In order to receive better-quality feedback about commander changes, we will be creating individual threads for each revamped commander.
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Intent of the changes
Post-DBP and assuming no commander revamp, Soviets would be lacking any decent commanders. That's primarily because of Shock Troops/Guards being meh, which makes said doctrines being meh.
The last remaining traditional OP commanders have been weakened due to a series of other changes (Penal nerfs, Lend-Lease changes and Mother Russia nerfs).
If we take Guards, Shocks and Howitzer changes for granted, my assumption is that the following commanders will now (re)-enter the meta:
- Guards Motor
- Shock Rifle Frontline
- Soviet Reserve Army
Thus, the question becomes; can we do better and add more doctrines to the meta? The reason why Guards Combined Arms was selected was that it was a meh commander with mostly meh abilities. Most importantly, most of those abilities overlap with decent doctrines which deserve a place in the meta.
Basically, by fortifying the strength of the abilities in the commander, the following commanders now enter the meta:
- Armoured Assault Tactics
- Mechanized Support Tactics
- Terror
- Soviet Combined Arms Army
Lesser commanders also start to look a bit more appealing, but possibly not dominant in the meta:
- Anti-infantry Tactics
- Shock Motor Heavy Tactics
- Shock Army
What remains to pull the commander from the lesser commanders to meta commanders is to make Hit the Dirt and IL-2 Strafe powerful enough to rival the competing abilities
Hit the Dirt
In live version, the ability is supposed to spawn yellow cover even if there is yellow cover.
On paper, this is the hallmark of a super-situational ability.
In practice, the yellow cover that the ability was supposed to spawn was bugged, so you never benefited from anything other than suppression resistance.
IL-2 Strafing run
This ability needs to be good enough for people to consider using it over a bombing strike that you can use to finish off OKW trucks, etc, etc.
The key change to the this ability comes from the fact that OKW no longer has effortless access to AA.
Currently the ability only targets infantry. We could change it to allow it to also target light vehicles.
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Romeo
Mr Smith
Luciano
Mr Smith
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