Profile of Angrade (Ægion)

Coh1: (German) Rain... Open top tank... Fucking great engineering.

Coh2 Panzergrens/Urban A Flamenwufter is a good weapon, but I still prefer a rifle or a Knnnniffffeee.

Coh2 Theater of War: *German unit finds an un-crewed M3 scout car and takes it* Soviet officer: Hey that's my car.

honestly, i'd go the other way with aegion's suggestions... every faction should start with a combat unit. this is inhibited by EFA's design, since they have to build a structure right off the bat and the WFA armies don't. starting with engineers/pios/REs is a handicap, especially with brit IS and OKW sturms available from the get-go.

that said, the variety makes life interesting, so maybe don't change anything...

Having a grenadier to start instead of a pioneer is a interest suggestion. It could enable the skip to T2 to be more viable. Usually units like assault grenadiers need a Grenadier for support.

Could you try running the game off of a external hard drive or flash drive? Steam has now a change installation option to assist in this. Granted this will not be optimal when playing but maybe it can help narrow down the possibility your hard drive is going bad.

Interesting changes, some of them i have waited in the live game for a long time

Added:
Better to use this icons for commissar abillitites:

Thanks I should use those.

Well the problem with that is that when Conscripts get into scope Penal will not be the scope...

I have to point out here that I am not blaming the mod team.

It is simply to re-balance all infantry available before minute 1.

The balance between the starting infantry is quite bad while conscripts and grens are fine. But grens will lose out vs penals at pretty much all ranges. Same with conscripts vs volks. Cons will generally lose vs volks especially with the STG upgrade. Riflemen are generally better then grens but grens will still generally win at long range. Infantry section are straight up better grens.

Another problem is starting units. First off, in my gripe list, is T0 MGs. It is a little too potent. Either a faction can deal with it or not. USF got the mortar to deal with MG 42s but MG 42s were there to allow Ostheer to fight infantry because they do not have T0 infantry and back then pios were much weaker. Personally I believe Brits have trouble with garrisons also because their two answers are not ideal. Mortar pits can be a bit too far off in cost and tech positioning to actually deal with garrisons, but when they are set up they create hell to deal with. This is why I would not mind seeing a garrison mobile mortar. This will help deal with structures while tackling the mortar pit issue. The brit other answer is the Universal carrier with flamer, but do to the potency of Fausts and other snares the Universal carrier, 251 halftrack, and other light vehicles. The penal snares are bit more balanced than you think. It is a skill shot and has very short range. If other snares had a shorter ranges then their. Additionally another problem with both the mortar pit and carrier is the fact there is no T0 engineers. Carrier needs repairs, well use a munition ability that you would rather not use. Hence why mobile assualt is very popular in order to get flamers on your royal engineers.

Another problem is starting units. Primarily I am looking at OKW, UKF, and Soviets. A rushing squad of Infantry Section and Sturmpioneers is hard to deal with as Soviet or Ostheer. Soviets are just out classed and Ostheer has build T1 or rely on less desirable doctrines to have any early field presence.


In short and in spoilers this is how I would tackle other problems first then penals. Fix some other things a penals may fit in. Centralized teching costs and starting assets whether it be starting units or resources. Everyone usually complain about how imbalance the late game is but for me, the late game may become more balanced if the early game was balance.


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Sorry if this was a bit off topic but by averaging out the factions and there can be a bit more balance between them.