Profile of General Tao

It's based on the firing units location? I was under the impression it was based off the impact location, since that would make way more sense. Source?

Sure, source: https://www.coh2.org/topic/36347/cruzz-s-the-more-you-know

Green cover reduces damage from all attacks that aren't flamebased, including grenades and mortars which people tend to consider counters to cover. Whether the -50% damage is applied to a weapon depends on where it was FIRED from rather than on where the attack lands.

Apologies to Cruzz if I'm misinterpreting this, but having directional cover from point of origin applied to mortars and grenades does tally with my experience that grenades can insta-wipe squads in cover if thrown from behind their cover, and my experience of mortar fire on units you've forced to reposition so that the mortar is flanking them.

i said double the aoe and if need buff the mortar fire rate

You said

make all explosive weapon , nade,and indirect fire deal less than 80 damage (40-50) while doubling the aoe.

I consider that an insane explosives nerf. For a start it would make Sturmtigers and AVREs completely useless, as others have pointed out.

I think reworking of the barrage ability would be a better way to counter the RNG.

Interesting pol, made me go away and read what Bartle's theory was! Best of luck with your research.

One suggestion (if you can still edit the pol) would be to just have year of birth rather than birthday - people are generally less inclined to give their actual birthday than they are the actual year of their birth. Unless you actually need to break it down by month and day.

I remember I did a thread about them awhile ago, I'll just paste it right here:

When Lend-Lease first came out, the Assault Guard/ M5 Half-Track combo made sense. it provided a nice T1/T4 play, skipping T2 and T3.

But this is the current year, and the soviet teching has changed, and why get the M5 Halftrack/Assault Guards when you can just get the regular M5 Halftrack by itself and possibly earlier than the 5CP requirement of the call-in?

This can be solved in a number of ways:

SOLUTION 1

-Reduce CP requirement to 4 CP
-Replace the M5 Halftrack callin with a special M5 Munitions Halftrack that act like the Brit's M3 truck by dropping LMG and PTRS goodies to fellow comrades.

I wholeheartedly support this idea with one tweak - The M5 munitions halftrack should drop BARs and zooks (there already is the model in the game - the AI sometimes picks a hidden commander with it).

It's a the Lend-Lease doctrine after all - give those Soviets some US weaponry!

Most of this looks good on paper - interested to see how it works in-game

The only thing I don't like about this is the units spawning at buildings rather than coming from off map. can anyone tell me why did they change this? It was more immersive having them run in from off map!

OKW Panzershreck

This will allow vehicles to kite the pansershrecks which will effectively kill any panzershreck blob because 1 vehicle kitting back will be able to counter this now. You may not agree but I believe that having shrecks on volks give the race flavor and allows OKW to be aggressive

• Reduce Panzershreck range by 5
  

IMO this change isn't really solving the problem of volk blobbing and is just promoting the silly-looking tactic of kiting with tanks. Tanks were built for pushing, putting pressure on the enemy and allowing an assault to break the grind of trench warfare.

As long as the Panzershreck remains such an effective AT weapon, all this change will encourage is the horde of volks charging shermans etc. as they back away frantically trying to get the RNG necessary to deal enough dmg to force them to retreat. Not only is this frustrating gameplay (on both sides), but it looks completely ****ing stupid and is completely anathema to the WWII setting.

Having AT on volks gives them flavour and allows for aggressive play, I agree. But the shreck is just too effective to be given to starting infantry so easily. It's fine on the PanzerGrens as it requires a 120 muni investment and a specialisation to an AT unit. But for volks it's a problem, and I think fausts and/or AT rifles would fit them much better.

Finally, if this change only applies to OKW panzershrecks, you will now have the problem of the Ost panzershreck being much better and players who pick up a panzershreck may not know what the range is (particularly in larger games with both Ost and OKW), leading to even more frustration.