Profile of Vipper

Name:
Soviet Advance Infantry Tactics or Shtrafbat Tactics or Great Patriotic war tactics

Theme: A commander design for heavy infantry usage but not with very strong call-in unit.

Unit and Ability Roster

Slot 1: Shtrafbat
- Unit built in HQ or Call in available at CP 0
- Cost 180MP can not reinforce
- 8-6 men armed with PPsh total DPS about the same with ostheer pionneer
- Has the following abilities:
Merge

Ourah requires SMERSH aura, ourah has target size and suppression penalties (1.2,1.2 to 0.9,0.9 at vet 3)that are lowered with each vet level achieved and become bonus at vet 3.

Molotov requires vet 1

"redeem in blood" requires vet 3 unit can be refit for Guard troops/ Shock troops / an assault Penal battalion (5 men PPsh + flamer)

Slot 2: Smersh
- Unit built in HQ or Call in available at CP 0 limited to 1
- Cost 280 , 25MP reiforce
- 5 men 1 pistol +4 mosin can be upgrade to DP requires 2 tech buildings
-Has the following abilities:
Smoke Grenade

Inspire aura, passive gives 0.9 target 0.9 suppression only to Shtrafbat

Slot 3: Advance infantry tactics available CP2

4 Upgrade available at HQ in linear sequences similar to BP each requiring a building to be built.

1) Battle training 100/10
allows Shtrafbat to reinforce and Conscript to upgrade to Frontoviki for 30 MU
Frontoviki are designed a defensive infantry get target size 1
Ourah replaced by hit the ground
Molotov replaced by fragmentation grenade
Mosin uses new DPS curve similar to V.G. DPS

2) Paid in blood 100/10
Soviet infantry gain extra experience for taking damage while they award less to enemy squads.

3) Human wave 200/10
Soviet infantry are 1 mp cheaper to reinforce and 1 pop less.

4)Great patriotic war 200/20
Soviet infantry now have 0.95 damage reduction

Slot 4: Field defenses available CP 2
-C.E. can built trenches.
Changes to trenches, Cost 100 password protected, only infantry can use them, provide extra protection from all weapons accepts flamer, elite/stun grenades. Can capped by enemy units and can be dismantle for 50% cost return.

-C.E. can now built mg nest. These are the wooden structure from the campaign called bunker (can be seen in mission 4 in the German outpost), redesign only for mg can garrison in them giving a wider arc but only to one direction.

-C.E. can now built the observation Tower (available in some mission and maps). The structure can be capped.


Slot 5: Precision artillery
- A single accurate artillery round that comes with warning.
- CP 6 cost 90 Mu.

Strategies and Rational
The commander focus on giving soviets access to strong dedicated infantry with clear roles offensive/defensive. The advance infantry training allow the unit to scale while cost resource to reduce spam. The Smersh/Shtrafbat synergy ensures that these unit will not flood the battle field.

The redesign of trenches makes them useful without being spammable and the new mg nest ensure that they can be countered.

Finally the Precision artillery ensures that one can force opponent to relocate.

instead of nerfing them directly we should rather increase deployment recharge so player cannot effectively just spam them.

Again this is my point. If this units come early they should limited in the number they can be produced and they where weapon locked behind tech similar to mainline infantry.

That way they can still come early enough to be part of the army (without being the core of the army) and they can still scale in to late game.

Restriction could include start on cool down, increasing CD, being built from HQ.

I would suggest to actually change sniper, so that they do not kill infantry and do damage and only kill weapon crews.

There latest patches have a tendency to provide early access to doctrinal infantry Like:
Pathfinder
Assault engineers
JLI
Cav. Riflemen
I&R Pathfinder
and so on...

Many of there units can replace mainline infantry they come early and can be produced in number.

Imo these unit should follow certain criteria in their designed:
Designed as mainline infantry offering something the faction does not have (example ostruppen)
Designed as offering a sort term advantage (example assault grenadier)
Designed as support unit offering utility so that they can work with mainline infantry and not replaced them.

Imo many of these unit (and others come) should looked at with this perceptive because currently they simply offer too much.

The following is just my opinion:

1. You can add new content reworking existing abilities to maximize the area of influence of new content (from only 1 commander, to several). Did you even read my full suggestion? Because all i suggested was new content.

That is trying to balance several commander at same time, while allot of them have a broken design to begin with. I complicates the attempt and makes it harder to work. There have been 2 revamps so far and both of them have mediocre results since the solved some issues while creating others.

Imo the game would been in far better place if the focus was on the 8 commanders being revamped and result was 8 viable commanders.

Commander with design issues simply have to redesigned. (Combinations of OP abilities)

As an example imo stuka dive bombing has been overnerfed and the main reason for it was that it was available with Elephant commander and reckon planes. The ability should simply not be in that commander.

2. For what reason would would you add new content? To break more the game? New content should focus two goals, break meta and give diversity to factions (which is balance somehow).

Again the focus should be in the commander being create not used as excuse to "widen" the scope. The new commander should balanced not other commanders.

Cool story bro. That's not gonna happen anytime soon, we need to use every opportunity we have.

Again no the opportunities where used and sweeping changes where made only to find that meta is still narrow, because broken thing where created in the process.

Imo one should decide the power level for commander for each faction by using one commander as benchmark and balanced all other commander vs benchmark.

https://www.coh2.org/topic/85469/suggestions-for-new-revamp-commanders

With number of patches this game has seen if the patch was fixing one thing each time the game should be about balanced right now.