Profile of Tiger Baron

Too bad the 250 is shit and the 251 one isn't an open topped variant for some reason.

But other than that, I had a lot of fun doing that with the M3 HT from the Special Weapons Regiment, really gave some much needed mobility to my Heavy Royal Engineers.

If its barrage range is over half the map it certainly would help counter the mg42. The brits are a primarily defensive faction and thats reflected in the pit (poorly, but reflected none the less) the max range of the barrage would be your line in the sand and when the enemy crosses that line they feel it.

That said, if pits had a toggle to attach their barrage range free on the pyro flares i would not be upset in the least. A little more rapid, light damage in between the 25lb shells might be a thing of beauty

It probably will, on 1v1, 2v2 and small 3v3 maps at the most but keep in mind that we are talking about balance across all modes and maps here.

Not just competitive people are playing this game but like I said, the majority of the community are casual people playing the game just to relax for a few hours and have a nice time.

The issue of balance between the realms is also the reason why I suggested there be 2 separate balance modes. One for the smaller 1v1 and 2v2 competitive game mode and 1 for the bigger and more casual 3v3 and 4v4 game mode to keep everyone happy.

Not radical in implemtation, but radical in how it changes the gameplay. A simpler buff to range would make it useable again without the potential for unforeseen second and third order of effects as a result on such a big change in how the mortars are used.

I just think it’s a safer bet to go with incremental changes rather than a whole new way of playing the mortar pit.

But that’s just my opinion. Lol

Again, there is nothing radical about it. The base 25 pounders are just replaced by mortars firing after the IS lob the flare and the base 25 pounders can fire independently without the IS, that's about it, if of course we're going by what he wants to do.

the mortar pit's autofire will still be 80m, meaning the mortar pit's purpose is to provide the tommies with an off map. The FOO upgrade is painfully obvious and would be the primary target of every axis player.

If the british have the FOO tommy hang back it's 7 pop, 280 mp, 45+ mu not contributing to the fire fight

Apart from that like I said if the mortar pit happened to be firing at another squad, possibly an enemy mortar trying to counter it for example, and you throw the IS flares the mortar will start firing there instead of at the enemy mortar or other squad coming to take it out. And believe me this will happen more often than not because you can't constantly divide your attention between your infantry squads, your HQ, any vehicles or other emplacements you have and also pay attention to your mortar pit or what's it firing at and so forth.

And I would like to again point out that the pit's main problem is it's survivability. It's the only non-doctrinal indirect fire unit that cannot move, and that's a huge problem especially given now that it has a shorter range.

Literally the only thing it had going for it before was it's range and arguably fire rate.

It's auto barrage range has been nerfed, it's fire rate has been nerfed with the removal of the bonus from the FA requiring you to garrison it with an infantry unit, something the British just cannot sacrifice in order to bring their mortar to fully operational level.

Now I understand that before, especially with the Bofors, it was a cancerous and OP combo, but Advanced Emplacements was also nerfed along with the Bofors so good luck getting any emplacement to survive to vet 3 in the late game, especially when things have changed so much that it's also easier to approach and kill the mortar pit as well now, which wasn't the case before.

The simple truth is that the British while still cancerous were at least playable before, now with all of these competitive oriented patches they have become perhaps harder and extremely less fun, at least for me.

This is not a game where it's ok to build emplacements anymore, emplacements were never meant to be permanent defense structures anyhow but it becomes a problem when your only indirect fire option is an emplacement with a low range requiring you to constantly babysit it.

Sooo this is basically the CoH Victor target of the Captain, but instead of player built 25 pounders firing, it's player built mortars?

I could see that working, but then if you lose the IS section with the flares the mortars basically become useless unless they are not built in the safety of the base sector and still have their normal auto barrage ability.

Which would then make this pointless as the problem with the mortar pit is it's inability to move, and thus survive.

So even if you get another IS with flares their effectiveness again comes under questions, especially mid and late game where there is a bigger chance of them getting wiped. So having to keep buying IS with flares just to use your mortars sound a bit iffy.

Then there's the 2nd scenario where the mortar pit is built on the frontline and would be hell to babysit because you'd need to divide your attention between the defense of the pit and the flare IS and what they're targeting.

Now like I said, I like the idea and it seems realistic to me that an in direct fire unit would need a spotter in order to fire at long ranges but in practice it only worked in CoH because you usually built the 25 pounders wayyy back in defended lines, they had longer range and their firing abilities had a timer on them after use, so using the captain's Victor target was actually worth it.

While here you have something that's shorter ranged and costly in the early game because of the manpower shortage of the British, and again, if built in the back in a safe place, it's auto barrage potential is wasted, if at the front you'd need to babysit and devide your attention between it and other things constantly and most people cannot reach that high of an APM like some Starcraft pros can.

The game would be more fun if every faction had diverse opening units like ostheer and soviets. The game feels wrong when players exploit factional weaknesses. If I know some dummy is going to spam one unit, I should be able to smash him with a good strategy. Commanders are the only way to smash factional weaknesses, but they leave you without access to basic units(rocket arty,elite troops,heavy tanks, offs map for turtles,etc)

Tell that to the people preaching that the Armies will lose their uniqueness then.