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Thread: Commander/Doctrine Suggestions for Change and Hope16 May 2016, 21:24 PM Jump back to quoted post16 May 2016, 21:13 PMTiger Baron Forget about pre-vetted units for the Mech call ins for the Wehrmacht, just give the 250 the ability to reinforce already and an upgrade for an MG34/42 already to justify it's fuel price instead of doing the stupid vet gimmicks again and Relic and everybody else crying about it later on, give the AA mobile repair station upgrade to the M3/M5 Half-track call in for the USF, there, problem solved. Well, for some reason, you can get main gun criticals on the 250 for some reason, so a gunner on top could work... But Reinforce for the 250? nah B. that's too much they could reduce the fuel by 5. M3 Half-Track Repair Upgrade could work, but I feel Pre-Vet 1 Unit inside the vehicle is the easiest and most effective route, Your getting early game units in the mid game with a fuel cost and a pretty weak vehicle, the Vet 1 easily justifies the mid-game entry and the fuel cost. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander/Doctrine Suggestions for Change and Hope16 May 2016, 15:21 PM Jump back to quoted post16 May 2016, 11:33 AMHikuran Relic now remove all vet units call-ins, so I don't think that's possible to call in Vet 1 Assault Engins The problem with the preivious pre-vetted call-ins were that they came in really early (OCP Vetted reefermen and about 2CP vet 3 grens in terms of income) The difference with these mechanized call-ins are that they: 1)Come in at CP3-4, so it's pretty late in the early game 2)Cost A quite a bit (30 fuel for a 250 halftrack) 3)That fact it comes with a vehicle which unless its the USF 1, has no attack at all. unless.... But I understand the concerns, I hated seeing vet 1 reefermen 1 minute into the game. (although the flamer change to RE was too much in my eyes, but that's a different story.) In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander/Doctrine Suggestions for Change and Hope16 May 2016, 11:05 AM Jump back to quoted post16 May 2016, 09:03 AMSvanh Here's your regularly scheduled testing mod. Have fun! Some specifics: The M42 retains its original accuracy values (which are slightly higher than the T-70's) The retreat point that is supposed to be on the Forward Supply Station doesn't seem to be working I changed the Mechanised Assault Group Grenadiers to have the same vet bonuses as standard Grens The WC51 crew now have a BAR and 0.8 starting target size The 20 munition upgrade multiplies penetration by 3 (from 3/2/1 to 9/6/3) and burst ROF by 1.5 (from 8 to 12) I couldn't change the bail-out time of vehicle crews with vet so they receive a 50% repair speed boost at vet 4 and no longer have repair penalties at vet 5 While you can see all five vet stars on vehicle crews, they must have the upgrade to gain experience past vet 3 I reverted the armour nerf on advanced fortifications (from +10 to +45) I reduced the number of auto-engineers on the forward assembly from 4 to 2 I took the third option with assault guards Holy Smokes, Thank you once again Svanh! In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Partysons interfering with the design and pacing of the game15 May 2016, 22:44 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2016, 22:27 PMFalseAlarm Look mate, before raging like that again you might think about reading things thoroughly before going mad. There was zero hostility in my post and it was far from being a post-loss rage/grieving. Let's exchange some ideas will ya? Would you like it if JLI jumped out with their camos active or STs were already equipped with shrecks/STGs etc Well I don't like JLI popping out of a building and insta-gibbing my retreating vet 3 reefermen with 20 HP because they can snipe units with less than 60% HP. Jump back to quoted post15 May 2016, 22:37 PMKatitof I wonder if there is a single allied unit that doesn't make falsealarm run behind moms dress... Rear Echleons? Wait, I remember the Volley Fire.... Ambulance? In: Lobby
Thread: Partysons interfering with the design and pacing of the game15 May 2016, 21:57 PM Don't AT Protians die like flies to any type of infantry? The only nerf I can agree with though is that they should spawn with their AT grenade on cooldown. In: Lobby
Thread: Commander/Doctrine Suggestions for Change and Hope15 May 2016, 20:39 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2016, 20:18 PMAdviser And what about soviet assault group from lend-lize tactics? I remember I did a thread about them awhile ago, I'll just paste it right here: When Lend-Lease first came out, the Assault Guard/ M5 Half-Track combo made sense. it provided a nice T1/T4 play, skipping T2 and T3. But this is the current year, and the soviet teching has changed, and why get the M5 Halftrack/Assault Guards when you can just get the regular M5 Halftrack by itself and possibly earlier than the 5CP requirement of the call-in? This can be solved in a number of ways: SOLUTION 1 -Reduce CP requirement to 4 CP -Replace the M5 Halftrack callin with a special M5 Munitions Halftrack that act like the Brit's M3 truck by dropping LMG and PTRS goodies to fellow comrades. SOLUTION 2 -Lower the CP requirement to 3CP -Replace M5 Halftrack with the Clown car, keep the assault guards that come with it at 370 Manpower, 15 fuel. SOLUTION 3 -Lower CP requirement to 2CP -Just have only the Assault Guards come out at 300 Manpower ASSAULT GUARDS IN GENERAL The unit itself doesn't make any sense at all. it overlaps both penals and shock troops, but lack the cheapness of the penals or the durability of the shocks, and also comes out waaaaaaaaaay too late to be of any use. so I would recommend the 2nd or 3rd solution. but regardless of which solution is chosen, I would like the following changes effect the Assault Guards: Renamed to Lend-Lease Guards All 6 men carry SVTs Can either get 4 Thompsons or 2 Bazookas as upgrades (Both cost 75 Munitions each) With these changes, it better reflect the Lend-Lease Doctrine by having zookas and tommy guns, and makes the Lend-Lease Guards more of a unique role of choosing either full on AT or AI. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander/Doctrine Suggestions for Change and Hope15 May 2016, 18:56 PM Jump back to quoted post15 May 2016, 18:28 PMEarth And what about the Mobile Assault Regiment, Land Mattresses rule 2v2+ while you suggest commisars for Soviets, let's try to fix what's broken then we'll think about the rest. The Land Mattress is getting nerfed in the preview by coming 3 CPs later. If I had to nerf it even more, I would make it only have a crew of 3 instead of 4. Also, the Commissars for Soviets is to buff 2 Commanders that really never see that much use compared to many others. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Commander/Doctrine Suggestions for Change and Hope15 May 2016, 18:05 PM We all know that there are more than enough commanders that are pretty much useless, too situational, complained to uselessness, ect. But enough about the past (mostly). We need to fix this mess, or at the very least give some much needed light. All but of the ideas given are specifically targeted to buffing, merging, adding, and improving unused commanders abilities and units. And Oh Boy! more Text Walls incoming! Most of these changes were implemented in a mod by Svanh Here SOVIETS Tank Traps, PMD6 Anti Personnel Mines, and PMD6M Anti Light Tank Mines Affects: Tank Hunter Tactics and Defensive Tactics Merged together into one ability: Field Defenses 2CP: Field Defenses (Allows Conscripts and Combat Engineers to build cheap and quick to place anti-personnel and vehicle disabling mines, Combat Engineers can also build tank traps.) (Why can OKW can build tank traps, flak emplacements, and Trenches in one ability, while the Soviets have to waste 2 separate slots for mines and traps? It merging time) Hold the Line! (From Unused Not Step Back Tactics) Affects: Defensive Tactics Added to Defensive Tactics (Can be balanced anyway you want, but it's a great defensive-esque ability for a supposed defensive commander) Commissar (From Unused Not Step Back Tactics), Hit the Dirt! Affects: Conscript Support Tactics, Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics You know what, I'm already tired from typing, here, have a graphic: (Commissars can be balanced anyway you want, I'd personally prefer if it gets vet. but it provides an indirect buff to conscripts and guards, and a much better use of a commander ability slot. If wanted, Conscripts could get 2 vet abilities in vet 1 by putting the flare mines in that same build menu with the sandbags. providing even more versatility.) M42 AT (Aggressive Tickling) Gun Affects: Defensive Tactics, Urban Defense New Ability: Canister Shot (Same as Greyhound) Stats Rebalanced to be more like a T70 as an AT gun, maybe with abit more pen. but a damage nerf to 65 from 80 against infantry (also a damage bonus of 15 vs. vehicles) (No matter how you put it, the ZIS completely out classes the M42 in nearly every way except firing rate. So my idea (combined and influenced by others) is to make it more AI than AT, still deterring light vehicles and some mediums, while being useful against infantry. the Damage nerf is to prevent one shotting of infantry) Forward Headquarters Affects: Urban Defense Tactics Fuel Cost reduced to 45, Manpower Cost increased to 350 (After the Soviet Tech changes, Urban Defense became obsolete, as the 60 fuel cost means the FHQ rush would come in too late. the price changes pushes the FHQ rush earlier, while still giving the enemy time to prepare, and the increased manpower cost makes it slightly harder to pull off the FHQ rush without proper support.) Vehicle Detection Affects: Alot of Commanders Munition cost reduced by half. (I can't think of anything else, I'm sorry) WEHRMACHT Defensive Fortifications and Trenches Affects: (Pr)Osttruppen Doctrine, Defensive Doctrine Merged together into one ability: Defensive Fortifications 2CP: Defensive Fortifications (Infantry can now build trenches, Pioneers can also build tanks traps.) (Once again, 2 different abilities to build 2 basic things? merge!) Forward Supply Station (From Unused Urban Assault Doctrine) Affects: Defensive Doctrine Added to Defensive Doctrine (Makes the Defensive Doctrine more defensive, and don't worry about FSS rushing, unlike the FHQ, it provides pioneers and a forward retreat point instead of medics and offensive buffs. Even then, it can be balanced to your own desires.) Mechanized Groups (LMG grens and Pgrens) Affects: Mechanized Assault Doctrine, Mechanized Doctrine Infantry inside the half-track now start with vet 1 (b-b-b-b-b-b-b-bb-bbb-b-b-bb-b--but Grittle! Yu cat guve fre vet leik that!!!!! Well, considering it comes at 3CP AND it costs quite abit of fuel (30-40 last time I checked) , I think these units should come pre-vetted at vet 1 at the very least. Same should apply to the Combat Engies in the USF Mechanized Company too.) USF WC51 w/ .50 cal. Affects: Mechanized Company Renamed to WC51 w/ .30 Cal. Add 20 Munitions upgrade for a .50 Cal MG, renaming it back to original name and increased attack power and penetration Increase Health from 180 to 200 WC51 Crew bail out during combat reduced from 3 seconds to 1 seconds WC51 Crew comes with a free BAR and slightly more durability than a normal vehicle crew (Could be renamed to Assault Crew) (Gives WC51 more scaling, and provides more incentives to push in more aggressively. AND gives it a reason to why it costs 20 fuel!) M3 Assault Group Affects: Mechanized Company Infantry inside the half-track now start with vet 1 (See Mechanized Group Changes in the Wehrmacht section for more info) Assault Engineers Affects: Mechanized Company, Armor Company Vet 2 now provides an extra man (Not my original idea, but has been suggested and said many times. Assault Engies are too squishy late game, the vet bonus solves that.) Elite Vehicle Crews Affects: Armor Company Now makes all vehicle crews the ability to get to Vet 5 Vet 4 Bonus: Faster Repair, more durability out in the field. Vet 5 Bonus: Vehicle Bailout during combat reduced to 2 seconds. (Nice little bonus, not that USF vehicles can survive long enough for the crews to reach vet 5...) Riflemen Flares and Rear Echleon Flamers Affects: Rifle Company Merged together into one ability: Incendiary Training 0CP: Incendiary Training (Rifleman can now fire flares to reveal the area, Rear Echleons can now use Flamethrowers) (Atleast Soviets get flares through experience, Reefermen seem to waste an entire ability slot for flares.) Combined Arms Affects: Rifle Company, Heavy Calavary Company Munitions Cost reduced to 80 Added to Rifle Company (It was too expensive, and now Rifle Company is a little back to its former glory.) Fired Up Affects: Rifle Company CP cost reduced to 0 (Why was it at 2CP anyways? its just a sprint with a negative after effect.) OKW Flame Hezter Affects: Firestorm Doctrine Substantially Reduce Vet Requirements Reduce CP requirement by 1 (Why is the darn thing so hard to vet?) UKF Advanced Emplacement Regiment (Excluding the Counter-Battery)For the May Balance Preview Affects: Advanced Emplacement Regiment Tone Down Advanced Fortifications Nerfs by 25% Tone down Defensive Operations by like 1/2, okay? (Holy Crackle Dackle, I hate yet to see more QQ about anything but this commander. But I understand, massed emplacements=no fun. But these nerfs are too extreme. Except for Counter-Battery, That was utterly and truly stupid and unbalance for the most part, but I do see why it was like that (Either arty or build units).) -------------------------------------------------------------- Okay all done for now, is good? In: COH2 Balance
Thread: The mortar pit solutions suggested by the fans12 May 2016, 23:59 PM Jump back to quoted post12 May 2016, 23:43 PMDomine Everything in the game can be destroyed, countered etc. Doesn't mean it's feasible or balanced. 2 Mortars (520 Manpower, more mobility) 1 Mortar Halftrack (240 manpower, 30 fuel? More Mobility) Panzerwerfer (300 Manpower, 85 fuel?, more Mobility) Walking Stuka (300 manpower, 100 Fuel?, more mobility) Any type of fire damage (Between 30 munitions and the flame hezter) 2 Support Guns (~600 Manpower, some mobility) Jagdtiger (Overkill but long range, but 700 Manpower, 280 Fuel?, can also kill tanks) Many Off map arty/abilities (Various costs in munitions) That is alot of counters, and I bet there's more. In: COH2 Balance
Thread: Railway Arty11 May 2016, 18:56 PM Jump back to quoted post11 May 2016, 18:33 PMCartoonVillain Railway arty is terrible anyway. The least it can do is wreck some base buildings. Yeah, Railway arty should be 1 big blast in the middle with "falling debris" (AKA a few light arty barrages) after effect. In: COH2 Balance