Profile of Carlos Danger

Granatenwerfer change surprises me. So the obvious counter to Maxim spam just got nerfed?

Panzergrenadiers - Reinforce cost reduced by 10%

Unneeded change.

Conscript PPSH - Increase their mid and far range profile so the weapon itself is not an immediate downgrade in overall dps.
Mid accuracy increased from 0.23 to 0.43
Far accuracy increased from 0.115 to 0.2

Would have strongly preferred a different buff.

M1918 Browning automatic rifle - We are increasing the BAR rifle on the move accuracy and cooldown to promote more aggressive tactics when units are equipped with this weapon.

They were fine. USF was not, but the BAR was fine.

Bazookas - Small cost adjustment to bring the weapon in line with its performance.

Would have preferred a different buff.

OKW - All squad upgrades are able to be upgraded out of territory.

Er, why?

Fallschirmjäger - We are looking to minimize the heavy attrition cost of this unit.

Would have preferred a different buff.

Obersoldaten - We are looking to minimize the heavy attrition cost of this unit.

Would have preferred a different buff.

Relatively minor suggestion, but I think it would be an improvement if the Sd.Kfz 250 call-in vehicle arrived without any infantry inside of it and got a cost decrease to around 200 Manpower, 30 Fuel, and 5 Population (from 500/490 Manpower, 30 Fuel, and 11/14 Population). This would give Ostheer players a few more options, as the halftrack would be easier to call-in and could simply be filled with whatever infantry squad happens to be available.

Right now, the vehicle can't be called-in if the player has over 89 Population used up, and the call-in might be providing an infantry unit that the player doesn't necessarily want. Making it so that the vehicle arrives without any infantry inside of it would make the ability a bit more flexible.

I really don't understand what the purpose of the Ostheer Jaeger Light Infantry Upgrade is right now. It's a crappy upgrade for Panzer Grenadiers and it's not explicitly better than the LMG42 upgrade for regular Grenadiers, either. I get that it will outperform the LMG42 at close range and while moving, but a special commander upgrade should be doing a bit more than that. (And yeah, I know about the interrogation feature, but is that really that big a deal?) In their current iteration, the G43s are a redundant and rather underwhelming commander ability.

Same thing goes, I guess, for the Soviet PPSh Package, which seems pretty meh as well. I don't really use it (doesn't that says something right there), so it's hard for me to assess.

TL;DR. The Jaeger Light Infantry Upgrade needs to be changed so that it's more than a novelty alternative to the LMG42.

can't wait to see how it works, to not build a howitzer in the HQ area.

This change isn't going to do anything, IMO, especially in 2v2. I mean, it's really not that difficult or even particularly risky to build a howitzer a few meters outside of your base sector. This is coming from a guy who uses the LeFH-18 in about 75& of my 2v2 games (and about 50% of the time in 1v1).

First, a quick disclaimer so you know where I stand - I'm a mid-level, mostly Ostheer player and I play 1v1 and 2v2 games. Anyways, I'm finding myself up against Maxim spam in probably 75% of my games against Soviet players these days. I really, really dislike having to play against this strategy. It's not that I think it's too strong, but I find it rather boring to play against and dislike how a "support" weapon often makes up the bulk of the enemy force.

Even more than that, I'm often left feeling that even when I roll out the intended counters to the Maxims - mortars and snipers, for example - I'm not punishing the enemy player enough. Killing several Maxim team members never seems to really put much of a dent into the enemy player's economy.

So I did some math.

In both CoH1 and CoH2, the general rule for infantry reinforcement costs has been:

Squad cost / number of squad members / 2

This is not always true, but I believe it's the default rule, and it often holds true. For example, Conscripts cost 20MP to reinforce because 240MP / 6 / 2 = 20MP. Likewise, Grenadiers cost 30MP to reinforce because 240MP / 4 / 2 = 30MP.

Then we get to weapons teams. If we follow the rule above, Maxim teams should cost 20MP to reinforce. However, they actually cost just 15MP to reinforce. Likewise, the Soviet mortar should cost 20MP to reinforce, but it also costs just 15MP to reinforce.

Before I get accused of Axis bias, I checked the Ostheer weapon teams as well. The MG42's reinforcement cost, for example, should be 32.5MP (260MP / 4 / 2), but is actually a bargain 22MP to reinforce. The same thing goes for the Ostheer mortar, which should have a 30MP reinforce cost instead of a 22MP one.

What this does is create a situation where support weapons teams are more viable - at least in economic terms - than regular infantry units. As a result, we're seeing a lot of weapon team spam - as well as, in my opinion, some rather boring gameplay. Even more important, weapon team spammers aren't getting punished enough when their units die because crewmember reinforcement costs are lower than they should be.

So my balance solution is pretty simple: adjust squad reinforcement costs - for all factions - so that the rule listed above (squad cost / number of squad members / 2) holds true in most, if not all, circumstances. Obviously this wouldn't represent a monumental change, but I think it would be a move for the better and would push support weapons teams back into their intended support role.