Profile of Protos Angelus

Can people stop making every faction the same at some point?

OKW having early rocket arty is one of the faction's perks, why remove it?

Stuka isn't even particularly good unless facing team weapon spam. No need to change anything.

Agreed that Stuka is one of the perks of OKW.
Not agreed that's it's not that good. In most 3v3 maps, the lanes are quite narrow (Hamburger port) and there are plenty of targets of interest, making stuka quite strong.
But yeah, leave it as it is.

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I mean, land mattress is only good in 4v4 blobfests. Haven't seen it do anything in 3v3- games. Even a couple of games ago, my mate went land mattress. Both of my paks and his land mattress fired at 3 or 4 fussies, 2 sturmpios, 5 volks and 2 or 3 obers from 2 teams (mid VP Hill 400). The blob didn't really get stopped. We won in the end, but it's amazing how easily you can blob vs pak howis and a land mattress. I mean, 2 paks and a land mattress barraage on top of the mega blob and still only one veterancy up and a couple of kills, some dmg.
Hence, you really only go land mattress vs static mega blobs. Same with pak. Katys are good, katys really punish along with Calliops.
However, I really don't know what the balance team could do with it. What the good midpoint would be. Do you give it dmg and take away saturation? Accuracy? Damage for accuracy? AOE? Could make it or break it.

Continued Wishlist:


Easy 8:
I think we've seen 3 reworks proposed for this unit now, but none have really hit the mark for most people. I've seen at least 2 other people suggest that they emphasize its speed and toughness over the earlier Sherman variants, and I'm inclined to agree thats the direction to go.

Let it continue to bully P4s, but make it fast and tough enough to get out of situations it can't win. Make it a legitimate threat to crush infantry and flank bigger tanks, while being tough enough to make it out alive.

Rangers:
I'd really like to see them get another ability. They are just so bland for an elite unit. Things like Fire Up, Smoke Grenades, or even Camo would help differentiate them more from Paras.

Mortar Halftrack:
Since the buffs to the Mortar, I find it harder and harder to justify getting one of these. The reduced costs to the special munitions are nice, but probably not enough to make me get one just for that. I'd like to see them consider reducing the fuel cost to 20. (This goes for the Ost Mortar HT as well)

Priest:
Calliope: 380/115
Priest: 480/115
Is that not ridiculous price differential to anyone else? They are even the same pop (15)

Greyhound:
I'm told they were considering further changes to this, but its still not a very exciting unit. I personally don't think 50cals should have variable costs, so I'd actually revert that buff in exchange for a better timing. It doesn't need to hit as fast as a Stuart, but it'd be nice to see one before the 10 min marker.

Infantry Company:
Its a pipe dream, but I'd love to see the Halftrack replaced by Rangers here. It would give the new Rangers a doc with the 1919, and give it elite infantry to further differentiate it from Rifle Company.

Heavy Calvary:
Swap Smoke Barrage for the 240mm in Armor Company.
The doc actually isn't the worst thing in the world for 1v1s right now, but since the big complaint about it seems to be its performance in teamgames, I would suggest moving the 240mm Barrage out of Armor and into Heavy Cav. If it keeps the LeFH killing power in some form, it will at least bring something besides the Pershing and Rangers to team games.

Recon Support:
I get the idea behind the Raid Tactics change, but I'm just not sure how useful it would ever really be. The doc is loaded with munitions sinks already, and USF already has the ability to cap with its vehicles. Fast cap or vehicle capping abilities tend to be among the least powerful tools you can put into a doctrinal point, it needs to either provide more combat/utility, be balanced entirely around cooldown, or else dumped to make their Paratroopers to be more affordable.

Armor Company:
So close to being strong. A little sad they are backing off the indirect on the 105 Sherman, the company desperately needs it to have a chance to see play in team games. The doc itself is surprisingly good in 1v1s, but cleaning up the 105 and the calldown give it the possibility to really come into its own.

Mechanized:
76 nerfs came out of nowhere tbh. At this point I would consider a full rework.

Agreed. Big +. I'd also buff Pershing armor to 285 or 290 (and call it a day for the Pershing changes)
I wouldn't swap smoke for 240mm in heavy cav. The company would become OP. Offmap smoke is a great ability that can be utilized to great lenghts. Also it's non destructive. Having an offmap + heavy tank + elite squad (bland, expensive elite, but elite nonetheless) would kinda be too oppressive in 2v2s.

Fine to me, but soon pp will realize that m1919 on the hand of tommy or conscript will be nightmare so it should work like the new British m3 and only give weapon to the player who owned the ht.

Or implement the current Brit version: It does not drop on the ground but directly upgrades the unit with it. (Vickers/Piat + reinforce halftruck the brits have in that commander whose name I cannot recall)

Band-aid update on E8
Pershing still useless. The ability is not per-se useless. Just that the reload and time to aim are really high, won't really hit anything unless the target is stuck somewhere

Considering E8:
Not gonna change much. The "upgraded" penetration will allow it to penetrate Panther on a more regular schedule but with a big downside to the ability. You lose something E8 should have been good at - agility. Focused gunner does nothing except add more micro to a micro intensive faction and really really does nothing. Mediocre armour coupled with one shot more to kill does nothing to heavies.

Focused gunnery: Long range penetration will be 186. Good luck piercing OKW P4 regularly. And in lategame, you can't really dive in with the reduced agility/higher penetration on a damaged Panther or Tiger. With the focused gunner you only overlap the E8 with the Jackson more.

Kudos on a new idea. At least it's not cookie cutting BS the balance team pulls off with every patch.

Why not just increase the survivability of E8. Give it 45 range and increase MG performance on it, along with the agility buff and price nerf ofc.

Rest of the changes are fine. The M3 halftrack is a good one I guess.

I'd buff Pershing's armour to 285 and call it a day. The 4% increase would do him well.
The combined arms nerf/buff is fine as well

EDIT: In my opinion. The E8 does not need to engage heavy tanks and Panthers frontally. It should have the agility and sturdiness to flank Panthers (Currently in Live, the Panther is more agile than the E8, fixed by the first iteration of the update). It should not have a cannon that can wipe infantry, but it should have MGs that can steadily deal damage. The penetration is fine as it is.
Instead of the current iteration E8 change I'd only buff armour to 230 and buff MG and further increase the price a bit. If that is not enough, HP to 800 could also be done with another price increase (420 MP and 150 fuel or 380/165).
So it would have the agility buff, range buff, slight armour and hp buff (HP buff would only really affect <160 dmg sources while the armour buff would add another 4% to bounce chance). Commander/MG upgrade path.
Would put it in a good lineup.
By the time enemy has Panthers, you have one E8 most definitely. It will lose to it directly, but with the superior agility and lower target size, the Panther will not usually win the chase
By the time Heavies roll out, you'll have a couple of E8s, which in tandem can easily flank and bring down a heavy (something I do now when I play rifle company on open maps -> a roaming tank squad).

You could maybe introduce some sort of low muni cost that increases penetration BUT reduces [insert good balance option here]. Wouldn't be expensive, but you'd have to pop it if you really want to engage heavies frontally.