Profile of Cannonade

I think Relic really over complicated MG42 and Maxim by adding weird additional things like how many models the MG42 is firing at for determining its DPS and iirc, suppression rate + all kinds of range related complications.

Add to that reload timers, burst durations, complicated cover modifiers, DPS per burst and who knows what all else.

Its just a mess really. Makes it hard even for stat wizards to figure what is causing what, under what circumstances, and what effect changing one stat will have in relstion the enormous amount of other HMG specific mountain of stats there are + environmental and situational effects like cover, range, number of targets etc.

Meh...

As to Rnade and Molotov, I think both are in a reasonablem place atm. Sov teams can reasonably soak RNades thanks to unit size and dispersal, and Molotov still has its concrete area denial and crit rate if you can get close enough to apply it. Costs can be argued, but I think that is more a meta thing. Effect vs garrisons was a big problem, but building structure changes and aoe effects have largely corrected those.

I think part of Voltdarks and his crews issue with RNades, is actually a result of the rather necessary Gren heavy builds Ost invariably fields. Its somewhat ironic that Grens can infact counter their own counter (ie: maxims) at range with RNades, but that ultimately rests in the simple cold hard fact that Ost generally does not have any other infantry options to field except some specialised Doctrine callins.

Youll just have to get used to the fact, that Grens will cause some attrition on your Maxims. The price of war, so to speak. But instead of focusing on that as a negative, focus insyead on the fact that Ost is pumping Munitions into that for the exchange, and thereby limiting his other options. One Gren, with its Rnade, is not sufficient to reduce the Maxim to combat ineffectiveness. Even two will still leave a significant margin of Maxim effectiveness. So far, that is still cost efficient imo. If there are more Grens than that, then you will ofc need support, but you can feel "ok" about it because opponent will have dumped 3xRNade munitions into that engagement alone, for a MP drain on you that is not really that bad in comparison, providing you manage to pull the Maxim out before wiping. And, as others have pointed out, do not forget Merge. You can keep the Maxim on the field and fighting, again, as a function of you paying moderate MP as opposed to Ost paying Munitions at a higher equivalency.

Clowncar. Persistent thorn in the side of balance since forever.

Its been discussed many hundreds of times but still somehow manages to elude a unilateral solution.
Sort of quite an achievement really, and paradoxically speaks in favor of it actually being quite balanced, despite something smelling funny about it. Just can never quite seem to put your finger on what is causing it.

I think perhaps indirectly, one cause may be the inbuilt delay on Faust/ATNade effects on especially light vehicles with high speeds. Often, by the time the projectile hits, the vehicle is already well in retreat, and continues to roll at high speed despite being hit.

Perhaps change Faust/ATNades hit to cause an immediate de-acceleration on the vehicles? So it sort of "stops dead in its tracks" when hit, and has to reaccelerate at the reduced speed after the hit, from 0.
Sort of doesnt reflect the inertia it has IRL, but then again neither does Fausts/ATNades magically hitting their targets though they move out of range during the cast timers.

Result would make it easier to follow up on the light vehicle to finish it off, increasing their risk of close and open maneuvers a bit.

True but your not taking into account its no longer one unit in price nor performance. If this is included now you have a unit that costs much much more than the 221/222

I understand your point, but prefer to see it as you having actually two units which together synergise to a better performance than either part individually.

In that sense, there is no greater cost. You get exactly what you pay for as two units + their synergistic benefit essentially for "free".

Tbh I only very rarely see any vCoH references here on these boards, much less complaints that "why isn't coh2 like vCoH"

Some people occasionally wax nostalgic or bring up a specific comparison between the two in a (misguided) attempt to illustrate a point they might be making. But its benign, and just an attempt to communicate in a context they are familiar with. Thats it really though.

Dunno what the fuss is about.

5%. I've been unlucky as hell then.
Good thing I don't gamble.