Profile of 12ocky

Yup doctrine choice is one of those cases where u need to draw the line between the underpowered and the underused.

It's very comparable to standard T1 start or for example 4ES strategy. If I'd give you a graph of that APF, you would see standard T1 start is a lot more used. BUT this doesn't mean 4ES strat is unviable or weaker than standard Rax start.

Infantry compliments very well with almost all builds and strategies that's why it's used often. Airborne has it's own specialties and Armor is about the lategame armored powerplay.

The bugfix on the M10 misfire is an indirect buff to Armor Company albeit very small. Other small buffs to US Armor could help aswell (plz price from tank depot from 350 to 300 again like in coho like in previous beta testing, maybe give some more potent vehicle veterancy etc ...)
Armor Company is a really strong doctrine in armor scenario's. If you want to buff it so it works in every scenario, it will mean it would be OP and picked over other doctrines regardless.

Btw anyone noticed how jeeps and bikes feel so good when chasing (AND TARGETING) snipers right now, even through enemy blobs of infantry? "Oh god Rocky you are so brilliant" Response: "Ye i'm gonna touch my own nipples now aw yea"

It still felt that snipers had a fairly large impact on the game Tommy and me played. As Wehr I still felt I was winning the mp war easily with my early sniper. And his dual snipers later, were just hurting the grenadiers a lot.
Well this is actually the way they should work, but I still feel they could use that last tweaking down by increasing their upkeep a little (it's more of a hidden nerf).

Besides that I would also give KCH a small buff for example. They are a natural lategame counter to the Sniper. But they are walking delicious XP points for riflemen, and if riflemen kill a couple of them they are vet 3 terminators before you know it. That's why I would lower the XP the death of a KCH grants.

On another note: just lower the research time of supply yard upgrade number 2. 90 seconds till it kicks in is truly truly outrageous. I'd also decrease time on demo charge. Can Le Aimstrong plz explain why he thinks it's so important to have a large timer on that thing.

I'm online in 15 mins, in Wellington Chat, if anybody wants a game...

First off: great work, really like the work you put into it.
I still have a slight issue with the mod itself: the "re-balancing".
I feel like the balance should not be touched too much. Stuff like Jeep/Bike priority is fine, the damage buff maybe too... Sherman smoke, who cares?! but fiddling around with the balance too much might be overdoing it.

I know, you probably don't want to change the game too much yourself, but i know that people (me too) tend to overdo stuff like this once they started, so just consider this a friendly reminder :-).

If somethings overdone/broken, it can be tuned down. Especially in a mod ... it's not a Relic balance patch. (or at least not yet.)

I know right, just some fantazy.

But having the officer in HQ at T3 while in T3 building should be a change. Right now, getting a officer is counterproductive.

We can still divide the officer production time, and let him in it's T3, but it will still be counterproductive and puma/stug spamm oriented with maybe some fast vets.

What if I'd like to hold on my T2 gren spamm but spamm gren faster ? What if I just want the officer to get T4 tanks faster ? What if I jsut want my vet faster ? => officer in HQ at T3

Hmm that's actually not a bad idea.

I don't really think the LMG is a problem. It's an extremely situational weapon that has its limited uses. vCoH's midgame balance is pretty good right now; I'd hate to change anything that impacts that balance unnecessarily.

I think improved Squad AI, or just removing it like Tommy proposes, would be the thing it needs. The guy with the LMG jumps around too many times. It's the most common problem. A guy with a Bren LMG almost never does this. Don't know why, but it's better.

The officer is one of those units that always seems to get mega buffs whenever people make 'fantasy' changelogs etc, but I'm not entirely convinced it needs to be buffed. It's just a not particularly useful unit in its very essence- a bit like an OP, except for manpower. Some people have used them successfully but in most games the build time modifier doesn't balance out the cost when you could just buy another unit. I might experiment with lowering his prop war ability but that's probably as far as it'll go.

Just make the manpower cost go down a bit; Maybe give back it's Sniper killing abilities; Reduce the cost of it's Arty barrage which never gets used; Prop war is probably the best ability the officer has, buff it and it's broken. Every time he'd just send that vet 3 riflesquad away for a cheap cost.