Profile of Lago

Can't we also make mortars a little better than they currently are? IMO they all underperform massively.

At least make the smoke barrage more responsive so it doesn't take ages for them to fire a stupid smoke shell in front of an MG.

Also maybe reduce scatter on the barrage? It seems very unreliable to try and counter MGs with it and that's the main purpose of a mortar after all. Not sure if it's good design that you try to barrage an MG and after a full barrage you still haven't done any significant damage.

I actually had an idea for a neat way to buff mortars.

The mortar smoke barrage's cooldown syncs up almost perfectly with when the smoke clears. If you babysit a mortar, you can keep an area smoked forever.

So why not make it a sustained ability like Attack Ground? Order a mortar to lay down smoke, and it'll keep doing that until you tell it to do something else.

Yes, game experience is not a thing at all. How could I have forgotten about the fact people don't learn anything from playing. That mechanics and matchups don't become second nature at what point at all.

No, they don't. All stats are hidden from the player ingame, leaving them reliant on visual language, vague tooltips and experience to assess the capabilities of units.

And humans are terrible at assessing probability that way. It's why you get so many players ardently convinced the faction they play most is underpowered.

No you can't. If i'm wrong please enlighten my ignorant self. I beg of you please provide example cus i'm slow.

The easiest way? Halve the fire rate of all tank destroyers and quadruple their penetration. Quadruple the frontal armour on all heavy tanks and halve their health.

Tank destroyers remain equally effective against heavies, but are vastly less effective against mediums because of their halved DPS. Mediums can't penetrate heavies from the front, but are twice as effective attacking from the rear.

Congratulations, you just turned tank destroyers into a silver bullet for doctrinal units.


There's also Vipper's method, where you whack the target size on heavies up really high so anything can hit them. You then give Tank Destroyers switchable rounds: high penetration, low accuracy rounds for heavies, and mid-penetration, high accuracy rounds for mediums. Performance against the two classes of vehicle are now separated.

In fairness it's historically accurate for it to have so much armour.

Now if only it got immobilized after running for 5 seconds...

It is, but that just leads to Tank Destroyer penetration getting buffed to deal with it, making their penetration too high against nondoctrinal targets. That leads to situations like heavies being moved to CP9 so they don't get vapourized the moment they hit the field.

It'd be way better IMO to balance doctrinal units around the nondoctrinal roster rather than having doctrinal heavy armour warp the balance even in its absence.

The problem with putting heavies at CP13 is the disparity between CP gain across gamemodes. CP13 works great for 1v1, but in larger modes it comes so late that there are multiple veteran tank destroyers on the field.

Said veteran TDs melt vet 0 heavies with their penetration buffs, which is why heavies got bumped down to CP9 in the first place.

What heavies really need is timing control independent of CPs: an AEC-style sidetech or something.

That, or slap that cost directly on the heavy itself like Stormjager said.

Both ost and sov dont get extras with tech. No free units, forward retreat points, non doc superheavy or base arty pieces.

So i personaly dont see why they should pay the same to be able to go get a heavy.

It's because the current heavies behave like they're a tier up from light vehicles. Without a tech barrier, they kill off the mediums they're sharing a tier with.

It's like sticking the Panzer IV in OKW Mechanized. It'd kill the Luchs stone dead.