Profile of Noscul

The only part of RNG I hate is when you have an infantry engagement, you lose one/two models of a squad from it and then the piece of mortar/artillery/tank shell from the fog gets the clump kill on the rest of your squad. I have had this done to me and I have done it to others and I feel like there was nothing I or they could have done other retreat before this shell came flying at them. As far as not killing units near death you can do something about that to increase the chances like use abilites, have another unit or block them.

The main reason for teaching to grenades is to make it a decision, if you can just blindly tech one way then this not only reduces strategy but also takes away from making more build orders as the grenades do a good effect on fights. For Ostheer when you go for T2 tech can be crucial to early game since if you do it too early you are down at least one unit when you are supposed to be capturing and skirmishing. For OKW I do agree that this is less of a choice/risk as you have strum pios to win early fights except for the fact that you could lose your truck from rushing it, which actually happens to me quite often.

I want to say that not all allied grenades are not subpar the Soviet ones are still strong (maybe not after the new patch) but they are just easier to dodge than the OKW ones but they still reliably win skirmishes if they sit in it for a second. The USF ones I find consistently kill 3 models if your opponent doesn't dodge them and two usually wipe an MG in a house so I don't find them subpar. The Mills bomb I honestly only got once and I did not use it much so I can't say much, but the gammon bomb is a squad wiper if you can get it in the middle of them but a 4 second fuse is easy to dodge. Ostheer grenades feel pretty weak with the only trade being range, when you use one on a housed maxim you will probably only kill one model and barely damage the others each time, however sometime you get lucky clump kills. OKW grenades right now feel like super molotovs since the thrower does not wind up the throw like he is throwing a football this might be part of their design to be super aggressive early but they are a bit too spamable.

I really wished now that I tested the old centaur with hull down to see if it could take on AT guns armies.

This ability is more map situational than anything, the few times I setup hulled tanks is when they are in ambushing spots such as the bottom right cutoff of Angoville so long range units have difficulty against it. Maybe more tank camo is what hull down needs Plus the reduced damage take is great against indirect fire like if a priest just starts firing on them out of nowhere and they happen to be hulled down you might take a few hits then unhull and run out.

I have a sickening feeling that the "bugged" partisan stats from a few weeks ago was the "testing" for ranger damage.

These factions are looking wacky adding in so many new things to each side, it will probably be like when brits first got in, full of chaos. OKW now has a pyromaniac/anti-infantry which will help out with their elite infantry not fighting USF late game infantry. USF will have more late game with the pershing, I want to know more about the rangers though. Paratroopers are currently the only USF elite infantry and they are good but they are in a super manpower heavy commander and this new commander looks less manpower heavy so I think rangers should have less impact then them. If they end up being the AT inf then I would be fine with that.

I would rather see older commanders fixed up first (especially artillery regiment) but this will keep interest and money alive for the game. Now the question is how long I gotta farm for these guys.

If the churchill is going to be nerfed (which isnt too bad since its super tanky) then I feel like the firefly needs to be more than just a tulip carrier. Reduce the tulip cost and damage by 66% and give the main gun on the firefly better reload, even if it is around 6-7s. The reason for this is obvious the churchill is the best late game counter for heavy tanks since it outlasts most tanks but if the firefly was more consistent then people can make them for panthers/tigers/KT and not rely on spamming heavies (didnt even know that was a thing).