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So I tried to replicate SneakEye's thing with ZiS truck instead of WC-51. It's pretty barebones, lacking things like medical crates and whatnots. Either way, the truck is just a bit too tall and clips with the camo net.

Medkits can be added, it is not the problem i guess. And truck can be flip through 180° to not break off the camonet. But looks very promising i say!

I have looked at suggested variants for soviet FHQ and here my though about it.

Outward appearance

Current FHQ provide:
- healing
- reinforcing
- attack and defence bonuses for infantry and infantry weapons (Mortars, AT-guns, Artillery)

Also, it should not be extremely big to avoid problems with construction on city or small spaces maps. Of course, to small construction can't have enough durability and can be spammable in huge numbers, it's not right too.

As result, FHQ outlook should reference to this characteristics.

Candidates (british FHQ for comparison):


Candidate 1


Pros:
- High durability seems obvious for it due materails (looks like it is from wood and metal with huge wall of sandbags).
- Have space for field hospital. So, reinforce is beyond any doubt.

Cons:
- It is extremely big, player can face the problem with consctruction on smallspace map or on city maps. Also, it will be the biggest soviet construction ever
- Not enough details inside in comparison with USF, OKW and UKF field consrtuctions. Nothing provide about healing and aura buffs

Candidate 2 (my favorite)


Pros:
- Good size of building. Player won't face the problem with construction.
- Good interior. Include medkits, shells and camonet above. Really looks like FHQ, which provide support and reinforce.

Cons:
- Player can be confused by WC-51. At the moment only USF has this jeep in the game. But historicaly USSR get more than 20 000 of these jeeps.
- In the mod, it is mobile jeep with abillity to set up. Will be funny to see how combat engineers construct jeep for everlasting campsite. Can be solved by adding this jeep to soviet HQ as doctrine unit with price of FHQ and free abillity to set up.

Candidate 3

Pros:
- It's extremely small.
- Has place for mobile command post.

Cons:
- Once again - extremely small. Can be spammable for multiple buffs.
- Low durability. It is just small tent and some sandbags. Even british FHQ looks more durable.
- Bad interior. Nothing mention about healing, reinforce and aura buffs.

There's a retexture planned for the British FHQ? That could work a bit, but that wouldn't fix those Brens and PIATs lying around. That USF forward base building is pretty good too. I just tried to avoid using ambient buildings.

It can be solved with "glassy" textures for Bren and Piat. They will remain on 3D model, but invinsible for eyes. Idk about retexturing, i want to believe it is possible. Maybe somebody has a contact of Starbuck?

This is already a much better design for a unique building in my opinion, even tho I haven't even seen the retextured British FHQ for the Soviets.

Another alternative is probably the building SneakEye is using in his All Units mod for the USF as a forward base.

Seen here:

(Top middle)

Just in case, the model is: "environment/objects/buildings/domination_bonus_01/domination_bonus_01"

This USF HQ so huge, what about british counterpart with jeep? It looks more like forward for me. And futhermore, it has medkits inside of it.
P.S. WC-51 were used by Soviet Union, so it is ok to have them.

The units in the actual game are often named incorrectly - therefore this thread deals only with the available models in the game files. Since the model with the quad-mounted .50 is based on the M5, I would say it's an M17 and simply named incorrectly in the Tactical Support Company, even though the M17 wasn't used by US forces, as far as I know.

Once again

Actually, both models in the game are M3 Halftrack, soviet one is littlechanged M3 model from vCoH.

It is more like two different models for M3 Halftrack, instead of special model for each halftrack. Quad-mounted M45 is also from vCoH.
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And main visual difference between M5 and M3 in real life - M5 has rounded rear corners.

Thanks, I fixed it. It was a typo and because of that I looked up the wrong numbers
There's only the M17 in COH2 though, right?

M16 based on M3 Halftrack. M17 based on M5 Halftrack.
And M16, and M17, presented in the game, but have fully same 3D-Model, because somebody created M3 Halftrack model without possibilty to upgrade it with quad, because of that was used model from soviet M5 Halftrack.
You can find M16 in calliope doctrine as upgraded M5