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Some great ideas here. I'm not too serious about this but what about mashing all the ideas together:

Take Raketenwerfer, MG34, ISG and put it in their own Tier 1.5 truck and call it support regiment truck.
Should be a very cheap tech and have a unique bonus, but I can't think of anything but heal or repair right now, which are both occupied.

The alternative is to realise the following:
- Every faction requires reliable access to healing
- OKW has had 2/3rds of the support weapons already moved to Tier-0 in order to support the illusion of non-linear teching
- OKW needs to have early access to indirect fire/smoke, to punish MG spam
- OKW needs to have early-ish access to MGs, to make them less of an early-game infantry blob faction
- High-tier people require something mobile to rush and overwhelm the enemy. That's because playing passively means you're losing your initiative

OKW would have been able to support non-linear teching if its unit roster actually had the necessary units. E.g., if we picked all Panzer Elite 250-HT units, and moved them to MedHQ (and potentially removed ISG, since mortarHT is more mobile), players would now have two decent tiers to choose from.

Moreover, you would now have a truly aggressive faction with real trade-offs to make (e.g., how much fuel do I want to spend to support being aggressive, vs how much to save for teching up).
- If you go MechHQ you get a tanky direct-fire unit, but an expensive indirect fire unit
- If you go MedHQ you get a relatively immobile direct-fire unit, but an affordable and very mobile indirect-fire unit

Unfortunately, that's not possible to do for the live game, since OKW lacks the skins for the required vehicles (250 halftrack, mortar halftrack, etc)

Thus, given that this is the unit roster that OKW has access to, a potential good way to rearrange it is to accept that OKW teching has to be linearised:

Linear tech OKW:

MedHQ
Make it arrive way earlier. Gives the player access to HMG, LeIG (the beefy FBP version) and maybe Obers (with no upgrades)
MechHQ (requires MedHQ)
Make it arrive 15-ish fuel later than live-version MechHQ. Gives the player access to luchs, puma and a more consistent Stuka (lower cooldown, lower cost, but no insta-wipes thing).

The tier should also give the OKW player access to a dirt-cheap FlakHT (something along the lines of 40FU), so that the halftrack is competitive to the Luchs, and is also the tier's lategame mainstay when it comes to cheap AI (luchs is not reliable lategame AI)

FlakHQ (requires FlakHQ)
- Unlocks LMG upgrade for Obers, same units as before, otherwise
(there would probably have to be a new upgrade to unlock as a prerequisite for King Tiger, to prevent it from coming out way too early)

Raketenwerfer:
The unit completely breaks the counter system. It's weak and RNG vs targets it's supposed to counter (tanks), yet completely negates infantry flanks with retreat.

Easy rework:
- Increase crew size from 4-men to 5-men (to make more resilient to AoE)
- Remove retreat button (to make it actually vulnerable to small arms fire)
- Add reverse button

Tougher rework:
Pak40-ish clone (price, range, arc, damage, rate-of-fire), on a raketen model with the following features:
- Soviet ambush camouflage at Vet1, instead of TWP
- 5-man crew

I see nothing about the M2 in the notes.

• Fixed an issue where it was possible to upgrade Rear Echelons with both Minesweepers and flamers at the same time
  

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Pushing the sprint back to 1cp really neuters any alternative build orders besides grenspam that were possible with this commander. It's not practical anymore to use pioneers with sprint in the first few engagements of the map, which really opened up the doctrine to t2 rush strats for 222 or pgrens. 3x or 4x gren builds were already the meta before, locking sprint to 1cp leaves grens as still the only possible opening for good infantry play.

It's sad to see that this doctrine is becoming Elite Troops, but with sprint instead of stun grenades. It will play out with exactly the same build order. I would like to see the new commanders encourage the use of other build orders and strategies that weren't already possible in the live game.

People didn't vote for the right commanders to allow us to create new play styles. Instead, they voted for a camouflage/g43/SCAS commander (as if Elite troops and Lightning war weren't enough), so that's what we had to give them in the end

We'll probably make it so that Encirclement keeps its sprint at Vet0 (but doesn't get camouflage). In any case, Encirclement doesn't benefit at all from camouflage (due to stormtroopers), and any kind of CP change will already hurt that crappy commander.

Relic is not allowing us to add abilities to KV-1 that don't already exist in the game. FBP vet1 hull-down made the tank a very good buy; unfortunately it was "scoped". Thus, any changes to the KV-1 will have to be flat stats changes (either at Vet0 or Vet2+).

Oh so that's all. I thought that there might be something else like.

I haven't tested this commander but extra 160hp is not a big deal for a KV1 I guess. I don't see any reason to go for a KV1 over T34/85. It's gun itnt that great, armor is medicore, it's slow.

But since it needs to be something like damage sponge, did you consider giving it on default, instead of secure mode, something like hull down? That would add great flavor to this unit and how it's used imo.

We really wanted to change Vet1 to hull down, but it got scoped out. Thus, we're asking if 160HP is going to be enough for its price.

Part of the reason why you might want to use a KV1 is because it comes on commanders with howitzers and skillplanes.