Profile of achpawel

The allied lights as other pointed out. Dont get almost an all in one light. The 251 does more and can go clowncar 2000 and still lay mines and have doctrinal get out off jail smoke. It will be far more relevant then the sov clow car ever will, it just arrives later but earlier then the m5 but is much more ussefull and more powerfull.

You cant have it all. The 251 is fine as is.

I don't think so. It is allies lights that can go crazy all around dealing with both infantry AND armoured vehicles. Flak truck usually makes U retreat, does not really snipe models. It is also quite expensive. Rarely a good investment for most players.

You can't have it all. Well, did U mean t70, Valentine, AEC? What I mean is a slight armour buff so that allies need to counter it with some proper AT instead having a possibility to add damage from small arms which changesg number of AT shots required

i would just take the current system and expand it to be more complex, while retaining the same logics we have now. Those are mines always crit and snares only apply crits based on HP. What i would add, is that different type of vehicles (car, light, med, adv. med, heavy, super heavy) having different crit thresholds and expand on the type and power of effects we currently have.

Yeah. I completely agree here. I would love to see sth like this. My version of it would be:

Universal mine - damage to vehicles and infantry but engine crit only to lights. Hp damage to medimus but crit engine only to damaged mediums (like snare now). Heavy tanks should get hp damage plus get snared with them only after like 20% health was depleted earlier.

Heavy at mine (riegel, teller, USF armoured car) - like above but mediums and heavy tanks get the engine crit even full health.

Snares - need 20% threshold to crit engine on heavy tanks.

On top of that I'd like some more rng added so that belo thresholds for crits there is some randomness and not 100% chance to deal the crit. The less health the higher chance for the crit but I would like to see say some randomness such as starting with 60% chance and increasing the chance 10% for every 10% of health less.

I would add some to the above. Only sweeper units can enter the minefield/walk over mines. Other units get hit by opponent's mines even if they see them. Mines are supposed to slow U down. A player could sweep them or shoot them with bigger guns when spotted but some micro would be required. You wouldn't be able to walk all over them before they are sweeped or detonated.

I'd add some ability to build heavy AT mines to Soviet and OKW in anti tank commanders/doctrines.

Its either in a support role where it's armour doesn't matter or it's a flamer where at its timing focus fire absolutely should give it a bit of down time. The clown car issue is one of its own and irrelevant in this discussion, but since it's being compared, the 251 does more than the Scout Car. It can heal, it can reinforce, it can lay mines and it can be upgraded into the scourge of cover like nothing else in that timing all by itself. That's without taking into doctrines where it can also get escape smoke or even turn invisible and detect infantry (while still being able to reinforce and heal). It's got enough going on that it doesn't need to be bulletproof as well

Yes all true yet it is axis lights that are non existent imo and just scale terribly. Since it is only ai specialist and is absolutely hard countered by lights from allies it could be just immune to small arms. Allies lights can usually deal with both infantry and armour. I believe that a flame halftrack should be just more of a counter to infantry without hand held at. An allied player should be forced to buy/call in some hand held at units, lure it into mine, build an AT gun. Right now it can be fend off and forced to repair by just regular infantry. All abilities it has are just sort of let's buff the unit but just let's make sure it isn't lethal. Aec, which has similar timing, is so much more deadly and scales so much better. Same for most other allies light vehicles. They just can't be damaged by small arms unless these are sort of 0 tier very cheap ultra lights such as jeep (which I feel is similarly resilient and costs no fuel, has crew etc)

We're playing a game where it takes 4 direct hits with a 2cm auto cannon to kill a person and if they only take 3 they can run and climb and shoot fine. Balance takes priority. What's more, you have to try really hard to lose a 251 to small arms but it helps keep the FHT manageable

I'd say not really that difficult. You have to retreat it more often before it has as much impact as a clowncar with a flame CE. IMO it should be much better than a clowncar - right now it is not that significantly better.

Generally I find the game punishes aggression too much, in contrast to what apparently happened in that game. You will hear more good players and casters yelling "don't overextend, don't get greedy" and pointing out stupidity in that regard than people yelling "Push, you idiot," as Hans apparently failed to do (haven't seen that game). It's for a good reason.

In my opinion the flaw in game design that makes this so is that snares are far too widespread and effective. I'd rather see armor be more expensive and more effective than they way the game has been designed.

I agree with the snare bit a lot. IMO snares should have a chance to inflict the crit but not guarantee it (coh1). Also snare abilities on vehicles and snipers should be removed/reworked. Vehicle/sniper snares could temporarily damage the vision/block the gun but should never crit engine. Also general purpose mines should have a chance to crit engine, not guarantee it (heavy AT mines is another story). A universal mine should only damage health of a full health vehicle just like the snare, not crit a full healthy vehicle. Probably the engine crit chance threshold should be higher the less healthy a vehicle.