Profile of Vuther

The big difference between zook and shrecks is the burst damage. No one is gonna sit and eat constant damage from handheld AT. The most important thing comes from the damage from the first or 2nd volley.

...and if anyone needs it spelled out for them, Schrecks tend to have more of that which will generally make them more effective.

If you balance the game from the top down, the rest will inherently be balanced because any perceived imbalances at lower levels are, almost always, rooted in a lack of some form of skill. Not trying to offend anyone, but that is just the way it is.

At lower levels you can overcome "imbalances" by playing better, but at the highest echelon of play this is not possible because the skill difference is too marginal.

If the highest levels of play perceives a balance issue, it's probably imbalanced.

If only the lower levels of play perceive a balance issue, it's probably a gameplay design problem.

Gosh, I thought Vindi was quite a good player, but he turned out to be quite an arrogant guy :/

Why can't an individual be both?

maybe its time to add in increased health to gren thru vet, rather than recieved accuracy.

this will help them with aoe weapons, models dont die to 1 shots from aoe weapons yet still share the same effective hp as recieved accuracy.

I'd doubt that'd be easy to get working smoothly, all small arms are balanced around their targets usually being 80 health. There'd probably be many edge cases where certain small arms suffer against that health increase significantly more.

For example, let's put the 23% received accuracy bonus for Grens directly into health and each model goes from 80 health to 99 (98.4 rounded up) health. Any small arms that do 16 damage per hit (such as Conscripts' Mosins) go from being able to kill Grens in 5 shots to 7 shots, effectively increasing the amount of hits needed for the weapon to kill Grens by 40%. For another example, small arms that do 5 damage per hit (such as Paratroopers' Thompsons) go from being able to kill Grens in 16 shots to 20 shots, effectively increasing the amount of hits needed for the weapon to kill Grens by a much smaller 25%.

HMG34 is a cheap heavy machine gun unit (which has a high target size for infantry like other weapon teams, meaning bullets are more likely to hit them) that requires setting up and suppresses infantry, but is only barely able to kill them, generally enforcing it have amble quantities of support nearby to take care of that for them. Get them to control enemy infantry's movements and slow blobs - be sure to make use of its low cost by getting more of other units around it to cover it (or just more HMG34s) and kill what it suppresses.

Obers are an expensive mobile infantry unit that are specialized in killing infantry at long-range. With their LMG34 upgrade and low target size (meaning bullets are less likely to hit them), they are nearly outmatched in that regard, but their expensive cost means it is important to keep them away from vehicles which they are nigh helpless against. Get them to kill infantry, especially from a defensive heavy cover position surrounding open ground to enforce approaches against them will be very costly. Their smoke grenade can also be quite useful against infantry blobs, slowing and damaging them to an extent any one grenade could not hope to (it won't kill any of them by itself however), that thing's not too far from basically being suppression in an area that costs munitions.

The two units work all right together, with HMG34s controlling an area while Obers' DPS are not something would-be flankers want shooting at them while they run over open ground to an HMG34 - few infantry units are likely to be able to slip a grenade toss into an HMG34 crew while Obers are shooting at them. Both will require AT support, however.

Ostheer Pioneers have much weaker Mp40s than the Mp40 assault grenadiers use, etc.

I'm pretty sure Pioneers' MP40s are basically just Kar98Ks at close-range at best (which is still a potential improvement over Combat Engineers that are basically Scripts but only 4 out of 6 of them), while AGs' do have more DPS at best (which is obviously still not enough...).