Profile of Lago

The Tiger has less DPS than the P4. FULL STOP. I can continue point by point and say more about the Tiger but don't need to. Any conversation of the Tiger begins and ends with that statement. The Tiger does less DPS than a P4.

Against what? Infantry?

The T-34/85 does the same anti-infantry damage as the T-34/76. The Comet does the same anti-infantry damage as the Cromwell.

Armour? The Sherman does more DPS than the Jackson.

You can't just ignore armour and penetration. They're core mechanics of the game.

And your way of doing brace makes them so easily counterable its not even funny as you have massive window of opportunity where it just does absolutely nothing.

Its braced?
No problem, just wail at it, opponents army is that much weaker already.
Brace ended? No problem, just wail at it, its free kill now.

If you make a SimCity, sure.

A single Bofors is, what, 280 MP 30 FU?

The idea is if something attacks your emplacement that counters it (like a tank), you slap Brace on to triple the amount of time you have to react and move an AT gun over there.

It serves a similar purpose to retreating.

An idea to change the Brace ability to make it favour scattering emplacements around rather than building a Sim City.

• Brace is a toggle, like Focused Sight, Handbrake or Recon Mode. It has a 45 second cooldown when toggled off.
  
• While Brace is on cooldown, the emplacement cannot fire.

For a lone emplacement, this version of brace is better. If your emplacement gets overrun, you toggle on Brace. Your emplacement no longer does anything, but you have time for your mobile forces to move in to repel the attack. Once you've made the enemy retreat, your emplacement has time to go through its de-bracing cooldown.

If you're playing SimCity, this version of Brace sucks because this version of Brace breaks the Advanced Assembly/Bofors/Brace combo. Stick the Bofors on Brace and it won't do anything until you toggle it off. With so much invested in the SimCity, the enemy mobile forces will overwhelm yours.

If you do toggle it off, the enemy gets 45 seconds warning it's coming back online. That's 45 seconds to kill it with whatever indirect or AT weaponary they brought along.



Summing up, I reckon this could make spread out emplacements something approximating viable while simultaneously giving SimCity another kick in the teeth.

Thoughts?

Incentivising Special Operations to actually tech T3 (starting building is T0) isn't a bad thing.

Might be best to turn the Bofors into a 2cm Flak emplacement, that basically serves as a (360 degrees) bunker for the UKF. Cheap and rather effective but not insta wiping squads and light vehicles. I don't think it will ever be able to compete with the AEC so we might as well turn it into something that isn't as toxic.

I like the sound of that. The emplacements that work best are the cheap ones that aren't much of an investment and which are easy enough for an attack in force to counter. Bunkers are a good example.

You build them in your territory to slow the enemy down, but they're not too frustrating for the opponent to deal with and it's not devastating if you lose them.