Profile of donofsandiego

Dropable weapons are already in Coh2 but there are a mess, some squad squad pick a better version of the weapon (see Obers) some lesser (see ostruppen).

The suggestion is about creating a unified simple system that player can comprehend. This is a design issue how impactful it is a balance issue.

Eh honestly "unified simple system" lends itself better to simulator games and less to asymmetric balance.

Like I said, you could easily make it a "unified simple system" by having a base weapon profile with increased/ decreased accuracy, reload, c/d based on the recieving unit's "proficiency" value. Things like firing on the move can be a perk that is attributed to every top tier elite squad. But then you have issues with balance.

It's fine when every army has similar squad sizes and such like in MoW, but with a game like CoH you have imbalances in things like that that make fine tuning necessary.

You get to a point where you simplify the CoH out of CoH. I'm all for making these individual stats easier to read but too much astroturfing and removal of all scary RNG factors is going to make a game that is less enjoyable in general.

Dropping a weapon and not being able to pick it up usually happens when someone overstretches his troops.

From my point of view there is little wrong being punished for it.

A little bit like an overextended tank being abandoned and not being able to deal the final killing blow?

The only reason I know of that weapon drop RNG is accepted while abandon RNG is not is because weapon drops are less impactful while tank abandons are more so.

And yet you want to make weapon drops more impactful too? I don't understand.

Imo Squad should be separated into categories and have slot weapon receive bonuses or penalties accordingly.

I like the Men of War system where every unit has a set of stats for how well they handle a weapon.

For example, a "border militia" russian soldier (first tier infantry) has a "1" in accuracy to all weapons besides the one he's equipped with, the rifle, which is "2" (the number is a flat modifier to accuracy so it doesn't exactly translate but you get the idea)

Whereas the elite Marines troops have a "4" in accuracy to weapons besides the one they're trained on, which would be "5".

How could this be applied to CoH3? Weapon profiles could be slightly modified by a similar accuracy number. Say, riflemen are t1 infantry for example, and since something like panzergrenadiers come later maybe they are t2 infantry so they get a higher number.

EDITED: So basically it's the exact same weapon profile but with an increase to accuracy based on what "tier" of infantry it is and also how familiar they are with that style of weapon.

I.E. Shocktroops would probably be more accurate with an MP40 they picked up off the ground than Panserfusiliers would be, because Panzerfusiliers train with rifles and Shocktroops with SMGs. (This is just a hypothetical where panzerfusiliers and shocktroops have the same tier. Obviously this isn't true in game.)

then again again it would kinda suck to give USF another unit that only does its job when it's being fed a constant IV drip of munis. Why not make it a 5man squad and keep the fire on the move like commandos?

then remove Paras shooting M1919s on the move.

It's not consistent with other elite troops but then again paras DO have a 6 man squad with the Suppressive Fire ability.