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Cause the only way to implement giving it a visible arc of fire meant that garrisoning/ungarisoning became bugged.

An 80-range static gun without a visible arc of fire is unusable.

While the reason makes sense why it was changed, I haven't had major issues using it without the cone. A garrisoned 17 Pounder turns fast enough and engages targets just fine for me since I can see where the gun is pointing and have experience with Pak 43s and artillery pieces to have a rough idea what the Firing Cone would be.

Gah! Is there any way to make the Sandbags around the 17 Pounder behave like the Pak 43's? Where you could pass through the emplacement and use the sandbags as cover in a traditional way? It's not ideal but at least it maintains immersion and doesn't block pathways in urban areas.

They must be pissing themselves laughing at the thought of the community getting excited and then seeing the changelog. XD

Honestly see nothing wrong with it. If the enemy couldn't prevent that from happening by supporting their weapon teams with superior Infantry AT, it's on them. It's war, loss is inevitable.

If facing the tactic myself, I would unload on and attempt to destroy their empty vehicle and accept the temporary loss of my weapon team before they get back in their vehicle. It's unlikely they will use the Vehicle Crew to crew the Heavy Weapon when it means losing their vehicle to do so. Speaking of which, the suggested change would apply to the vehicle crews themselves too. Allowing you time to kill them before they get back in, if you choose to do so.

It would certainly be worth exploring delaying when a unit gets inside a vehicle by at least 5 seconds to make the Tommy Guns useful. Nobody in their right mind would try and fight approaching infantry from outside their vehicle since they can be stolen instantly. This is why the Tommy Gun upgrade is a waste of resources.

Alright, time for a little Necromancy! lol.

Centaur
We are bringing Centaur’s anti-garrison performance in-line with the FlakHQ/Luchs and other flak-based units we have previously fixed. Increased acceleration will allow the unit to perform its anti-infantry role more reliably.

- Increased scatter to FlakHT levels
- Added penalties vs heavy cover and light cover
- Increased damage vs garrisons
- Acceleration from 1.5 to 1.9
- Projectile now ignores terrain
- Reduced accuracy vs vehicles

I remember that during the FBP, we had already tried to decrease the Centaur's ability to hit units in Light Cover but it was determined that it made it suffer too much during late game. So the light cover change was reverted. Why was it not reverted on this mod too with the British being weaker in general?

I'm still playing the game with the revamp mod myself and the Centaur just feels so incredibly underwhelming. Had to get two of them to somewhat effectively deal with Panzergrenadier stragglers on Angoville. The shrub and ditch cover made them feel pathetic. :/

Vickers_k
- DPS curve normalised to that of DP-28

This change will make it so that the performance of double-vickers-k units does not exceed the performance of Bren gun infantry by a lot

As for the Vickers K, it still doesn't feel right to me. I don't feel it's cost effective to get these things at all over a Bren Gun. Nor does it really have a unique purpose.

Honestly would love to see it also decreased to one per squad and increase it's damage output back to Vanilla. But increase the reload time from 8.94 to maybe... at least 12 Seconds? lay down a lot of fire at once but take far longer to reload than a Bren Gun which is at 5 Seconds? Would love to experiment with that. Maybe even give them a VERY light suppression like the LMG42 of CoH1?

Not that this will ever happen but it would be cool it if the gun had a toggle command that lets you choose when to fire the Vickers K so that you can wait until the enemy gets close enough then open up.

Come on guys! Keep the mod discussion alive!