Profile of Aftermath

But that's part of the point of strategy and tactics: Properly realizing where and when your opponent probes and pushes.
I don't think this would add more than it took away from the strategy of the game.

You could make this argument in favour of abolishing the tact map though right? It also helps you in 'realizing where and when your opponent probes and pushes'. Ultimately these QOL changes in effect are productivity tools and which, while making your life easier in some regards, free your mental resources up to concentrate elsewhere. Auto reinforce is another good example.

Its not a hill I would die on though, I'd much prefer to see the control groups functionality, selector and events functionality fleshed out.

I thought of some more features:

Control Group/Mark Opponent's Units

Why? Well it would make it much easier to keep track of your opponents units if you could mark them in some way. For example, if I mark all my opponent's 4 rifle squads 1-4 and I notice 1,2 are on the left part of the map and 3,4 are on the right, if I note that 3 has come over to the left, I know that 4 is on its own, so I can send a vehicle over or whatever.

Another example, I mark my opponent's first Panzer IV when it comes out, but then another P4 shows up with no marker, I can deduce that they're on their second medium tank.

It would be great then that if I double tapped 4 it would pan the camera to the opponent's unit if it is within LOS, so I can quickly note 'okay, there's the Tiger, let's go over to the other side of the map'.

This feature really depends on the extra control groups feature being implemented.

More Alerts Improvements

It would be great if you could filter out certain types of alerts that you don't care about. For instance, if you don't really care that much when 'Enemies are spotted', in the settings, if you could configure that Alert type off, that would be great as it reduces noise.

Even better if you had hotkeys to toggle 'Alert profiles'. An Alert profile is basically a collection of alerts and whether they are toggled on or off. The basic idea is that; you may want to see a certain group of alerts at different points in the game, for example, at the start of the game you might care about Enemy being spotted or territory being captured, but you probably don't care later on in the game as its not your priority, so if you had a 'Late game alert profile' where these alerts don't show up and was triggerable via hotkey (because nobody wants to dive into the settings mid game), this would be quite useful. Having this tied to your hotkeys profile would make a lot of sense.

Also having a one time alert notifying you that an Alert profile is active would also make sense:



This is what the alert screen would look like:



As you can see, it also allows you to colour code the alert text as you like.

Improvements to the Minimap

I thought of another idea in this field, it would be great if you could toggle (via hotkey) 'show control group numbers on minimap'. Some players might want to see where their control groups are on the minimap at a glance. It would be better if it was a toggle as you probably wouldn't always want to see this, as its noise, so having the colour distinction would still be useful.

Looking at the map below, if you always have your pioneer on control group 1 and this is configured to being purple, you can tell at a glance that if your light vehicle at control group 3 has engine damage, where you need to reverse to/where your pio needs to come from.

It would also be nice if in the settings, you could configure whether or not 'control group numbers appear on the mini map' is on at the start of the game.

If you right click on Company of Heroes 3 in your Steam games library and then go to Manage, Browse local files it will send you to the game's main directory. There you can find the EssenceEditor.exe which from what I understand are both the new modding tools from CoH2 combined with the WorldBuilder, which creates maps but don't quote me on that because I am not fully aware of all of it's capabilities just yet.

I'm modding the game as we speak to showcase some of my ideas for balance and design as well, and also for fun of course.

I’ll have a play round with it and see how it goes.

You'd think that they would give DAK some kind of "Withdraw and Refit" ability to dispose of unwanted 250s if they were going down this deployment system rabbit hole.

That would help but it would be just easier if they didn't give you the 250. It would be a bit odd for you to call in a combat group, only to immediately withdraw half of it.

That wouldn't solve the pop cap issue either where in the late game, its kinda hard to use them as you have to have plenty of free pop cap. If you want to call in a P4, but don't have the pop cap to for in the infantry as well, well I guess you're out of luck.

To me the deployment system just needs a rethink.

Isn't the 8 RAD basically the puma?

Isn’t the 232 the 222 on crack? I’d have to play with it some more but my first impression was that it was closer to the luchs. You’d think with a 20mm auto cannon it wouldn’t have the penetration of a 50mm gun. To be clear I’m refering to the Coh2 puma, not the Coh1 variant.

Re the Panzer Jagers, I just think for what is supposed to be an AT squad, an upgrade that helps them in that role, rather than anti infantry would probably make more sense. Otherwise they’ll end up being kinda Guards ‘counter everything’ like.

Part of the reason I want the 250 to have a pak36 upgrade is so I can pretend DAK is PE, I’ll have my PGs, my infantry halftrack, my mortar half track, my light at halftrack, my armoured car and my marder.