Profile of edibleshrapnel

Jump back to quoted post9 Dec 2015, 15:03 PMVipper

There is large number of unities that can repair vehicles by default:

Royal engineers (can be armed with LMG/HAT* and minesweepers, built emplacements, destroy cover, built mines, wire)

Royal Sappers (has minesweepers, can be equipped with LMG/piats destroy cover, salvage)

Rear Echelon (can be armed with LMG/HAT* and minesweepers, built fighting position, wire, tank traps, cashes)

Assault engineers (can be armed with flamers and LMG/HAT, built fighting position, wire, mines, cashes, cut wire, repair critical, demo charges)

Vehicle crews (repair critical)

Sturmpioneers (can be equipped with minesweapers, mines, R. wire, salvage)

Pioneer (can be armed with flamers or minesweepers, built building, bunkers, mines, wire, cashes)

Combat engineers (can be armed with flamers or minesweepers, built building, mines, wire, cashes, demolition chargers)

(I left out some doctrinal abilities)

The majority of these units (apart from crews, C.E. and pioneers)are good at fighting and can substitute (or even perform better than) standard infantry in fighting. Furthermore they can vet too fast further improving their repair speed.

Imo most of these units offer too much utility (fighting, repairing, creating obstacles, clearing obstacles and all that in a cost efficient price) and with the increased repair speed via vet they can increase the performance of vehicle with allot of HP, by reducing their time out of the field.

The utility of these units is also very different.

Suggestions:

1) Balance out utility, some of these units can carry minesweeper and buy extra weapons other can not, and that affect the performance of weapons like mines, demo chancres, goliaths since some blob can counter them with little loss of firepower while other lose more firepower.

Minesweepers and other weapon should be mutually exclusive so that one units can have one or the other but not both (similar to pioneer and C.E.). All sweepers should be able to be removed similarly to S.P. so that units with them don't lose DPS and can still gain veterancy (remember they can no longer buy weapons).

2) Reduce repair speed of all units to "doctrinal conscript" repair speed, replace the repair speed vet bonuses with a remove repair damage penalty bonus. Reduce built time for emplacements/obstacles.

Make minesweepers increase repair speed and built speed and add repair speed vet bonus, maybe even gain veterancy via repairing.

This changes aim at creating 2 clear path for engineers the combat oriented ones equipped with weapons that can still have utility but be slower, and the utility engineers providing more utility less fighting abilities.

Specific unit changes:

Royal sapper they could spawn with 1-2 piats being an exception in the minesweeper or weapon rule. (the luck utility)

Assault engineers add a 5 member as a vet bonus

Vehicle crews replace the repair critical ability with the following ability, at vet 1 the have a chance to survive vehicle destruction with around 50%HP, then the can merge with a another crew losing 25% of XP.

Repair critical made seance when USF vehicles where UP compared to axis. Currently Sherman and Eays8 are more cost efficient than PZ4 and there is no need for this ability on crews. It can remain on assault engineers making more attractive. This change also helps player remove from the map unwanted crews.

Pioneers and C.E. could become able to benefit from doctrinal weapon upgrades and get G43 and PPsh respectively.



(*) Hand held AT

Jump back to quoted post8 Dec 2015, 19:41 PMSwift

Yeah umm no.

To elaborate, it's their game and in the end, they can spell it how they like. Maintaining British Imperialism through spelling would be odd.

Jump back to quoted post4 Dec 2015, 06:54 AMJohnnyB

No, those were the things that made British sniper OP. It's the only sniper in entire COH history that can damage/block/softcounter its own counter and that is crap my dear sir. I sincerely doubt that he's fine even now, after these so called nerfs.




You know what? I will be verry happy if you would have it at the same level as the ostheer sniper. Because the ostheer sniper can't do shit to vehicles and can't do shit against its own counter.