Profile of Mr.Smith

Riflemen veterancy needs a rework, that much is clear in general. But even with that rework, the problem of double upgrades in general remains. This applies to all of them, PzGrens with their double Schreck, Tommies with the double Brens, but most jarringly of course to Riflemen with double BARs (most jarringly because the second BAR basically removes all weaknesses Riflemen had compared to other infantry). If all of these double upgrades were to go, the game would be much better off.

A single schreck is good enough vs tanks (that's the equivalent of 2 bazookas). Double schrecks on 4-men squads is an overkill; and that's for a purpose.

Forced double-schrecks on PGrens is actually a nerf that is necessary to keep their power in check. Their STGs are comparable to riflemen BARs (though, obviously, worse).

If you had blob made out of squads with 3 STGs and a schreck each, you would trivially a-move your way to victory, every single game.

v0.105 update

One-hit-wipe-wonder fixes

This one is about addressing one-hit wipes (AVRE, Sturmtiger, demopacks, goliaths, etc)

I have separated the damage of these abilities vs vehicles and vs infantry.

Most of those attacks retain their damage vs vehicles as it was (exception: Sturmtiger got nerfed to 580 from 640, for obvious reasons).

The damage these attacks vs infantry now is no longer one huge, unavoidable explosion. Instead, it's a randomized explosion, that might, or might not wipe everyone standing right in the center of it. On the other hand, that same explosion may also kill models further away from the centre of the explosion.

It works a bit like:
- Take Stuka Dive Bomb
- Replace it with 50-or-so mini-infiltration nades peppered around the radius. Throw 25 of those nades within a radius of 5 or so, and the remaining 25 nades within a radius of 10 (the latter might still end up within the smaller circle).

The rationale behind this change is that:
- The blob-counter rationale behind those abilities is a myth. Those are lone-squad wiper abilities
- In the live version the attacker has full control over when to launch the attack and where the attack will hit (most of these attacks are pinpoint accurate)
- This means that an attacker is very likely to abuse those abilities to wipe individual squads
- Since the explosion is unpredictable, the attacker might now have to think twice about wasting the attack to wipe an individual squad
- At the same point, launching this attack on a blob will cause enormous amount of damage

All of those attacks now cause exactly the same amount of anti-infantry damage. Demo-packs and goliaths have now been normalized to also deal the same amount of damage to all targets.

Stuka Dive bomb causes additional damage, but over a wider radius, so that it remains scary. Don't expect too many wipes with it.

B4 is now a lot more accurate if you fire against visible territory. On the other hand, it's even more inaccurate than before if you fire in the fog-of-war. Line your shots wisely.

In the future, I might decide to add a stun critical vs infantry to those attacks.

Anti-Freedom band-aid

To prevent USF from roflstomping everyone both in the live game and the QoL mod, I have instituted the following nerfs:
- Lieutenant/Captain tier manpower cost up to 350MP (from 200MP)
- Mortar nerfed according to Miragefla's post
- M20 crew no longer gains a free bazooka (they need to pay for it, like the captain does)

To ease the pain a bit:
- Lieutenant/Captain Thompson changed to slot item. This means that the weapon will be passed around when the unit that was holding it died. On the flipside it might cause a few unnecessary weapon drops though.
- M20 MP cost down to 210 (from 340) -- with lieutenant cost going up, free zook away and the 222 the way it is.. Why not?
- M15 MP cost down to 270 (from 350). Same.
- Lack of mandatory bazooka means that M20 crew can upgrade to elite crew thompsons

A few closing words on the mortar:
- The QoL version mortar now gains exactly the same veterancy as the other mortars in the game
- On the other hand, Miragefla's stats parametrisation makes it completely different from any other mortar. Thus, I can't really compare how the new mortar will look like off the top of my head. It still looks insanely strong though, especially with the WP barrage.
- NB: firing mortars from close range makes them extremely accurate (and lethal)

Do re-enforced models automatically gain the bonuses also? or is it only for the models that survived?

I thought they changed it somewhere - so if your triple vet squad goes down to one model - after you re-enforce they won't be as effective

That bug that are referring to has been completely eradicated as of March 2016. Thus, vet works just fine!

v0.104 update

This version mainly addresses Logistics Gliders shenanigans, which make officers/commandos/gliders unavailable to players for no reason.

- If a glider crash-lands, it will self-destruct within 10 seconds from touching down (this will allow additional Logistics gliders to be called in)
- Gliders no longer allowed in the base sector (to prevent Brit tech-up from bugging out). Sorry for that.

To ensure that the player always has access to 1 and exactly one Airlanding officer:
- If the player already has an officer when the Logistics Glider is called in, the glider calls a Commando squad instead
- The player can buy additional Officer squads at the glider for 370MP, to a maximum of 1 squad per player
- (medic squad moved to HQ; no commander requirements)
- To make things fair, the player needs to buy an 100MP upgrade to activate forward retreat point

Officer heroic charge nerfed: no longer confers bonuses to received accuracy (still the best buff in the game, though).

Officer squad popcap raised to 9 to match Commandos popcap (similar potency)

King Tiger now buildable at the OKW HQ again. Same requirements. Same limit (1 max). This is to allow OKW players to build KTs without being forced to pick a commander.

Its mean u cannot use the Infiltration grenade instantly when u call new infantry.
Same goes to fix the SU patisan AT grenade : give then 20-30 sec cooldown, not instantly pop out building and preform deadly combo Shreck - AT grenade - Shreck.

Partisans (and all other infiltration units) are no longer instantly popping out of buildings. The added delay means that you may miss your intended target.

The added delay means that you need to choose in advance whether you want to spawn AT partisans with SMG partisan support or not.

Partisans also no longer cost less than a bottle of scotch to summon. Their call-in price has been bumped up to make them fair compared to the other infiltration units.

Neither squad will be able to survive the 20 seconds needed to bring the new guys to the front. Thus if you want to be able to counter both vehicles and infantry, you need to summon both squads at roughly the same time, and hope that the enemy hasn't moved by then.

However, this is not sustainable, as calling both squads will now cost you 500+ manpower. Thus, it will become more cost-efficient to actually stealth a squad to the front-line and try to time it with a squad spawning from the rear lines.

That looks like "mission accomplished"-enough for me.

If people have tried out the nerfs in-game and they still find them unsatisfactory I can also start going around nerfing the cooldown of abilities, etc. I'm just trying the lazy approach first of not fixing something unless there's actually a problem.