Profile of Vipper

Shouldn't they beat osttruppen and pios though? I mean, osttruppen are like 15 to reinforce and pios are engineers.

Hmg crews beating flanking unit should not happen, especially if the reinforcement cost is the same with original hmg crew.

FRP magnifies any imbalances in infantry much ups and increases the snowball effect. Proliferating FRP would actually be bad for balance.

They impact should simply be lessen.

The only change we've done with respect to trucks is the T4 truck.

T4 costs considerably less to setup. Thus, even if you lose your truck, you can still setup a new one and still get access to Obers (which you will need post-Volks-nerfs) and JP4 (which you will also need, given that you are now on the defensive after being pushed off).

If you had previously researched the T4 assault group upgrade, you can also, still, skip rebuilding T4 and go for a King Tiger.

Losing access to the revamped Panther and the revamped P4 are part of the risk-reward deal; if you place your T4 too greedily and lose it, you have to play defensively while you recover.

The changes to T4 pricing are so that other recovery options become available, rather than just King Tiger.

Having heal and retreat in different places cripples the faction thus there is little point in placing T1 outside base.

Placing T2 outside base offers very little.

As for the KT the main issue is that it can be instantly replaced. Simply add a cooldown for the ability after the units is destroyed (same should go for other vehicles limited to 1)

Placing T3 outside needs an upgrade to be able to defend itself and further upgrades to produce units so aggressive placing is not a worth while investment.

In addition the whole KT only complicates things.

Suggestions:
1) Have truck start with less HP and less Range for T4 truck
2) Allow them to buy upgrades to increase armor/HP and range to current levels
3) Lock truck upgrades behind second trucks placement to delay the upgrades

With the changes the aggressive placement of truck will be less potent initially but still an option and will gradually become stronger.

Is this still your impression after using Volks in the mod?

This points I made to about VG is not balance issues but design issues.

Having units with good DPS at all ranges is bad design.

Allowing units mainline infantry to easily deny cover from enemy is bad design.

Allowing to always defend from green cover is bad design.

The stug e didnt have a "slow moving projectile" it had a low velocity gun and in consequence the projectile wasnt as fast as a projectile fired from a high velocity gun (but was still a fast projectile). By being a "slower projectile" it lacked penetrating power and thus pz4's and stug's that had this gun were used to support infantry and used HE shells. So imo instead of the shell that the stug e has at the moment it would make a lot more sense to give it the HE shell of the sherman.

The StuK 37 gun was howitzer and thus used high angle of fire (indirect fire), the Sherman use a gun with low angles (direct) so they are different. This is not an issue of munition since both used HE.

What actually would make sense would be to replace the TWP ability with direct fire mode with a range of 40-45 (timed or number of shots)so it can defend vs light tanks (AP shell where available for the gun).

(about projectile speed: In game weapon with ballistic trajectories use "slow projectiles" direct fire weapon use fast projectiles. 17p has no projectile when first appeared to indicate the very high speed projectile).

I don't get why sandbags are a problem? The squad is highly vulnerable while building them and they take really long to finish. Additionally, sandbags only work when playing as a defensive faction, which means only UKF really profits from their mainline inf to build them (as Ost needs Pioneers).

If riflemen or VG build sandbags you need a numerical superiority to dislodge from their position. The same will happen with Conscripts if they receive all the buff from EFA revamp.

IMO The current issue with VG is threefold, the combination ST44 and incendiary grenade allows them to be very aggressive and cap sectors, while the sandbags allows them to defend the ares they have capped.

Generally speaking green cover should not be so widely available since it alters map design.