Profile of LemonJuice

having played with and against infantry, it seems like a pretty viable commander now, its actually pretty fun to play it. might need some very very very slight tuning down, maybe remove one of the 10% bonuses that the veteran sergeant gives, probably the 10% recieved accuracy, or increase the a little bit.
stormtroopers are quite good, and extremely annoying to deal with.

nkvd seems a little underwhelming right now. only played against it, but i didnt really feel much of an impact from the doctrine.

elite armored is pretty strong, minus the sturmtiger. the vehicle crew repairs might need adjustment, either in cost or amount repaired. currently it repairs too much for too little. not really sure what the sturmtigers role is at the moment, if its supposed to be a powerful squad wiper its definitely not doing its job. making it mutually exclusive with KT was good (doesnt really mean much since both are pretty bad atm), but it would be nice to see an increase to cost, increase in combat effectiveness, and maybe an armor decrease.

mechanised seems like middle of the line i nterms of effectiveness. not really sure how i feel about the jeep, it seems really flimsy and it becomes combat effective around the time that its counters hit the field (raketen, faust). usf early game needs as many combat effective units as possible because of how strong sturms and mg42s are, so it kinda feels like a trap almost. wondering if making it come with a similar MG as a UC would be too much. the HVAP shermans are actually ok in terms of armor piercing, two actually pose a significant threat to most axis armor. they still have the range of a medium tank so theyre not true tank destroyers. does the hvap have a penalty against infantry? also, felt like that cavalry riflemen took forever to reinforce, might just be me tho.

I'm worried primarily about PzGren package being lumped in. However, I feel that it can be salvaged by giving utility to squads already affected by Veteran Squad Leaders.

I'm all for making the G43 transferrable rather than a 10% upgrade to accuracy. I think it needs to be said that the goal should not be to make something that can compete with the MG42 or G43 package in DPS, just as how MP40s for Volks shouldn't be competing with StG44s for DPS. Besides, the extra man boosts DPS by 20% already, plus you can potentially still pick up slot weapons. It should by all accounts be less DPS but more utility and survivability. The commander already adds a 25% timed accuracy boosts as well via Assault and Hold, which is basically better OKW Breakthrough as-is. Adding too much value just makes it a no-brainer upgrade.

Basically what I'm trying to say is that I'm worried it's a no-brainer upgrade right now because it has good DPS upgrade and good durability upgrade but doesn't have any flavor. A utility-focused approach instead of raw DPS is something that Wehr doesn't currently have, is flavorful and thematic, and synergizes well with (and adds skill elements to) the new Assault and Hold.

That said utility NEEDS to translate into killing power or else this doctrine won’t see a lot of play. What’s the point of having mainline Infantry that can’t kill anything and instead gets killed by everything else short of engineer units. Why not just go ostruppen for 6 men AND an lmg down the line. Mp40 Volks will beat stg volks at short range. There is a range where they excel over their counterpart. 5 man gren squads currently do not beat lmg greens at any range. You’re sacrificing wiping power and manpower bleed on the opponent for what?

Cavalry riflemen currently are really strong, their thompson upgrade comes very quickly, and lets them vet up quite quickly. having a combination of covering fire, AT satchel, and smoke seems a little too powerful imo. penals are balanced around the fact that they lose a lot of anti-infantry power when they get their at satchels, however cavalry riflemen are good at both anti-infantry, and offer a powerful AT deterrence, AND has smoke utility, AND can negate high value squads, such as obers, with covering fire.

german infantry doc seems in a weird spot right now, imo it doesnt actually offer anything that would make you want to choose infantry over any other meta commander at the moment.
halftrack - from the gameplay ive seen, it seems to be ok, offers a new strategic option in the early game.
5 man squads - this upgrade imo is actually a huge trap. the dps you lose out on from not going the lmg42 is huge, and lmg42 grens will actually beat 5 men grens at pretty much every range. the only real use for this is actually 5 men pios with flamers. you get a fairly beefy squad and at vet 2 having 5 men with fast repairs is actually pretty good.
stormtroopers - theyre ok, but not game changing like commandos are. their dps output seems good. would be interesting for them to have a faster cap rate or faster base movement speed, but might be a little out of place. also sucks they dont have faust.
tactical movement - fairly underrated imo, but at the same time its a mediocre ability.
frag bomb - the late game option in the doctrine is probably my favorite ostheer muni dump, counters weapon teams and howitzers.

so what it turns into is that 4/5 abilities are fairly mediocre, and not particularly gamechanging. for example, jaeger armor has several amazing abilities: spotting scopes, stuka dive bomb, recon, and elefant. assault support: opel blitz, cheap strafe loiter, frag bomb, tiger, etc etc

if completely switching out abilities is out of the question, some pretty significant changes need to happen to the current ones to make it viable.
5man - maybe have the upgrade give passive healing, increased veterancy gain, decreases reinforce cost, just straight up improves accuracy, caps faster, or gives them sort of ability. there just really isnt a reason to go 5 men grens over lmg grens at the moment, and more often than not is a bad choice becausue youre gonna be reinforcing more. the name of the doctrine is german infantry, and if the premiere ability sucks it would be a shame.
stormtroopers - no changes, maybe faust instead of booby trap.
tactical movement - would be nice to change this ability out for something more powerful in the lategame? not sure what though. lefh maybe, or maybe that incindieary mortar barrage the urban warfare wehr commander used to have, even the pin loiter would be good.

the defensive doctrine kinda suffers from the same problems imo. it doesnt particularly offer anything game changingly powerful to make it attractive over other doctrines. ostruppen offer a new strategic option, but the stugE from my experience seems fairly weak. the concrete bunkers arent particularly impressive imo. repair stations are welcome, but it seems the allied variants are better, soviets are cheaper, and the advanced emplacements repair station also offers reinforcing. sector artillery is actually pretty good now imo, depending on the map it can cover huge portions of the frontline, and its not limited in how many shells drop, like the royal artillery doctrines sector artillery is.

go any commander with an il2 bombing run and have an ally recon for you.

Regarding partisans mentioned before, after 250 halftrack was brought back to life, it kinda became obvious underwhelming or useless units are put into commander slots to rework them.
There probably no other unit aside of 250 halftrack that deserves rework as much as partisans do, they also fit into NKVD doctrine as infiltration unit

Currently they are essentialy a 4-man PPSh conscript squad with a grenade. In a faction where every combat squad consists of 6 men they have neither DPS nor survivability to do anything on the field.
You might as well let them die after they infiltrate as there is no point in keeping them around, even using them as an ambush unit is pointless as they lose to mainline infantries anyway

If they spawned with 4 men and then can be reinforced to 6 and got sprint as ability they could at least play the same role assault grenadiers do now

out of scope, and partisans arent supposed to beat mainline infantry in a head on fight anyways.