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Fine to me, but soon pp will realize that m1919 on the hand of tommy or conscript will be nightmare so it should work like the new British m3 and only give weapon to the player who owned the ht.

Didn't really notice that happening at all with the Special Weapons one but sure, fine by me as well.

[503] A. Soldier#2577

Problem with this commander is that you can't give more offensive capabilities to riflemen from balance perspectives. FT on riflemen = OP, more stuff on riflemen = OP.
Imo it would be better to rename the commander Sherman commander and build it around sherman tanks instead of riflemen.

Anyway, Brace before the shitstorm RE+flamethrower on M3 rush Openess.

M1919A6s are already present in other Commanders so I don't think they'd be an issue.

And as far as I remember the M3 Engineer combat group with flamers in Mechanized wasn't that OP altho it's been a long time since the so I might be mistaken.

For me the RE flamers just don't fit thematically and there's way better things to replace them with in my opinion.

As far as a Sherman doctrine goes, I mean Rifle is basically all over the place so yeah I'm guessing that me and a lot of other people are purely just taking it for the E8.

But for a dedicated Sherman commander there would need to be more stuff, like Commander upgrades, Dozer upgrade maybe, HVAP/WP rounds for all Shermans, 76/E8 Sherman, combined arms perhaps since The Sherman was initially meant as an infantry support tank, only later when they started fighting the losing the tank battles against the big cats did they start up-gunning and armoring them and so on.

Basically Elite Armor but for the USF instead and a lot of different things.

i dont understand why m3 half-track adds rifle company seriously. this isnt good patch for rifle company. rifle man doesnt need mobile half track. they just need more fire power or special infantry. i think that rifle company needs a better weapon such as 1919 or call-in infantry such as Rangers.
m3 half track must need to replace another skill.

I technically agree with you.

Rifle Company should have been probably Rifleman Field Defenses, M1919A6 weapon rack unlock, M3/M5 Halftrack, something like Marksman/Sharpshooter training that maybe takes up 1 or 2 weapon slots, similar to the British Recon section from the old CoH and either a Sherman Jumbo or 105 since those were the 2 types of dedicated "infantry support tanks" so to speak in real life so they thematically fit here but the Jumbo would have probably been the best and most unique choice.

Instead it's got some of these changes years after it's initial release (Field defenses and Halftrack) and still doesn't make sense why there are flamethrowers for the RE or an E8 when it's supposed to be just a better more maneuverable version of the basic Sherman.

Those reasons being faction design.
There's a reason the Pershing is the way it is, what with a limit and no ability to decrew. The faction was designed with strength and weakness. The weakness being not having a Panther type vehicle. The strengths being high mobility, firepower, the ability to self heal armour and an ungodly supply of smoke for maneuvering.

USF are not supposed to outlast the enemy armour they are supposed to out maneuvering them. Okw is meant to outlast and they notably have the hardest time keeping their armour in repair (due to expensive engineers), not the easiest like USF (whom every tank IS an engineer)

Right, well "faction design" would have been relevant a few years ago but I doubt it's so anymore.

Simple reason is change, new balance/design focus and so on and so forth.

Most basic example would be the OKW, which were designed to have only 75% from what I remember of resource generation compared to other Armies with their mech HQ providing a conversion of fuel to ammo and vice versa, no stock MG, you could only call in a 34 from either the Luftwaffe or Fortifications doctrine, stock Sturmtiger instead of the Panzer IV Ausf J/H and you get the idea.

Also the USF originally wasn't intended to have a heavy tank from the looks of things and yet here is the Pershing, a late war US heavy tank that saw extremely limited combat in 1945 while the Sherman Jumbo was deployed sometime in 1944 with at all 250 of it's produced vehicles seeing action with various different armored units, the most famous of which would of course be the 2nd and 3rd Armored Divisions, "Cobra King" which had the first in Bastogne sign on it's side that relieved the 101st Airborne at the Battle of the Bulge being from this formation.

So again no, I don't agree with the excuse of faction design anymore, I just think it's shortsightedness and the fact that there is a huge missed opportunity here for a lot of new and interesting units to be introduced, stuff like the Wespe or Grille as self-propelled artillery units for the Axis being some others as well as the M4A4 Shermans for the UKF maybe, 17 pounder Achilles, Archer and probably a lot more.