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Someone mentioned in a stream that it would be great if the recon support paras got the same AT sticky bomb that the Cavalry Riflemen have, as part of their zook upgrade. Which sounds like a really great idea to me, but I asusme that couldn't be added as that's beyond the remit of the patch.

I mean, I’d be content if they just worked as intended with the camo, but that'd be cool too. I feel like it’d be a bit op to be throwing at satchels out of camo though.

UKF as a whole is practically receiving a huge rework by a simple change. If the snare goes live, our general perception of several unit might change.

With that been said, i wouldn't touch any of the mostly early-mid game unit at all. AEC/AT gun for example, will benefit greatly from having a snare.

If any other change is needed for early-mid after that:

IS: only cut down initial mp cost by 10/20mp which would give them a slight better map presence.
Indirect fire: i don't think we will see a mobile mortar, non doctrinaly, so i guess we will have to double down with base howitzers. Snipers could had their flare range extended and/or cost reduced.
Bofor: fix the AA bug
Comet: buff a bit scatter. Call it a day.


I'm eerie to say what thing really needs to be changed in order to make UKF viable again. IF only we had comment from any top 10 for a better insight.

It seems like not a lot of top 10 players play brits very often. We don’t have anyone (to my knowledge) who is known for being great brits like DevM is with usf or whatever. My conclusion is that none of them want to waste their time being pulled down by the faction when better ones exist to be played currently, but that’s up to interpretation. We did see the GCS numbers on their pick rates and win rates though.

Fireflies will see a huge performance increase with snares definitely. But I think this may just serve to make the comet even less relevant. The comet's penetration may turn out to be fine, my issue right now is, like I said, if it doesn't miss, it bounces, if it could hit it's shots, it's penetration might bug me less. Multiple times have I tried to surprise flank a panther only to watch it wiff it's first shot into outer space and then bounce with it's second off it's side just for the panther to turn its turret and hit first shot whilst retreating.

Sherman 76s and easy eights have similar pen but fire twice as fast, cost significantly less, can repair themselves and are better against infantry. Only comet advantage right now seems to be it's trolly rocket proof armour.

Yeah I know what you’re saying about the comet for sure. I always have a serious lack of faith in all my tanks when I play brits as well. I think the moving accuracy debuffs were a bit much (or maybe its base accuracy is too low) as it still is suppose to be a cruiser and the panther has more range, penetration, and armor and a pintle 42 that can kill infantry fairly well. I remember people used to say the exact same things about the ostheer panther’s accuracy and it eventually got changed, so maybe something will happen. The only reason I build comets is because they’re tougher and faster than fireflies and can shoot smoke and WP rounds.

So yeah I do think it’s penetration is fine but its accuracy could stand to go up. Doesn’t really make sense that it misses as many shots as it does. Its scatter could also use a buff too, it seems odd that the p4 basically outperforms it 1 for 1 in terms of anti infantry.

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Is there any reason why stormtroopers don’t get the commando/sniper camo? It seems to me like they should be fairly equal in terms of performance and role but commandos are clearly much better, due to the superior camo they get.

If only someone made a mod for that

Lol. I still to this day wish that was a part of the live game. It’d fix so many problems pertaining to indirect fire and countering it as brits.

As for OP, I think a lot of points you make are pretty good, as for a lot of the other suggestions of users in this thread.

My 2 cents:

IMO infantry sections should be tweaked and the cover changes rolled back so that they’re good in cover but fairly bad out of it (much like ostruppen). I think their veterancy bonuses are kind of shitty too but I don’t remember for sure. Could somebody who knows their way around the game files post those? Also, I think brens should receive some sort of cover based bonus on sections too.

I think the comet definitely needs it’s main gun bugged against infantry but I think it’s penetration is fine as is and it already has so many abilities that giving it HVAP or DS rounds might be a bit much.

Churchill smoke is a bit silly and should be removed (and replaced with smoke shells like you said) IMO, but other than that it’s more or less fine. JP IVs counter it pretty well IIRC, and stugs and panthers do okay against it too.

I like ShadowLink’s proposal for the Cromwell as well.

I think snares will help the firefly perform a lot better and cover for its general sluggishness so IMO it’s fine as is.

The AEC is a little slow in general especially compared to the puma, and the treadshot could use a bit more responsiveness on the first shot and should be viewable on the move IMO like it was before, but other than that I think it’s more or less fine. The smoke seems a bit finicky at times too (much more so than any other analogues).

The base howitzer mechanics could use some love too. Even just a free smoke barrage callable by the sniper and pyrotechnics sections would go a long way, but I think a slight throw range increase (especially on the sniper) would help too.