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Can you bring these mod ideas here?

Thanks

Sorry for the late reply but I got hung up on work and stuff.

Basically it's mostly from SnakeyEye's "All Units Mod" such as the 25 pounder with it's emplacement from CoH, AT Hetzer, air dropped WC51, flamethrower tanks like the Sherman Crocodile and OT-34, recovery Halftrack and Funkwagen 223, loads of defenses and emplacements like the concrete bunkers, British trenches from CoH, Panzerturm, Mortar Bunker and so forth.

I also wanted to give a special shotout to this mod: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=909803416

It gives the ability to team weapons such as the Pak 40 to "dig in" which basically just spawns their respective emplacements around them and the Pak 43 can also fire indirectlly and be used as an artillery piece/field gun which is also very cool in my opinion and have always wanted to see that in CoH, also the ability for dedicated field artillery guns to fire directly like the B4 is also most welcome, gives some additional versatility to these units.

More unused stuff - BULLETINS affect units.

Those abilities were present in the UKF Alpha for the mortar pit but were sadly removed for one reason or another, without the need for an Intel bulletin.

I actually think it was a better alternative to what they did now to be honest, it still required micro while being effective and practical.

I always felt it was a little odd that the OKW trucks had less functionality than Opposing Fronts British trucks. By which I mean the means to pack up and relocate.

But your idea I think has some merit. I don't know about transporting units since it's a rather slow (and very fragile) unit, but the ability to reinforce might be interesting.

The Transport function will act more like a surprise than anything else really.

Think of it like this, you purposely bait your enemy with a lone sWS and once he attacks it and boom, 2 squads come out.

Hello, so I had this idea a long time ago but recently someone also mentioned it, I think it was AEgion but I'm not so sure.

Anyhow, my suggestion is for the sWS to be able to transport and reinforce infantry in the field since it's basically a Halftrack, but of course it's ability to reinforce would be tied to tech somehow, perhaps with an upgrade in the HQ.

The reason for it is that because the OKW is the only Army that doctrinally cannot move or have more than 1 reinforcement point in the field.

The Ostheer have their command bunkers and 251 HT, the Soviets have their M3 Halftrack, the USF have their Ambulance and the UKF have their Forward Assembly, they can either be moved or can have more than one.

So because of the situation in which the OKW is in, as I have experienced it, once you setup your medical HQ and it's found by the enemy it's pretty easy for him to guess your units' retreat paths and even bomb the ever living shit out of it when you have your infantry around it to heal up and reinforce.

To that end how I imagine it would be like is that the sWS being able to reinforce will provide you with an additional option to reinforce in the field and still be mobile, healing will be done with the use of the Sturmpioneers' medical crates but you will of course not be able to retreat to it like with the medical HQ.

An upgrade will be added to the HQ allowing you to have 2 sWS Halftracks on the field at any given time until you build all of your HQs, after that you will only have access to 1 sWS. This upgrade will require the Mech or Schwerer Panzer HQ in order to research to keep things balanced.

This will also free up the Opel Blitz truck slot from the Feursturm doctrine and eliminate the need for any further mobile reinforcement calls in future or changes in the current doctrines while keeping things unique.

And lastly I think that it will be fairly balanced taking into account the slow speed and fragile nature of the sWS, plus only being able to have 1 on the field to reinforce from once you have all of your HQ researched means that it won't even require a pop cap and it would be pretty simple to do developer wise.

That's about it, just decided to make it's own topic here instead of writing it somewhere else.

Cheers.

Great guide! Can I request a guide for several other units such as the 250 Halftrack with MG and Hetzer? eliw00d made one for the 250 HT on the official forums but a lot of people don't know about it, but I have no idea how to do it for the Hetzer. An MG upgrade for the Churchill tanks would also be awesome if possible since I remember seeing a picture with it but there was no guide for it, I think it was again made by Planet Smasher because it's not present in the All Units Mod.