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How about we make a dual-vet system like PE in vCOH.
Infantry can rather choose to upgrade Offence or Defense, or AT/AI ability.

for example: Weapon Reload time and aim time buff is not so useful for K98, G43 or M1, but is quite deadly when using Panzerschreck or M9 Bazooka. So this would be AT ability upgrade for Infantry.
On the other hand, accuracy and RoF is good for AI, buff them as AI upgrade

This sounds like a good idea, independent of the power-vetting feature.

However, given that AT guns help units over-vet, I would play USF as follows:
- The moment I spot the first enemy vehicle, I kit all my riflemen with 1 bazooka
- Keep the vehicle alive for as long as possible to leech veterancy
- Drop all veterancy into the AI department
- Roflstomp enemy vet1-2 infantry

another good example why this is a problem are pzgrens in my opinion. they vet good with schrecks, but without they vet very slowly in my experience, making them ineffective at an AI role

Generally, yes, I would agree with you. However, ever since the last patch they got the god-nade, which really helps with power-vetting.

Yes, you receive more veterancy based on the value of the target you are hitting. Since tanks are more valuable, you get more XP. I don't know the exact mechanism behind that (e.g., do you get XP proportional to the target's max HP or not)

However, yes, to me it seems that this is, was and will remain a major enabler for AT blobs until it is fixed:
- Enemy fields a light vehicle -> easy vet for your infantry
- Your vet3 "AT" infantry can now run over the enemy's vet0 infantry.

There probably doesn't exist any "clean" solution to this (i.e., penalize veterancy gained through AT damage). However, user "Myself" once proposed a potential fix to this:
- Radically increase infantry veterancy requirements to match the veterancy gain rate they should have when attacking tanks
- Increase veterancy awarded for attacking infantry (to keep infantry AI gains at the same level)
- Increase veterancy requirements for tanks with AI capabilities (e.g., so that you don't get Vet5 Command Panthers if you manage to run over a squad of conscripts).

As you can see, this requires a cascade of changes. Depending on when you decide to halt this cascade, you reach different trade-offs. If you can think of how to parametrise veterancy exactly, I am sure that somebody will be willing to implement this in a mod.

To give you a task-list:
1) Find all infantry AT squads
2) Find out by how much their veterancy gain should be slowed when they attack tanks
3) Go over to stat.coh2.hu. For every single tank present (doctrinal or non-doctrinal):
- State how much their veterancy gain should be slowed to account for their AI potential (tank canon, flame dots, MGs, crushing)

I was just too lazy to do this, so far

All units should cost an equal amount of popcap according to the level they perform. Otherwise it's completely unfair, and for no reason.

Unfortunately, the game handles popcap in a completely slopy manner. If you aren't convinced, consider the following examples:
- Pre-nerf Panzerwerfer vs Katyusha (both costing 12 popcap)
- OKW P4 vs Valentine (both cost 12 popcap currently; both need to change in opposite directions)
- Anvil Churchill (18 pop) vs other Churchills (also 18 pop) or Tiger (19 pop)
- Stug (8 popcap) vs Puma or AEC (8 popcap)

IMO, SU-85 performs on about the same level as the Firefly, and, perhaps even the JP4. Thus, it merits a 14 popcap.

(USF effectively has no popcap limit)

I don't think Donnie is overreacting about the mortar pit. Not one bit.
The systems of counters to this attrocity is just wrong, and brace only makes that worse.

On-topic:

Has anybody ever questioned why mortar pit has to gain veterancy to begin with? It's a structure, sure, but so are bunkers and the OKW Schwerer. Sure it costs popcap, but whatever.

Vet is there to reward unit preservation. However, do we really want the game to also reward emplacement preservation????

Regardless, Mortar pit veterancy is just... bad:
- Smoke shells should be stock at vet0 (with garrison or without garrison)
- Barrage veterancy is useless since mortar pit barrage is actually worse than auto-fire
- The only thing worth it is the +50% health, which is, well, cancerous.

What the AT rifles (PTRS, Bois) lacks compared to other infantry-ported AT weapons is an unacceptably long aim time before the first round goes out.

Bazooka/Piat/Panzerschreck:
- you right-click on the enemy? Whoosh, there goes your rocket out instantly (1.25 waiting time)

PTRS:
- You have to wait for 2.75 secs before your first shot goes out)