Profile of JibberJabberJobber

Well presented Kobal, though I disagree with some of your thoughts here. The UC and AEC timing for instance makes sure that you dont have an AEC on top of the 222 that just came out to counter the UC. This makes it so that you either have to babysit the UC with engineers until AEC arrives, or go for an early 6 pounder meaning there is a decision to be made. In the live version you will always get that AEC before anything else appears to counter the UC, unless you go for any other sidetechs, which imo is flawed. Other than that, what would you think about swapping the starting section with a royal engineer? The royal engineers starting in T0 is a good step, but I think it isn't enough to change any buildorders since you're going to get your sections first no matter what. Maybe compensate for the loss of overall mp by giving ukf higher starting mp as compensation?

Ive also played a lot of games on these notes(though I have not yet touched v4) and the timings feel more fair now when it comes to the AEC: ukf doesnt have that one optimal trick up its sleeve anymore but has to diversify. When it comes to the royal engineers there could be further compensation though I definitely think thats what necessary to bring ukf inline with other factions designs as the assymetrical design here brings nothing interesting to the table

Im glad the healing is addressed, comparing it to okw healing(which thankfully is also getting addressed) when going puma the ukf healing options just knocks it out of the park. In your hypothetical scenario you would probably avoid the sturms just as you do in every other allied-okw matchup until you have sections/uc which are super powerful t0 units compared to kubel and volks

I see what you mean and I agree with you here, but this is also why I think the healing and aec timing nerfs are fair. I can definitely see ukf struggling vs ostheer 5men/osttruppen if they remain meta, but hopefully that wont be the case. As for early obers i think thats just falsely advertised, you'll get to obers later in patch with schwerer costing 90Fu instead of 60, only unlocking the lmg as compensation which you'll usually have for your 1st engagement in the live game anyway if you go t4 -> ober -> panzer auth.

Well, the main thing to consider here is the AEC and healing both get affected by the Section capping bonus removal in a significant way as well. Capturing the map slower simply means you will gather less fuel and munitions in the early game. Especially with slower sandbag build time it will be harder to encroach on the map early on and hold it easily.

That in itself might be good to make Sections less powerful early on, but then the additional AEC and Medical Supply changes essentially mean AEC got a double timing nerf (or triple timing nerf if you go UC) and Medical Supplies got a double cost nerf.

Now I'd be fine with the new AEC timing if UKF got compensated better for it (like you said), but right now, forcing UKF to rush out an AT gun early on is too much an investment to ask of them, especially if they're facing a Sniper. Their AT gun doesn't double as artillery like the ZiS and their tech - if you want to stay competitive - is more manpower intensive compared to something like Ostheer going 222 with Pak40 (180mp for Platoon, 150mp for Bolster, still have to garner 380mp if you want to get AEC out). The AT gun is more of a mid game thing for UKF. It would be better if Brens and PIAT racks got split up between two seperate upgrades for like 50mp 10fu, so UKF would have a soft AT option with low manpower cost:

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Besides giving easier AT access, this has some other benefits for UKF as well:

• Players may decide to save some resources over Bolster and just get by with Brens until their first tank, so you'd see something other than Bolster rush every game.
  
• Brens are literally only good on standard Sections, so if player decides to not play with Sections much (think Assault Sections) they wouldn't be forced into getting Bren rack bundled in an expensive package if they just want PIATs.
  

As for Medical Supplies, the second and third upgrade are too much delayed for UKF to be able to keep up in healing now imo, so they're urged to get a 180mp Medic squad. Now Assault Section starts can afford a Medic squad easily, because they don't have to worry about upgrading Bolster and can just upgrade double Thompson to deal with any opposing mainlines (so for them the manpower investment is in Medics, the munition investment is in Thompson. For Sections the manpower investment is Bolster and the munition investment is Medical Supplies). Standard Section builds will once again have trouble affording something like that early on.

It would be better to keep Medical Supplies 30 munitions and nerf them in some other way if they're too good on the field, for example:
- Make Medical Supplies unable to activate in neutral/enemy territory until Sections are vet 2 (read: can still activate in friendly territory and walk onto enemy territory).

That would be a change in-line with the defensive nature of Sections.

And that basically sums up what Kobal is saying: you want to avoid stacking additional 'required' manpower investments on top of Sections, when Sections already got the capping bonus removal (that being 180mp Medics to keep up with healing or a 320mp AT gun to not get bullied by rushed LVs).

Easiest way to go would probably be restructuring map so base sectors are smaller and in the corners.

It's commendable you went through the trouble calculating stats and bringing up your concerns, but 80 damage radius is already calculated for you on: coh2db.com (or serealia), which shows 0.88 for Cromwell and 1.13 for P4. Also your speed values are off and don't consider further speed bonusses Cromwell can get with warspeed and veterancy.

I do feel something for 11 pop Cromwell, considering its performance is a bit better overall than a 10 pop T34/76 but lower than a 12 pop Sherman or P4.

I can't see a single reason why anyone would get REs before vehicles, especially if you're going to gate the only reason why anyone would even consider it behind tech anyway.
It seems like another random nerf attempt with a token change to not say its 100% nerf.

For a 210 manpower squad they would be good to cap the map faster or as response to some rushed out light vehicle. They're a bit inefficient in combat right now for 28mp reinforce cost, granted their base stats are pretty good for an engineer squad. Wouldn't mind seeing it lowered to 26mp.

The only real nerf here is the fuel cost for UC really, and that's imo a much better solution to open up a window between the UC and AEC follow-up than increasing the build time of the AEC, as it doesn't nerf the faction as a whole. There's already compensation for it as T0 Sappers means you can repair the UC without burning munitions.

I don't know how even you can't see this as a healthy change overall.

For Radio Silence - Absolutely agree, any fourth wall breaking abilities like that shouldn't be in the game. It targets the opposing player's ability to the play the game. That might be unique, but that's because it's inherently bad design. It should just be reworked to something like Smoke Raid Operation of UKF, allowing all infantry squads to camo in cover and something else like improved capture/movement speed.

Infiltration nades - I see your point. An interesting design element about them is that they can't be cancelled unlike Assault Grenadier grenade assault (you don't get refunded), so you have to be smart about whether you throw them or not. If munition cost gets increased to 30 munitions, they should be refundable if cancelled on time.

Spec Ops - True, they can't be countered unlike Recon loiters. I personally had the idea of moving the flares to tanks as targetted ability, similar to the 251 in Mobile Observation Post mode for Strategic Reserves. Then you can safely decrease cost from 60 to 50 munitions as it can't be freely used anywhere on the map.