Profile of Jae For Jett

Try putting in osther panzer tactician smoke instead of flare

That's just exchanging one anti-fun ability that never should have been in the game with another.

They also specifically said that one squad in game exclusively having reduced damage modifier instead of more received accuracy is inconsistent and confusing so that unit had it removed last patch, but here we are with grens.

Not being necessary for the unit to function and having no justification while also not being communicated to the player in any way whatsoever. Uniformity was a small part of that, but shocks show that we're fine with a unit being inconsistent with others as long as this inconsistency is important to the unit's theme, is communicated or even just hinted to the player in at least some way, and actually has a reason to be a part of the unit (this last point being the most important). Shocks' armor fit his all of these things. Ranger damage reduction fit none of them. As someone else pointed out, Ranger tooltips/descriptions could have been changed to communicate the DR, but it still wouldn't have hit the other two points.

Gren damage reduction will be communicated/hinted at to the player, and it does serve a purpose considering how relatively easily they are wiped by explosives. Grens are somewhat thematically weak as units, so I wouldn't say DR adds to their identity, but honestly, the balance implication was the biggest reason here.

Quite some nerfs to important late game units.

I don't really understand the +5 fuel for the Jackson, looks like more a political nerf to please some players than anything constructive. If the team has a constructive feedback about it.

M8 Scott barrage is bad, not sure if 20 second barrage cooldown reduction is interesting.

Pak Howi nerf is big, since the unit almost only depend on AA to vet, at least reduce the vet1 requirement. Adding a 4th shell to the initial barrage would help to understand better the AA nerf.

Pershing change is ok, a bit more consistency but still a nerf at the end.

Time on Target, better consistency is always welcome.

Rifle Company changes seems a joke to me at first view, I fail to see how adding riflemen field defense to the doctrine is going to make it more popular. But you can tell me.

Paratroopers is probably the best change here, and probably going to be nerfed before hitting final stage or the bulletin give -%3 receive accuracy is going to be nerf in return.

We were also considering 150 fuel for the jackson nerf, but wanted to be conservative give the other changes to usf's late game and just how essential the jackson is to any usf composition.

Adding riflemen field defenses AND making fireup useable will absolutely make it more popular. I don't expect it to make rifle company viable (honestly, I myself was hoping to get in some more drastic changes to the doctrine), but it'll make it more cohesive as a doctrine and less of a pain to use for those players that simply want to use it. It would take a lot to make it competitive against heavy cavalry, armor, mechanized, airborne, recon, or infantry (perhaps even urban assault).

Sturmpioneers- If your going to adjust them, Take a look at The shrek and Minesweeper both being available? Much like RE's and Royal engineers can get both. Linked discussion: https://www.coh2.org/topic/95256/70-ammo-for-just-1-panzerschreck-still-why

It was discussed and decided against for the time being.

So a few notes:

OKW early manpower/economy changes were relatively conservative since early strength is one of OKW's critical strong points. We are very much looking to tune these numbers if needed.

The raketen got a fair amount of discussion. Some members went either way on retreat vs no retreat. We ended up deciding on no retreat so that we can see how it pans out. Another thing, I recall Mirage was looking into seeing if the spacing on the raketen could be improved any, but I don't recall what came of that.

I feel like the falls changes could use a little more explanation. Currently, falls are an expensive elite unit that come at a time where you really just want AT to deal with allied light vehicles. They're often simply not what you need (they're more anti infantry) and too expensive to splash into your build. They're fairly strong even for this timing, but they almost feel obsolete when obers hit the field. We by all means could have pushed them into the full on infiltration squad role (see commandos and stormtroopers), but I like how unique the glassiness and damage profile was. And as I said, I do personally like their glassy nature (a low model count is natural as theyre in the role of an elite squad, but even against small arms they also just have a relatively low durability), but the lack of DPS concentration meant that they ended up losing DPS too quickly to even feel like a real damage dealer - they felt like a "glass cannon"...except without the cannon part. The changes aim to bring them to a timing and cost where they fit more comfortably. The 2:2 (kar:fg42) armament is meant to retrofit them to their earlier timing and lower cost, while also providing some DPS concentration so that they can still be glassy but not suffer majorly in DPS becuase of it. The fg42 buffs prevent the 2:2 from hitting their performance too much, feeds into the DPS concentration, and also means that when they get the full fg42s they can feel competitive with obers. The main things here are DPS concentration, timing/ease of use, and adjusting their power curve.

I'm personally a little iffy on the panzergrenadier g43 buffs and on the paratrooper RA buff. I like paras' identity as a glassy (per model) damage dealing squad and feel like the trade off is more or less balanced. Still, some users seemed to favor the idea, as did members of the team.