Profile of Zaatos

I like the rework. The 3 man spawn will take some getting used to but it might be ok. I think maybe air dropping them instead of spawning might be an ok idea.
The flak is great now it's a good trade-off between deadly but easy to kill.
I found the the recon+smoke drop to be a really good combo especially coupled with valiant assault!
Perhaps reduce the cost of airborne assault and remove the fallschrims drop?

I like the wc51 is a designated troop transport, it seems it like it could lead to some interesting tactics but it dies so easily it's dangerous to use close to the enemy.

I think the truck being 200 mp for a transport and another 60 munitions is too high. By time you might have 2 Jeeps with the mg upgrade they're nearly obsolete due to all the other AT and enemy units on the field. Also you won't have those 120 munitions to use on grenades and other weapons. Then the raid ability costs munitions which overall leaves a munition starved opening.

I don't really care for the raid ability considering us vehicles can capture territory anyway by leaving the vehicle. I almost never going myself using the ability even if it does give infantry a small buff.

The mortar halftrack seems ok but when coupled with the the m3 halftrack they just seemed to clash as both come at about the same time and you'll have to choose between the 2 out set yourself back in fuel. Furthermore the us doesn't need the halftrack to transport troops since they have the Jeep. The ambulance does the same thing as the m3 but for cheaper.

76mm Sherman seemed good i didn't get to try the bulldozer upgrade but I'm glad it came back from the original coh. It's nice to have something to clear obstacles/hedges.

Overall i think the Jeep and mg should be cheaper. Maybe 150mp and 35 munitions? I think the m3 should be taken out as well as the raid ability. I think the retrofit ability should be added back with a slight buff to it's resource refund. Maybe give a vehicle speed boost like the encirclement commander has.

Also prioritize vehicles in the 76mm Sherman wasn't working for me. They continued to attack infantry.

????? USF dont have good infantry and light vehicles?!!! WTF. Imagine your smoke was on ur pack howitzer for a second.

They are trying to make it so people stop spamming rifle builds and use rear echelons more often in conjunction with riflemen. ATM USF is the faction that uses the least combined arms why? because they don't have to when riflemen can be equipped to do everything

My point was okw doesn't need snipers to deal with mgs, they've got plenty of quick light vehicles, flame nades, and other tools to deal with them. A lmg ober will handle a maxim a lot better than a barred riflemen against an mg34.

Smoke on pack howitzers not a bad idea, good suggestion.

Yeah i was suggesting other ways to get smoke off of riflemen... Not sure what your point here is.

Lel I was like, are we talking about the faction with the only vehicle that suppress on the move ? XD

Actually all allied factions have a vehicle that suppresses on the move. I think vetted luchs can supress as well?

I can see the problem of riflemen having smoke grenades and making mgs much less useful against the US however i don't think simply switching which squads carry them will make gameplay more or less interesting. Making rear echelons designated smoke mules doesn't seem like a very fun fix. Officers and rest echelons aren't a bad choice though.

So the USF need smoke since they don't have snipers like most other factions do. OKW may be a small exception but fortunately the isgs are getting smoke, they have good early vehicles and decent infantry.

I'm going to suggest a few more unique changes instead, some more radical,but still fun to brainstorm.

1. Recon team - weak 2 man squad with medium range rifles. Abilities include binoculars that increase LOS of a particular direction and a smoke barrage ability/bombing run.
2. HQ ability to call down a creeping smoke barrage though fog of war anywhere on your half of the map. Nearby officers increase this range beyond your half of the map.
3. Light vehicle smoke rounds ability - switch vehicle ammo to non lethal smoke rounds/grenades and increase vehicle attack range. Maybe throw the centaur vet 1 ability on there for use when switched to smoke rounds.

Now that I've typed this all out i think option 2 with a low cool down sounds more fun. Maybe allow pathfinders to increase that hq aability range as well. Not sure if this would be more fun to play against though, atleast you'd know to target specific squads if they're past that halfway point.

Another idea, put the hq ability on fighting emplacements and again allow certain infantry to increase that range when nearby.

Panther's veterancy is what makes it a real problem in team games. It gets Blitz, armor/HP and reload speed.

It is easy to rank it up due to the fact that chasing is not an option in 4vs4 so the monstrous armor can usually back out despite driving into tank-destroyers and AT weapons. The panther might not kill your tanks, but it will always penetrate where all but tank destroyers are going to bounce a lot.

Panther (in team games) is a beast because:
• High Mobility
• Heavy Tank stats
• Tank Destroyer (50 range)
• Ok anti-infantry
• Spammable
• Hard to vet-up against it

Panther renders all ally generalist tanks (T34 85, E8 and even Comet) obsolete because only AT weapons/tank destroyers can reliably penetrate Panther's front armor.

The solution could be making the popcap 22/24 or giving it veterancy bonuses like Comet's (Vet 1 Blitz, Vet 2 Targeting bonuses, Vet 3 additional mobility).

Pamthers are just extremely different to kill unless over extended. When it comes to team games most maps are too small(in larger team games) to do an effective flank without running into heavy tanks, at guns, AT infantry, and snares then you're dead in the water. This means that pretty much the only counter is TD unless you get lucky with mines or some commander abilities. I think heavy tanks (Panthers and tigers) should behave like slower fortresses. Nothing's more frustrating than trying to get that rear armour behind these heavy tanks with the allied medium and be unable to, do to them reversing at nearly the same speed your tanks driving forward at. Furthermore they have 2 emergency buttons. Smoke tactician which unless you get a lucky attack ground shot though means you need to move behind that smoke closer to the enemy lines. Then there's blitzkrieg, so if your Sherman's are all rushing a heavy tank trying to get behind it just blitzkrieg in reverse and laugh as they can't penetrate your frontal armour and can't get behind you.

Point being heavy tanks should have blitzkrieg removed and perhaps something similar given to allied medium tanks to allow them to reach that rear armour. Maybe simply removing it and giving Panthers a small speed reduction would be enough.