Profile of Tiger Baron

Which part of the B4's design makes you think it'd be a good idea to copy it onto a highly durable mobile chassis?

If you are talking about it being OP let me ask you how many B4 do you actually see in play at any point unless it's for trolling even if it's a 4v4 and it's behind 4 layers of defenses and AA protection? It will get nuked at a certain point, just like every other stationary piece.

As for turning it into an SPG, it would be something entirely unique to the game and to the Axis that are currently lacking compared to the Allies which have the M7 Priest and the Sexton.

There are currently 2 knock-off AVREs for the Ost, those being the Stupa and StuG III E, I don't really think the OKW needs a 170 fuel and 560 manpower slow ass turd that takes it's sweet ass time to fire with it's low range and has a projectile that either blows up on a pebble or has a 50/50 chance of actually doing some damage to something and as you can see in this topic, not even a squad wipe for that cost is just worth it if you ask me and many other people.

It's the same as the B4 currently, just a meme unit you use for the shits and giggles, nothing more.

At least turning it into the Panzer Elite Hummel from CoH would give it some practical use with the same risk and reward mechanic to it.

Bump up the price, give it a longer range and a lock down before being able to fire with a minute cooldown or something so the person pays if they're not guarding or moving it around as they should if found by the enemy and properly attacked.

At the very least that would give it a reason for the cost, speed, manual reload and it being abandoned while the crew is reloading it if under heavy attack.

Only issue with this is how can you blame the people who leave after the first person? If your opponents are even a little good, playing with a CPU is a waste of time

I've had the reverse situation where the AI is wayyy more helpful than the player.

As far as the punishment for leaving goes, maybe no loot points regardless if the game is a win or lose or is that something already a thing that I just haven't noticed?

Other than that, perhaps a deduction of current loot points or inability to join another game right after the one you've left.

Only problem is making the difference between an alt F4 rage quit and a busplat and somebody just tearing out their Internet cable order for losing their connection.

Aren't there any unused models hanging around in the files?

Weapon Crew models, OStruppen or even Volks would probably be the most fitting for "Rapidly conscripted" troops... though of course Volk models shouldn't really enter the OST unit set.

There are sadly no "unused" models from what I remember when I last checked the files.

The only ones that would technically maybe even remotely fit that category as far as infantry is concerned are the heavy weapon crew models which you can see on the Pak 40, Pak 43, LefH and so forth.

Only 2 very nitpicky problems are that they have the red shoulder patch which means that they belong to the artillery branch of the German Armed Forces back then which only a few people that are interested in the history of these units would know and of course, only if they zoom in enough.

The other is of course that they lack the Osttruppen's cool ass backpack or whatever it's called.

So really if we just had Osttruppen models with the stahlhelm it'd be perfect.

But still the weapon crew models still somewhat fit the whole "relief" infantry narrative as a cheap squad to replace the combat losses, problem is of course that they then overlap with the Osttruppen altho I'd argue that at this point they've become a mainline infantry replacement for the Grenadiers with fading effectiveness as the match continues, while a new maybe 5 man squad that's not as cheap as them that could be maybe effective also after the halfway point of the game could be useful.

If given a unique upgrade like let's say a Panzerbüche 39 package they could be considered as German Allied infantry such as the Hungarians, Romanians, Italians and so forth that also fought on the Eastern Front.

Edit:

I found my other topic talking about it with pictures from my very old mod where I replaced the Grenadier models with the ones I'm talking about:

- Running to a trench
- Hanging around a trench
- In a Church

2 questions on my part since this is very interesting mechanic wise to me:

1. What do you have in mind for Relief Infantry, something similar or entirely different? I'd be all for a somewhat same system but with more unique Osttruppen that you can get which can merge or something else.

2. Do you think this is also possible for tanks as well, ala American Industry or whatever it was called for the US in CoH's Armor Company? It's been a while since I checked the modding tools so this intrigues me if it's possible.

I'm gonna go with...
-because that faction with 4 men got multiple ways to heal and reinforce on field from very early game onward and non doctrinally. And its being actually used more often then FRP of that 6 man faction.

Oh excuse me, I thought it was to help maintain field presence because of said 4 man squads compared to the 6 man squads which are in need of less actual babysitting and losing 2-3 models isn't as bad as the other side but I guess I'm wrong about that.

I suppose I'm also wrong to assume that something that's not doctrinal is used more often because well, it's not doctrinal while something that's doctrinal needs you to actually choose a specific commander locking you out of other options.

If only I could spend all of my days wasting away on the internet in order to have the correct opinion instead of going to work and having a life in general.