Profile of achpawel

I’m just trying to get discussion going about how to make them more interesting.
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What I’m trying to do is suggest things that could make the game more interesting both gameplay wise and thematically. At the moment REs are a rather bland platform for minesweepers and Bazookas.
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Rear Echelons aren’t bad, they’re just kinda stupid.

True - but it is all because of what I would call "rambo" style game development since the introduction of USK and OKW and later UKF followed the pattern. They movey away too far from the original paper/scisors/stone idea.

I would come back quickly to the idea that either you are an engineer or a combat unit. Engineer units should be best at repairing and supporting while other units should be good at fighting but bad support. USF broke this rule with their too OP vehicle crews and OKW with sturmpio avaliable from tier 0. Horrible idea. Crews, for example, are better at repairing than regular engineer units. OKW sturmpios imo were better than ostheer panzergrens when they were introduced. Just gross.

Quick solution:
Crit repairs should be, for example, moved only to engineer units, repairs should be quicker when performed by engineer units than by crews, etc. This alone would make echelons better. It would lead to players making tactical desicions such as - do I build another infantry squad to have raw killing power or maybe invest into a weaker engineer unit but will be able to support vehicles and fighting units better? Engineers should be squishy to make sure that combat units are a real threat to them. All this should be restored asap into the game. There could be like maybe one unit that is an exception from it, but not like echelons that are useless becuse free crews took over their job, or sturmpios killing all t0 units and being able to repair, mine, etc.

its a premium medium first not a tank destroyer...

It is an awkward TD with added mg. It should engage tanks long range and ram infantry as mgs are only somewhat effective close range. A bit like flying cow - not much sense unless only to prove that high price is justified

it also wins any engagement with allied TDs provided they dont begin to run... no its armor may not bounce allied TD rounds but its large HP pool and high speed means it can duel with allied TDs cost effectively in good hands... in bad hands yeah its gonna lose... but moreso for the allied TDs

Well, a big nope from me. If allied player can kite, panther will be lured into a snare, at, or mine. Panther wins only in isolation or when alled player blunders.

and dont forget that the panther as a premium medium can actually do damage vs infantry... allied TDs cant do that...

Close range only, which makes it rather pathetic - running a tier 4 expensive tank with 50 ammo added to it just to try to crush infantry and hope for some dmg from mgs. Compare to similarily priced comet. It would be so much better to have so HE rounds on the main gun.

There isn't a faction in the game that can choose between a Jackson and a Panther.

The Panther competes with the JPIV and the Panzer IV, the Jackson competes with the Sherman and the Scott.


As for the Panther/Jackson matchup, the Panther's armour doesn't do much, no.

What does do a lot for it is its extra HP: it kills a Jackson in four hits whereas a Jackson kills a Panther in six.

In a head to head battle, the Panther has a slight edge.

But the problem is that withvpanther you have to dive. M36 will shoot first and kite drawing you into mines, at guns, at hand held at and snares. So range, mobility, accuracy far, penetration, and repairs together with being cheaper make the matchup much less likely in panther's favour. IMO panther should become a premium medium generalist tank. It should probably be the best of mediums but also most expensive. Stug should be main 60 range at. Panther should be more like 50 range medium with decent penetration but rather a flanker but logical anty infantry performance. It should have two kinds of ammunition maybe.

If you want 60 range Stug, it will have to get a cost and performance increase to be a JPIV 2.0 or it would be made to be as obsolete in current meta Su76 with 120dmg and high rof.

Let's be realistic and suggest things that can actually be implemented and are reasonable to be made, instead of playing victim about how X faction doesn't have Y feature. Because that's a game which all factions can play.

The comparisons should never be "Allies vs OH", rather than each specific allied faction vs OH if that's the comparison you want to bring up.

Well, it could be another su-76, with a bit better at performance. Su has barrage and would be cheaper and comes earlier.

I don't get the victim card comment. I just feel that buffing the rifles, allied heavies, not nerfing the jackson (5 fuel is laughable), simply means that "wehr weak penetration" could be sth that only sounds crazy but describes well the general balance between the tanks we have now. Allied tanks sort of "pretend" to be weak but whan you look at their battlefield performance it is not the case.

Yes good points all around. Certain attributes are more determinstic than others for certain roles

But i still go for heat ap ammo as a vet bonus for the 3 wehr tanks.

It is a tested out come, easy to implement and a mixture of vipper selectable ammo idea.

Not a bad idea - yet it may simply be too powerful. Still all depends on "how" rather than "what".