Profile of Part time commie

It's really about the same, if you don't skip medic bunker.

40 medic + 40 conversion + 70 puma

50 + 120 + 70 for soviets.

Keeping in mind OKW fuel reduction and the delay between trucks coming onto the field and the timings are pretty close if both players rush for their respective vehicles.

Actually you don't even need the medic truc, you get all you need for a while in the first truck. and then go over to the mechanized. Don't forget that you also get an ability to scavange and turn ammunition into fuel. Which further shorten the time it takes.

Also consider that the soviet will either go Tier 1 or tier 2, and probably get molotov and/or AT nades. Plus if you play against OKW you WILL whant AT nades and most likely Tier 2 to beat those early armors. If you like tier 1, you are kinda screwed.

But what scares me as the russian isn't the Puma but the flaktrack, early games the soviets have no armor, the puma is a waste. But the flaktrack runs over your infantrie supported by his own infantrie which will then be uncontested.

Overall, my opinion on the OKW can be resumed to : Too soon.
ARs too soon, armor too soon ...

And having the AT gun come with crew would have to make the price of it WAY higher than is currently is - being able to drop an AT gun anywhere on the map for the same cost as purchasing one completely nullifies the point of building an AT gun. Making it the same price, but with a weaker AT gun like the M3 AT gun (the 37mm AT gun you guys were talking about) would be fine.

Having a big noisy plane that is destroyable that drops your stuff in a way they can still die and be spotted from miles away while costing ... 5CP? Shouldn't come with a premium of over 100MP. You have commadners that can call in units that fills in roles you don't have usually making them more versatile at no extra cost!

For those that are interested in the history of the strafs i took most of my information here : http://www.flamesofwar.com/hobby.aspx?art_id=874

The guys at battlefront usually do a pretty good job at researching. Also Pyl'cyn who was the commander of a straf company wrote a book about it, some of you might be interested in it.

Contrary to popular beliefs, these men were not bad soldiers, they were mostly ex-soldiers and convicts trying to clear their name. There also was some intellectual and other people who did nothing but that's something else. This could be represented in game by having each soldier with a random skill level assigned to him.

As for creating some suicidalish i believe it could be achived by creating some sort of paradox. Giving the unit some tools that are good at one thing only, but not all of them. Like low armor, PPSH only, satchel and flame-throwers. If the commander also lack part of the support necessery for the assault, they become pretty suicidal. Having to get upclose and personal with only part of the necessery equipment for it.

And as everyone said, Strelkovy please.

Edit: the book Pyl'cyn wrote was "Penalty Strike"

Soviets need this unit, but its going to be a bit strange having penal troops be one of the more elite and well equipped of the soviet infantry... its extremely odd that they are a stock unit, and i kind of like the idea to simply change it in order to make it easier to design a scaleable unit.

I like it too, we could just make an original Penal Batallion commander with the unit and give them PPSHs and low armor.

I think the idea is that you call the airborne in next to a beacon, allowing you to crew the gun if you landed out of combat, then reinforce the crewing squad. I feel like the airborne commander should put the 37mm gun in, then allow that AT gun to spawn with a crew, for the same price as the 57mm without crew. I think the gun itself should be similar to the soviet 45mm AT gun, fast rate of fire with low penetration. Another change I believe should be added is a slightly lower cost for any units being para-dropped. I don't think the opportunity cost is worth the chance of the squad being spotted as its coming in and losing members due to a random outhouse. 390mp for a para squad is a bit excessive, as the squad itself is only marginally better than base rifles unupgraded.

When you take the beacon into consideration, this means you add another 290MP unit that you had to infiltrate just to have your very generic 390 MP unit be at full strenght while crewing it's uncrewed fully priced gun. See how the cost starts to add up pretty quickly for nothing very special?
Also if you have to refill your squad after drop and then buy them an upgrade, that's one hell of a long time to be at full fighting strenght in a small and fast game like this one. Giving your oponent plenty of time to find you and flush you out.

For the gun i am fine with the 57mm, just make it crewed on the drop. It's too much of a flaw for the job we need to accomplish to be taken.