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Jump back to quoted post23 Jun 2017, 01:38 AMLoopDloop

Yeah. I feel like they trade a little more evenly at close range than volks in coh1 do though.

It's a cool idea, but I feel like there'd be no way to balance that in the lategame without scrapping the feel of the unit (as described by you) at that point. I mean, have fun trying to cap a contested vp in even 1v1 after 20 minutes.

Jump back to quoted post20 Jun 2017, 18:32 PMStrummingbird

Suggestion-

Fausts for Assault Grenadiers (with T1, like osttruppen)

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TLDR

• Assgrens are counterable by infantry play and are balanced in that regard with their cost and timing

• Additional weakness in lack of faust exposes assgren play to cheese in the early game and heavily disincentivizes them in the lategame (amongst other things)

• Giving them fausts would not significantly affect matchups to the point where assgren spam / cheese play becomes a problem [may need observation vs brits] and would make for more variety ingame

Single Shreck for Panzergrens

• GCS and 1v1 gameplay clearly shows the propensity for wehrmacht T1 units over pgrens in the anti-inf role. This is not necessarily due to T1 being overboard in strength, but rather due to the lack of niche for panzergrens in the wehr anti-inf roster.

• Grenadiers are almost always preferable [even when both T1 and T2 are present], with fausts, much, much lower initial cost, weapon upgrades (particularly G43) that allow the unit to punch above its reinforce cost]

• Snipers bleed no manpower and due to how important / impactful this unit is in the USF/UKF matchup and against soviet sniper, panzergrens really can't compete

• Single schreck would give the unit a niche in T2 as a 'safe' multirole purchase.

• Pgren blob / spam would neither be efficient nor uncounterable, given their high upfront cost, not-overly strong anti-inf performance, nerfed bundle nade and weakness of single shreck in coh2 due to vehicle mechanics with pushing and general high lethality[see current sturmpios for reference]. As such, Wehrmacht T1 + pak or stug would still be the more cost-efficient tier for specialized units, but panzergrens would offer a flexible alternative in a faction of specialists

Other suggestions (without reasoning, maybe later)
0CP Mortar Halftrack
Riegel mines able to be laid by pioneers and 222s