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Jump back to quoted post4 Dec 2017, 16:01 PMMr.Smith

I don't see something fundamentally wrong with a doctrine having access to a lot of call-in units as long as:
- it doesn't force you to use all of them (i.e., leaves it up to you to decide which tools are right for which occasion)
- the doctrine doesn't provide you with an easy-mode cookie-cutter buildorder you can use to stranglehold your opponent

The first one means that a doctrine has sufficiently enough depth to allow you to use it in multiple ways (as opposed to, say, Lightning War). The second objective means that players that have to counter said doctrine won't be hating themselves if they have to play against it every single time (as opposed to live-version Penal-Lend-lease or Mechanised Assault of yesteryear).

Having played the doctrine a lot more, the weakest link appears to be the M3-AssEng bundle, in that it forces you to have both, when you only want one of them.

Perhaps the best way to resolve this one is make M3 appear empty, and give the M3 an ability to call-in Assault Engineers at full price if you want to have an AssEng (or if you want to buy replacements).

That's because for most of the maps you would really want to use M3 halftracks (i.e., open maps) you don't really need AssEng, and for the kind of maps you want to use AssEng, you really don't want duplicate M3's all the damn time.

As for the M21 MHT I would still build at least 1 of them; especially vs campy players, even if autoattack was completely removed. This is due to the sheer utility that a separate cooldown on smoke barrage gives you, which allows you to double up with White Phosphorus shells or a normal barrage.

Jump back to quoted post1 Dec 2017, 13:34 PMMr.Smith

Could we possibly get away with some soft buffs instead? e.g., lowering ISG price, given its lower performance, or decreasing FlakHT setup time to halfway between Vet0 or Vet2 (or already give it vet2 setup time vanilla).



Feel free to suggest a price. Currently they're 340MP cost, 40MP reinforce, 80MU LMG upgrade and 60MU STG upgrade. Their main bottleneck is supposed to be munitions. If that isn't the case we should bump something else up.