Profile of CobaltX105

Having used the commander now, I can say with the utmost certainty that this commander is, in fact, incredibly useful and yet utterly boring.

Most of it's abilities are great.

'Rifle Grenades' are useful as hell. They let a normally mid-short range engineer unit punch way above it's class and significantly help out it's fellow Rifle squads in the early game, and it's effect on buildings is not one you can ignore. That said, it doesn't really have much to do with 'Urban Assault' as much as say, a flamethrower would. I think this would be better fit as being swapped with the Flamethrower in Rifle Company.

'Dozer Blades' are also useful. They let you take another hit that would otherwise kill you. If you feel like it, they can crush heavy things for you, or make barriers. Perfectly fine. But at the same time, they don't really have much to do with 'Urban Assault' as a concept, and they don't seem to measure up or sync with the other abilities (and that's not getting into the fact that it's only half an ability from another commander...)

'Off-Smoke Map Artillery' is the exact same, but cheaper now. Perfect for saving your ass from anything that might've caught your units with their pants down.

'Rangers' are probably the strongest proponent of 'Urban Assault' in this commander. They're a badass short-range squad that can pack Thompson SMGs and kill anything nearby in short order. And now they're even cheaper. Woo!

The 'Calliope' is better now, but still not amazing, though with a whopping 30 fuel reduction that's perfectly okay with me. I thought this one would be a stretch with the 'Urban Assault' concept, but seeing as it raised images of smashing buildings and Grenadiers with Katyusha rockets for me, I now wholeheartedly approve~

Overall, a mostly good choice of abilities that could give you the edge you need in the right situation. It's just so boring though. There's no theme to it, compared to Airborne with Paratroopers and air dropped weapons, or to Heavy Cavalry and it's Rangers and Pershing tank.

No way... no one wants to see a return of call-in abuse. E8 has to be locked behind Major.

E8 isn´t a bad tank anyways and it would be used a lot if it wasnt stuck in this doctrine.

Weren't the old December nerfs that to it's moving accuracy though? It was already behind tech before that I think.

Sherman Easy-8

To make the Easy-8 less effective at wiping squads on the move, we have made the following change:

Moving scatter increased from 1 to 1.35

USF

Ranger Company



-M5 Half-track

-Rangers

-Time On Target Artillery

-Man the Defenses

-M4A3E8

Man, I did not mean to post this after all, but hit that button so oh well. USF needs a commander more offense oriented than Heavy Cav, and I thought this would do.

The M5 would better support an advance than the Ambulance, and can double as AA/suppression if one goes down the CPT tech.

Rangers are really good assault troops, and ToT arty is reliable but not OP.

Man the Defenses wouldn't work exactly as in the AA campaign, more like a cover and reinforcement bonus while in territory. Useful for a sector that's being contested, assuming you keep it blue while the ability is active.

Easy Eights would help in the late game, and unlike a Pershing you can get more of them.

Combat ability aside, it'd be a big improvement if they could infiltrate via buildings in order to plant beacons behind enemy lines, and actually help set up Paratrooper landings the way they're supposed to. And it's not like they have shock value either, so that wouldn't be an issue.

The idea of lightly nerfing them with Garands rather than the Carbine just so they can support Riflemen at 0CP also sounds like a good idea.

Paratroopers would benefit greatly if they could actually be deployed behind the lines, but accomplishing this is difficult when you're intended manner of dropping them (Pathfinder Beacons) can't actually be put there because the Pathfinders themselves can't get there.

If Pathfinders could infiltrate via buildings and set up beacons where they could cause trouble, Paratroopers could peform their disruption role a lot better.