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Jump back to quoted post6 Jul 2019, 22:24 PMJibberJabberJobber

Thank you for the information, always interested to know more about the inner mechanics of this game. Do other types of vehicles work with an invisible gun like this (like turrets in tanks)?

Jump back to quoted post21 Jun 2019, 22:04 PMJibberJabberJobber

1. Handbrake mode

This seems the easiest to implement. When parking your halftrack next to an enemy squad to maximize dps, the front gunner makes the halftrack rotate to target individual models. This rotating applies the moving accuracy penalty to the squad inside the halftrack, lowering their accuracy by 60%. Crucial when that squad has high dps like Cavalry Riflemen or Panzergrenadiers. The only way to stop this is to spam the halt command, which is ofcourse not ideal. A handbrake like the M15 halftrack could solve this.

Jump back to quoted post21 Jun 2019, 22:04 PMJibberJabberJobber

2. Allow squad targeting inside halftrack

A big weakness of halftracks is the inability to tell the squad inside who to shoot. You have to drive out of range or move behind a shotblocker to allow the squad to retarget. This can be detrimental when chasing a sniper for example, with only the gunner firing on the sniper, while the squad inside prefers to shoot at another irrelevant target instead. Letting the squad inside fire on the same target you right click on would be a simple solution or perhaps there could be a unique button on the command bar to allow squad targeting.

3. Vehicle prioritization for AT rocket infantry

This goes beyond just AT squads inside a halftrack. Rockets barely ever hit infantry and if they do hit, the damage is negligible. A perfectly timed flank on a light vehicle with a halftrack can be ruined by the squad inside unloading their rocket salvo on a squad that showed up a split second before the enemy vehicle was in range, possibly resulting in the halftrack being hunted down and destroyed by said vehicle.

Jump back to quoted post24 Apr 2018, 00:32 AMFiresparks

lee enfield and bren are derivative on grenadier kar98k and lmg42 to begin with.

fair point about the vicker K and bren, but can't you already do that with m1919a6 and bar?

Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2018, 14:27 PMLago

Take two hypothetical slot weapons.

• The LMG 45 fires one salvo every 5 seconds. This salvo deals damage equal to half an enemy model's health.
  
• The LMG 90 fires the same salvo every x seconds.
  

Equip one infantry squad with two LMG 45s and one with a single LMG 90. Put it up against an enemy squad: each model in that squad deals 1 damage per second. The two LMG 45s each target a different model.

Firstly, give the LMG 90 exactly twice the damage output of the LMG 45: make x - 2.5 seconds. In this situation both teams will kill the enemy squad in 20 seconds.

The LMG 90's firepower is all concentrated onto one model and therefore it kills one enemy model every 5 seconds. The LMG 45s kill two models every ten seconds. Therefore, as you said, the LMG 90's better: it takes the same time to kill the enemy squad but it takes only 50 damage in the process. The 2x LMG 45 squad takes 60.

If you make x = 3 then both squads take 60 damage over the course of the fight. The LMG 90 still zaps a model every two shots but because it's firing more slowly this advantage is negated. The LMG 90 now takes 24 seconds to kill the enemy squad whereas the 2x LMG 45 squad still kills it in 20. The LMG 45 squad is now strictly better.

For values of x between 2.5 and 3 the LMG 90 deals damage more slowly than the 2x LMG 45 but takes less damage in return. Somewhere in this range there's a value of x where the choice between offensive advantage and defensive advantage is a meaningful tradeoff rather than a no brainer.

This is of course a vast simplification but does it illustrate what I'm trying to get at here? A single weapon has an inherent advantage over two half-weapons but surely that advantage can be offset with a disadvantage elsewhere?

Jump back to quoted post23 Apr 2018, 10:59 AMVipper

Removing the drop weapon mechanics from the m5 would solve most of you problems and Conscripts coul d get their second slot back.

Or you could have penalties and bonuses to squad so that drop-able weapon perform at the level of the unit that wield them.