Profile of Grumpy

Agreed until bold. But rifles are expensive for a reason. Their model per stats are superior to penals. Rifles sacrifice 1 model for 20mp to differantiate from penals. Giving them AT nade behind either/both LT or CPT for free can solve their problems vs Luchs/222 etc. But I relly doubt what to do with the now empty vet1 slot considering their godly other vet bonuses. Maybe split vet3 between vet1 and vet3 ?

I was comparing the cost of Rifles to Volk (or Grens for that matter).

Here is a comparison of the total vet bonuses. Explain why do Rifles cost 280 and Volks cost 250. Volks get much better accuracy, cooldown and reload bonuses for a worse RA bonus. Passive healing versus the ability to throw grenades slightly more often, especially when you have no munitions for grenades anyway?

Rifles Vet Bonuses:

Unlocks the 'Anti-Tank Rifle Grenade' ability
-38% received accuracy
-20% weapon cooldown
+30% accuracy
-50% ability recharge time
25% grenade range


Volks
-20% received accuracy
-40% weapon cooldown
+45% accuracy
Passive Healing,
+20% sight range,
-30% reload

Can you stop with this bullshit? OKW has free weapon upgrades and grenades and shwerer, OST has free weapon upgrades and grenades, if free officer is such a problem for USF, change it for free grenades and weapon upgrades. It will be a buff.

No, make Grenadiers and Volks have to get to vet 1 before they can snare, eliminate their current Vet 1 bonus, and make them have to pay for weapon racks and grenades. Also, no more upgrading in the field. Make them retreat and pick it up at the base. Do that and I'd gladly give up the free officer.

Also, since AT rifle nades have roughly a 40% chance to pen the front armor of a Panther or Tiger but Panzerfausts have about a 90% chance to pen a Sherman, the prices of the snares need adjusting. They shouldn't get this extra 50% free so the cost of the faust clearly needs to go up by 50%.

Is this ridiculous? Yes, almost as ridiculous as the interminable free officer response to every argument.

The LT tier and weapon racks are 200/35 plus 150/15 for a total of 350/50. Taking out the cost of the LT, the price would be 70/50. Adjust the cost to something like 100/40 which unlocks the weapon rack and gives USF the option to purchase the LT or MG's. Combine the captain tier with grenades and do the same. This would eliminate the power spike when the captain or LT hits the field. The tech time should probably be lowered for the tier unlocks and increased for the side vehicle unlock so that Stuarts or AA HT's don't arrive too early.

That's actually an interesting idea. I'm not sure about the price, but the concept could be worth looking into.

Finding the right price might be tricky, though. Too high, and it's a reduction in options, since rushing nades or LT-tier wouldn't be an option anymore, and too low, and it messes with teching too much (and gives too much for the price). My guess would be 100mp/45f, since it's only slightly off of what grenades + LT tech - LT would actually cost (70mp/50f).

I'm not really sure about the price either. Those were just suggestions. Both the price and the timing would need to be worked out. Right now there are a few options for the USF build order but outside of a few commanders most people will get 2-3 rifles and all of the officers. Removing the "free" squads would open up a lot of possibilities if done right. Also, the LT tier should probably come with the weapon racks so that it has more hand-held AT options.

While I like the direction of the changes to Rifle company, they're still not enough that most people would consider using it in anything beyond a 2v2. It would get a lot better if Time on Target was merged with the offmap Smoke. It would be a relatively easy change to make and would give them a howitzer counter, even if it is expensive.

A. Soldier's suggestion for the scoped rifle would've been much better than field defenses. Maybe it's beyond the scope of what they want to do in this patch but it would still be better.

I do think the all of the nerfs to the USF indirect fire units will make the faction even less competitive. By the time you get access to all the support weapons, you have around 40 pop cap in infantry. Add in a couple of support weapons and you're often left with pop cap for just two tanks or TD's. Now you're making a couple of the crutch units worse without compensating them in either pop cap or price. Also, the fire barrage from OST does wipe squads and team weapons on retreat, which seems like it should be considered at least as bad as an ability that just slows and damages but doesn't wipe units.

I think camo on the move should be taken out for all units.

The raketen got much better after the last changes they did to it (IIRC, they eliminated some of the colliding with terrain). However, I still have times when a vehicle will drive through a large part of the firing arc and the raketen won't fire. I don't know what stat affects this but I'd rather have it improved than getting a 5th man.