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Might as well just swap the Scott for the Priest if they want to gut its auto abilities.

At least it can perform as psuedo (bad) rocket artillery and has the range to actually be useful.

Still have no idea how USF is supposed to deal with Axis elite infantry late game now with the 50 cal, Pack Howie, and Scott all getting gutted.

You have your own elite infantry (Paras come to mind) and CalliOP spam seems to be the meta in 4v4. I also don't recall 50 call DPS/Suppression being nerfed. Extremely oppressive unit for OKW to get rid of, LEFHs don't do anything worth mentioning vs it and diving often fails due to it requiring 3 shots,nobounce,nomiss,nointerception, etc.

Hamburg/ultra urban maps might give the Assault Officer the opportunity to really shine, I wonder if he'd be enough to keep balance in UKF's favour in these sorts of maps? Or would they need Assault Tommies as well, to keep up with Sturmpioneers?

There's a reason I go auf J rush esp vs UKF, because your volks just can't stand up to IS at any point in the game. StG 44 volks are equalised (or beaten) by 5 man IS or Bren IS. Not long ago I was ranting on the forum about how volks behind sandbag were losing models at the same rate as double bren tommies out of cover in a shootout. Feuersturms' 0.9(Can someone confirm this stat pls?) RA MP40 volks can meme your opponent but only if they don't see it coming. And Feuer works extremely well on heavy urban, with lots of tighter confines where automatics work better and cover can become your death vs nades and flame weapons/munitions. Emplacements are fiery tombs vs Feuer. Assault Officer helps a lot, but the faction does fine on heavy urban imho, it's just not a meme any more. Feuersturm can be beaten by decent opponents rather well, esp if they stick to long range shootouts, forcing you to come to them.

Hamburg is better vs UKF because you already are assuming a grind battle and ISGs shine there and the map boils down to three narrow lanes, making flanking highly predictable and counterable or just plain dangerous/long winded. UC faces the choice of staring down predictable corridors where a rak is prob waiting. But Vickers will still kick you off any fuel point easily and flanks stopped by IS squads effortlessly.

Give release COH2 Penals with flamer and 6 G43 like Rifles. You can't powercreep if you "nerf" them back to what they originally were.

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One of the many reasons I quit 1v1 back in the day. Flamer Penals.

We're not sure yet, actually.

P4 H gets +16 sight at vet 5, the bug gave it another +7 sight on top if stationary.

Ah okay, thanks for explaining. I always thought that +7 when stationary bit in the veterancy guide looked odd for years, it was nice while it worked I suppose but can't really complain if it was removed due to being a bug. +16 is very nice as is.

The tech rework is supposed to make backteching to Medics more viable for Mechanized, so it doesn't shake up Battlegroup start itself that much. That's why most of the stuff is locked behind the BG upgrade.

With Infantry Weapon Upgrades, JLI G43, Volk STG44 and Pfusi G43 are meant.

An interesting change though OKW without volks StG44 will be rather rare I predict (due to being overpowered quite easily without them and thus heavily favour BGruup openers), unless they seek to bypass with the MP40s(?) Or some kind of Falls/Ober heavy build . This change might shift ppl even further away from Mech as a viable tech. Does Mech HQ gets the Infantry Weapon Upgrades upgrade by default?

OKW already got some help in this regard. WC51 can be reliably forced away with small arms now, AEC is delayed significantly with the buildtime increase and Sections losing their capping bonus so can't safeguard the UC early on, M3 effectively lost 160 effective HP against small arms. Sturms also had their Schreck made non-exclusive with Sweeper.

That's why it was opted not to put the Faust in the initial Battlegroup structure.

Oh I meant that the BGruppe being cheaper and now put down earlier would make the first deployed HQ truck earlier now? Thus fausts would be available on volks earlier as a result unless I missed something? Is this intentional?

I agree with the rest, clown car situation was already significantly improved from the earlier v1 changes.

USF pop exploit fix is pure genius. WC51 change should put an end to overuse of this doc. I salute you balance team o7