Profile of Lago

The exact fuel costs to rush a heavy are much less relevant with the raised CP requirements as the CPs are now the limiting factor.

I disagree, even if I agreed the upgrade was OP I don't think stripping units and abilities people paid for out of the game is beneficial at all. For instance as much as I dislike emplacements I don't want them deleted, just reworked.

Do you think CoH 2 should be replaced by All Units Mod?

Because that's where 'remove nothing' leads.

Some abilities are bad designs, some patching decisions are mistakes.

Making a better game requires being prepared to recognise those mistakes.

And now its a buff after buff with pop adjustments, because balance went polar opposite to that release op with them...

I know.

They were game-breakingly overpowered at release, got hit with the nerf hammer until they weren't, and what was left wasn't a well-designed functioning faction.

The rest of their history has been the balance team wrangling with Relic to have basic features like snares added.

I mean unlike the ost p4 j the doctrine doesn't have a heavy tank sitting at the end.

I mean you could list the ost P4j advantages too over the dozer but that just wouldn't be an authentic vipper post would it.

The OST P4J is just a clone of the OKW P4. You delay your P4 a bit and get better armour and scatter at Vet 0. The OKW P4 still beats the same units the OST one does, it just beats them a bit harder.

The 75mm Sherman is the best medium tank in the game, and that's because of its HE shells. It can freely toggle between being a generalist medium and an anti-infantry specialist.

There's a good reason the Easy Eight and 76mm don't get these, and it's the same reason the Panzer IV has better anti-infantry performance than the Panther: it gives you a reason to build both.

So it baffles me why they added an upgrade package that gives the 75mm Sherman the armour and health of a premium medium. The Sherman 75 Bulldozer beats and loses to the same units as the 76mm and Easy Eight, but it does so without giving up its anti-infantry firepower or the basic Sherman's shock timing.

Why did they look at all the Sherman variants and figure "hey, look at all these tanks with their own advantages and disadvantages, let's make one with all the advantages!" This thing only exists because they realised they could stick a dozer on a 75 with an upgrade and wanted to do it.

Strip this ill-convinced upgrade back out of the game. Put the E8 or 105 in its place in Urban Assault. Mechanized is fine with the 76mm.

Why stop there? I believe this should also entail a reduction to 185 fuel, 18 population and further nerfs to reload speed.

Hmmmmm this sounds familiar...

185's probably too far. A six hit, high armour premium med is about the point I'd aim for.