Profile of Angrade (Ægion)

It is confusing. Why not using M4A3(105)?

Just to make it different, so Armor and Mechanized feel different as well as making it more thematically correct. Why make them have the same destination for when it can be different? The two units would have pros and cons. One has more range while the other has more armor. M4(105) would be a an smg, the M7 would be a sniper, and the M7B1 would be a mortar if were to give it a "relative infantry comparison."

In the weapon file under behavior, there is ignore_relations. "Determines if the weapon can target allies or not. If true, weapon ignores allied / enemy relationship logic; false, is standard sim weapon logic (consider target relation to weapon owner). " This could be a good start.

When it comes to USF early game it performs too well vs Ostheer. They added the mortar to counter the MG 42 and the grenade smoke allows even their starting infantry to counter the MG 42. Ostheer does not have any other non-doctrinal openers. They must build an MG 42 but even then their field presence is much lacking in comparison to other factions. My solution to this is to buff the Pioneer to be an actual fighting squad along with the Soviet's Combat Engineer. Ostheer's pioneer and the Soviet's Combat Engineer are the weakest units in the game. The Soviet's Combat Engineers is a four man pre-rework Conscript squad. The Ostheer's Pioneer has trouble fighting even with absolute perfect engagements. They will tie with the reworked conscripts and uncovered Infantry Sections. They still straight up lose vs Riflemen, Penals, and covered Infantry Sections. Of course, absolute perfect engagements never happen so pioneers never have any fighting power apart from the flamer. Ostheer is always munitions starved since their units are generally the weakest vs their counterpart. If pioneers where to receive a buff then openers such as a duel pioneers would be mean the MG 42 would be less common and then the Riflemen smoke would not be all that strong.

The USF mortar as we all know is the weakest thanks to its range of 65. Though the smoke range will be buffed to 80. In order to make it more usable, I would suggest on reducing its set up and tear down times for more mobility. Since all of its counter parts can counter barrage it quite easily, this will help it avoid fire and able to help assist riflemen being able to keep up with them.

When it comes to lieutenant tech, the main problem is the lack of AT. This is fine since bazookas are a possibility and a quite reasonable option. However this conflicts with the M20, munitions hungry support unit. Instead of switching the AT gun and the HMG with the captain tech I propose this. Switching the M20 and the Pack Howizter. The M20 can lay mines for the M1 AT guns. The lieutenant tech would still rely on bazookas while the pack howitzer and HMG are still excellent anti-infantry. Perhaps as well reducing the research time of the lieutenant tech as well?

The only thing I will say is that to make the stealth ability vet 1. This would fix most of the stealthing around issues.

That's the plan for the live version.

However due to Brit commander design and modding tools limitations, the only way to implement such changes in a mod is to force the player to trigger those abilities the first time using the commander ability.

For mod-feedback purposes we could make those abilities unlock unit-specific abilities separately when triggered for the first time.

This is just me spit balling an idea. Would it not be possible to make the ability an "always on" (which it would not display) that adds a player upgrade which unlocks an alternate commander passive and the unit's ability.