Profile of LeChimp

+1 OP, guards should be able to re-purchase their lost PTRS. With regard to pricing I think that cons gets two for 50, so 25 a rifle would be reasonable.

Faust is free, it does not require research or teching. The rifle nade and lmg42 are granted by battlephase 1. Just thought this should be clarified ^^

First off, I'd like to reiterate that you should not be deterred by the biased players on this forum, Fan-bois gonna defend whichever side they feel are the "correct" one. I personally think a lot of the short comments from players are unfair, therefore I'll comment on all of your points, and try to be as objective as possible.

1. Flames. The flames in themselves are actually fine. The damage is good; they made solid changes to the flame damage, so it is less RNG and more the player who is on the receiving end who must react. The problem is more the fact that the allied MGs can’t stop volks dropping incendiary nades on them before they get pinned. This would be solved like kappatch and miragefla has done in their balance mods, by reducing the nade range of all units by 50% when suppressed, this means that charging MGs frontally would be a no go. Second the whole idea of the Maxim not teleporting is making this even more detrimental to the survivability of the Maxim, and this should be changed ASAP.

2. I agree that the stun nade does too much damage; I’d like to see a longer stun duration and a damage of 20 instead of 40. The Stun nade must though get some love if you reduce the damage.

3. A lot of the OKW bonuses and extra features they got because they were a resource starved faction still remain, even though they aren’t a starved faction any longer. I think that it should be an upgrade to make essentially a very tough emplacement. I also think that the AA ability of any kind of base building/base defense should be nullified due to an unfair advantage compared to the opposing factions. With regard to balancing against allied planes, I’d like to emphasize that the Axis have quite a few airborne abilities.

- Axis: Stuka strafe Loiter & strafe, Stuka AT loiter & strafe, Stuka incendiary strike, Supply drop, smoke run, fragmentation bombs, recon run & loiter, Airborne Assualt(OKW) Sector Assualt(OKW) = 12 abilities
- Allied: P47 anti-tank strafe(USF), Strafing run(USF), Recon Run & loiter(USF/SU), Il-2 strafing run & loiter(SU), Il-2 bombing run(SU), Strafing support(UKF), Air supremacy(UKF), Hold the Line(UKF), Allied supply drop(SU), Air resupply operation(UKF) = 12 abilities

Both sides have the same amount of abilities that involve planes. Taking away free AA bases and base defenses should not affect balance. If you see planes, get AA – simple.

4. I think that these should just be MG bunkers. As was stated earlier take that extra bunker away from the USF and make all factions have the same base defense. There should equilibrium here. Then fix the damn Flak emplacements that can be placed on the map by the OKW Luftwaffe doctrine already!

5. The off maps are for the most part fine, I would on the other hand like to see something done to the STUKA dive bomb. It should be marked with red smoke, and be made cheaper, so that you can actually react properly to it, and make it unusable in the base sector. Other than that, most of the off-map that can be targeted in the bases are fine.

6. With regard to this unit, I think relic really messed up. The Le.IG was a pretty neat machine in real life. My way of making this unit work properly, would be to give it a cone like the maxim, and make it a direct fire unit, that has a barrage ability like the mortars, but with a longer cool down time. The pack howitzer had a much longer range than the Le.IG, but why they reversed this in the game, I don’t understand. I know balance > History, but I think this is just a wasted opportunity to make the Le.IG really cool. I do agree that the Le.IG is annoying and stupidly made, the range is too much. With regards to the UKF, I think it’s a problem with the UKF faction design.

7. I don’t really have any comments here. Not particularly for or against the change.

8. I think that the rocket artillery should all be put in line with the Katysha, except for the Calliope, which should be slightly better due to being a commander unit, and commander based units should perform better(not massively better), than their non-doctrinal counterparts. The price of the units should of course be adjusted, this will basically only apply to the Calliope seeing as it’s the most expensive of all the rocket arty units. The only gripe I have about the Stuka zu fuss, is that it kills the un-crewed team weapons and too efficiently and still destroys the weapon teams’ weapon even when crewed.

9. See point 7.

10. I think that the problem is where the panzerschreck is where it’s placed at the moment and its damage. I think the whole rebalancing of hand-held AT you propose is a bit too harsh. So I’d rather see the panzerschreck having their damage reduced to 80 like the zook, but retain its amazing penetration. Put it on the Sturmpios and make a double panzerschreck upgrade that costs 120 muni, make this available after one built tier, this would fix a lot of the volks blobbing. Then give the volks a 3xMP40 upgrade, which also unlocks their incendiary nades, and reduced their KAR damage to 11, cuz right now volks are really strong. This would at least make them resemble the real life volks grenadiers, call this upgrade: “assault package” and make it available after one tier is built.

11. Scavenge is a ability that I think is fine for the most part, but the most simple fix would just be making it only able to salvage wrecks, team weapon wrecks, tank wrecks and so forth.

12. I think the new kubel is pretty cool, +15% cap speed… not soooo much, remove that and it’s fine.

13. I honestly do not see how the devs could make this decision. Not only are they giving one faction a free extra unit. None of the other faction has a 15th unit, except the brits, but they have to choose, they will effectively only have 13 units available at any time(this includes emplacement combat units). This in my opinion a cardinal sin, especially since 1: it is simply not needed, the OKW have all the armor and vehicles they need(what they really need is a non-doctrinal MG34), 2: It is a super heavy tank, all other factions have to choose a commander to get something that is equivalent, how this got approved is simply beyond me. Make it a call in in the elite armor doctrine, remove the Sturmtiger and AVRE from the game, they contradict the whole theme of the game. This is balance and game design at its worst. This will probably never happen sadly. But your idea is good, this would balance it out, and then add another unit to all the faction that only have 14 units. Add a much needed light tank to the OST for instance, the Hotchkiss, a mortar for the USF, KV1 for SU etc.

14. I really think that this is fine right now, seeing as they are categorized as medium heavies like the panther.

15. I think that this would be too difficult to implement sorry.

These are my thoughts, and I think the way you set it up was pretty solid. Keep it up ^^

Snipers are a problem across the board, but we saw the Wehr Sniper overperforming in the NA ESL as well, particularly against USF. The Wehrmacht snipers are practically unkillable until T4 when you can get lucky Tank shots. The best practical counter is counter snipes which is just a giant cheesefest, one which USF has no part in. Balance aside, Snipers are just bad for gameplay, it encourages blobbing whilst they ruin the flow of the game and slow everything down by preventing players from being aggressive and engaging to due all the manpower bleed. You either blob everything into it to try and force it off or don't engage at all, there's no room for individual squads against Snipers.

Snipers have been designed to be countered by light vehicles, but they're just not a viable counter, light vehicles are so risky and too all-in due to the abundance of Fausts, how quickly the 222 comes out and the prevalence of mines. There's so many ways the snipers could be changed, it's hard to think of the best one. I would perhaps suggest I increasing the aim fire delay, that would be a great change because it would means snipers can't 1v1 squads by kiting them. Snipers should be countered by charging a squad up to the sniper and forcing it off, but this doesn't work because a sniper can just keep running backwards and using it's cover and range to pick off models as it soft retreats. Increasing the aim fire delay would also prevent counter snipes which is a massive problem for Brits vs Wehr especially because it's just a monotonous and frustrating face off that prevents you from being active with the Snipers. Leaving a sniper cloaked for 5 minutes hoping the enemies sniper will reveal itself nearby is not fun gameplay.

I agree with the above statement. While I think that snipers are a silly unit, just like the AVRE and Sturmtiger are silly units, I feel that the marksmans units(jaegers and pathfinders) are what the sniper units should have been.

With regard to balance of the snipers, the OST sniper is the most difficult to kill and the one with the best aim time, the best armor or received accuracy, or whatever makes the OST sniper so durable. I've seen an OST sniper being completely swarmed by riflemen while retreating and still surviving, while the UKF/SU sniper seldomly survives encounters with axis infantry. I have even tried chasing down the ost sniper with all of the dedicated light vehicle counters and the snipers still survive, while my light vehicle got fausted then killed, or outright being one-shottet by a raketen that the OST players teammate had build. Killing OST snipers out of positions is simply too difficult.

Some of their units need some tweaks, like the Universal carrier and the Firefly. But to balance them out, give them at the very least a 3inch mortar squad instead of the mortar emplacement. This would fix alot of the UKF issues. Then give them some proper arty like fixing the sexton, base howitzers and give them some rocket arty through a commander(land matress, this is probably on it's way).

The whole idea of a defensive faction that cannot attack a defensive position because it doesn't have any way of pounding mgs, at guns or bunkers is handicapped.