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Since I see other people are baffled by the mortar being gone from Lend-Lease, maybe either it being replaced by a Priest or Advanced Emplacements having a 25 pounder emplacement instead like in the All Units mod?

Brits seem to be lacking both non-doctrinal and doctrinal indirect fire units in general so more mobile or at least well protected/unique ones could be of use.

Too bad we don't have a proper 4.2 inch mortar model, unless the Soviet HM-38 one is used or something.

Hello, this is my suggestion based on observations for a new addition as a unit to the Ostheer commanders in the next update.

Now my idea was originally revolving around giving a unique King Tiger to the Mobile Defense Doctrine as it already has an OKW lend-lease sort of theme going for it and plus after the Puma changes and now also the removal of the Osttruppen it loses it's appeal even more if you ask me, but it could also be placed in other doctrines as well I suppose.

This could be an Ace or Command variant of the tank with an S-mine launcher, similar to the Sturmtiger's one which would be a new ability for the Ostheer and also a smoke pod ability similar to the Sherman's one.

The reason for these 2 abilities being that the King Tiger, like the late Tiger Ausf. E and Panther Ausf. Gs had this little contraption mounted on top of the turret: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahverteidigungswaffe



Without trying to pronounce it's German name, it's basically a small turret mounted grenade type launcher that was operated by the loader using a periscope inside the turret where he was safe. He could load and fire either a smoke or s-mine type explosive grenade, as well as a flare one but I guess that's not really needed here (?).

As for the theming, King Tigers, like Tigers, were for the most part put into Heavy Tank Battalions, the Wehrmacht ones numbering from 501 to 511th, the Waffen SS ones from 101st to 103rd and there were also side units that used these tanks like an organic battalion of the Grossdeutschland Division, a company of the Panzer Lehr and a bunch of other riff-raff units.

Kurt Knispel, the top tank ace still in the world was part of one of the previously mentioned Heavy Tank Battalions of the Wehrmacht, the 503rd which was deployed first to Normandy in 1944 in anticipation of Operation Overlord, and then redeployed to the Eastern Front in Hungary where it was renamed to the Feldherrnhalle Heavy Tank Battalion, part of the Division and later Panzerkorps of the same name.



So it makes sense in the theme of the doctrine being OKW troops and material being transferred from the West to the East in that regard at least.

Anyway, it could maybe replace the Command Panzer IV or the Osttruppen instead of the Observation post instead in my opinion.

Welp, that's about it. Just wanted to throw my idea out there for people to toy around with maybe for the Mobile Defense or other doctrines possibly for the Ostheer.

Cheers.

I'm a bit confused on which part of the changes we can comment on here since the changelog topic that's linked has 2 sections and they are "Commander Changes" and "General Changes", the latter which is faction specific and the reason for the other topics I'm assuming?

Either way, I guess I'll just give my opinion on the Commander Changes section here.

For the British the Counter Battery being replaced by Hold the Line makes sense as it was nerfed into oblivion basically and not very useful however I think there were better alternatives to replace it with that would be better suited for more defensive and static oriented players like for example tank traps and so forth.

I am however very much questioning the mortar section of the Lend-Lease Regiment being replaced as that was the main draw of the commander, the main point on why me and several other people suggested it in the first place all those many months ago.

A lot of people will probably say that I'm biased because of that since I was one of the people that suggested and thus it's my "baby" that I will protect but in reality again as I said already my main idea behind it was giving the British a mobile-indirect fire that didn't cost fuel, thus a mortar team that could actually move.

I guess that's less needed now with the mortar pit being salvageable and less costly to field but still, maybe it could have been replaced by a 4.2 inch mortar using the Soviet HM-38 120mm mortar model or something, perhaps a Priest even?

For OKW again it's nice that the defensive abilities were put into a single one and for the Fatherland gives you something to spend your munitions on but I think something like hull down, a hidden feature of OKW tanks could have been put to good use here for those more static oriented and defensive focused people, similar to the British Advanced Emplacements, since that's the whole team of these doctrines.

The Artillery Flares being changed or replaced was indeed needed so that's a welcome change I guess, they were sadly very abusable.

Ostheer is in a bit of a weird position I would say.

The Commander Panzer IV could be changed up to be a more unique vehicle instead of just replaced like that without being either UP or OP in my opinion. Or hell, maybe it could even be turned into some sort of Ace unit or something with a command mode similar to the OKW Tiger.

As far as the Panzer IV J goes, I really like this tank but the only issue I have with it is that I think the name is wrong. If it's the Ausf J version then it would mean that it lacks a turret rotation motor thus making it cheaper to produce but since the turret is hand cranked it'd be slower to turn obviously as you can read here: https://tanks-encyclopedia.com/panzerkampfwagen-iv-ausf-j/

So the more correct name would be Panzer IV Ausf. H since that's the version of the tank in the game I believe, fitted with the "Schürzen" Armored skirts and the final version of it's 75mm gun.

Festung Support has some interesting changes with the Supply Station which is our real first glimpse of it in real use in the actual game, altho losing it's Artillery support unit is a sort of downside of it as well perhaps.

German Mechanized with the new Vehicle Repair Crew ability might also peak the interest of other tank heavy users like me but to be honest without a tank call in I don't see it being used all that much even with that for just 1 new ability.

Joint Ops again might see some more use from static focused players.

I don't really have an opinion on the rest of the Ost changes since I don't really play those commanders. Sadly Mobile Defense lost it's appeal with the hard nerf to the Puma, maybe something like a King Tiger could bring it back up.

Speaking of which, it actually brings me to a suggestion on how to implement the KT in to the Ostheer as a doctrine unit. It could be modeled after Kurt Knispel who is still the top tank ace in the world with somewhere 168 "confirmed" tanks destroyed, altho some say it could be more like around 200 but anyway, the tank could be an Ace or a Commander variant of sorts with the unique ability of the S mine launcher, similar to the Sturmtiger, which would be completely new for the Ostheer, plus instead of the Panzer Tactician smoke, have Sherman like smoke ability and maybe even an infantry inspire ability? The possibilities are really endless.

I don't play Soviets so I won't comment on them and thus I end my somewhat long post here.

The okw tries to represent the army Group B that launched Ardennes Counteroffensive and that is why it aggressiveness design. (and resources hungry in initial design)

I'm well aware of that but we only understood it with the release of the Ardennes Assault campaign, not beforehand.

And honestly building an Army around a campaign is really short sighted if you ask me, not that the Panzer Elite of CoH were any different in that regard but still, they somewhat did their job of portraying the Panzer Lehr Division there.

Ostheer isnt weak, its just that OKW is way stronger this patch than anyone here wants to admit to yet. I feel like ostheer as currently implemented should be the balance level all other factions should strive for.

Always has been this way in my opinion, similar to again how the Panzer Elite outshined the Wehrmacht in the original Company of Heroes.

Superior infantry when fully upgraded, self-propelled mobile artillery in the form of the Hummel, manpower double call in Panthers which I believe were cheaper to tech to than the Wehrmacht Panthers, zombie tank ability with the Bergetiger, arguably better defensive options with the Luftwaffe doctrine, best AT in the game with the Tank Destroyer doctrine and so forth.

The Wehrmacht only really had it's weapon teams and maybe the Blitzkrieg doctrine to rely on to stay competitive with the PE in comparison, otherwise Defensive was very heavily static focused and prone to arty while Terror... At least I was never really a fan of it, especially after they removed the Tiger Ace and replaced it with the single use King Tiger which never really made sense to me.

I don't even know where to find hacks for this game, let alone care enough to use them. I hover around garbage-tier rank 7-9 in 2's. There are in fact so little rewards for being higher rank in this game, I don't even see the reason for hacking - the goal of this game is singular: to have a good game.

That said, I am banned for who knows how long, and who knows what for. No e-mail, no notification. The only information I can find I had to hunt for on my own, which says I must submit a dispute and provide evidence for how I am innocent. As if we hadn't spent 2 world wars and around 10,000 years establishing a rule of law that operated on the INSANE notion that a man was innocent until proven guilty. Fitting that the moderator that posted this is named after a Nazi war machine - and God I'm so hesitant to use that word, but this behavior is just so utterly goddamn fascistic I have to.

All I know is I haven't played this game in weeks, and I fire it up for a single game yesterday and win a pretty good one - lots of back and forth with us coming out on top. I log on today and now I'm banned.

How many people like me got this and will just walk away? How many people will actually bother to dig around to find the process to fix this? Will my case even be addressed? Is it worth it to get rid of a few Chinese hackers or whatever it is that brought this insanity?

Spare us the bullshit propaganda professor, you sound like a liberal arts college student.

Boohoo a staff member has Sturm in his name, so what we ban all words containing it or Storm in English?

Snow and winter storms, rainstorms, storms in general now not only kill people and damage property, but also apparently offend people as well.

I suggest you lay off the Russian propaganda movies and focus on another major, something that gives you some actual life skills instead of being offended all of the time skills.