Profile of GI John 412

To answer your question, using BARs on Support Paras, I don't think it adds up to enough of an improvement to justify the cost in munitions or opportunity. The BAR is only a 50% increase in DPS (very similar curve too) for a paratrooper, but it's a 100% increase for a rifleman. Also, while paratroopers have the highest health of any USF squad, it's actually only 8% better than riflemen at vet 3.

BARs on Pathfinders are also bad, because the DPS increase is small, the weapon is likely to drop or be put out of service, and the best range of the weapon and squad are opposite (short vs. long).

However, BARs lack focus fire, so they tend to spread damage to multiple squad members. This makes them work well with a squad of Pathfinders getting critical hits on the wounded enemy soldiers.
It would be really nice if Thompsons and M1919A6s were focus fire false as well for this reason. The game lacks consistency with this setting.

That is a very good answer. Thank you.

Are Paratrooper M1 carbines really twice as good as Riflemen M1 Garands? As an owner of both I can attest that I would much rather be shot by an M1 Carbine than an M1 Garand! Lol

Gameplay > Realism I suppose.

So, I had a thought: Why doesn't anyone ever put BARs on Paratroopers?

The obvious answer is that Paratrooper M1919A6s are better at long range and Thompsons are better at short range so if I want better long/short range firepower I should get M1919A6s/Thompsons.

I also know that if I am fielding both Riflemen and Paratroopers and I only have enough munitions to upgrade one of them with BARs, then I should put it on the Riflemen under most circumstances because trading one M1 Garand for a BAR is better than trading one Paratrooper M1 Carbine for a BAR because Paratrooper Carbines are better at all ranges than Riflemen M1 Garands.
So if I am looking to add firepower in general at average ranges, it makes more sense to put a BAR on Riflemen.

However, I've seen a lot of games where players put BARs on Pathfinders instead of Riflemen, when Pathfinder M1 Carbines are identical to Paratrooper M1 Carbines. This is the same trade as described above, so why is it unheard of on Paratroopers?

If someone is playing as Recon Support Company and has Paratrooper support squads that they want to use as assault troops, wouldn't it make a lot of sense to put a pair of BARs on them since they cannot get Thompsons? They'd be more durable than Riflemen and Pathfinders, being a six man squad, and be less prone to weapon drops than Pathfinders for the same reason plus not having the M1C sniper rifles.

Feedback would be nice. I'm gonna start trying them unless someone can tell me what key piece I'm missing.

Children, please play nice.

Anyways, regardless of where you found it, I think the model would work for Streky and you did a good job finding it even if you didn’t create it yourself.

I would be tempted to replace it with a Medic 251 or truck or unit.

A unit that heals but does not reinforce.

While neat, that would overlap a lot with the medic upgrade already on the same building.

But a medic halftrack upgrade for the 250/1 that removes the MG and transportation capability would be interesting.

Actually, just add an upgrade able 250 halftrack that can get one of three upgrades:

An MG that makes it the WH 250/1 halftrack.

A mortar that makes it the WH mortar halftrack.

And a medic upgrade that allows it reinforce and deploys two medics that heals individuals. This would make it not quite as good as the USF ambulance at healing, but more durable encouraging its use farther up the field.

A large portion of the CoH community, however less vocal, plays primarily against the computer in either the story modes, skirmish modes or other campaigns like Ardennes assault. The skill cap of RTS games is so high that you alienate a huge portion of players by not including a fleshed our solo experience. Not to mention those of us with slow internet connections that preclude actually playing online.

A customizable skirmish vs AI would be a big selling point to these players. Wouldn’t it be cool to have a better AI that you can tune the playstyle of and load out of? “Hrrrmmm, I want to practice against a Tiger strategy so I’ll set the AI to pick lightning war doctrine and it’s playstyle to be to stall for call ins.”

CoH 3 has to have a story mode. And I would love to see more control and better AI for skirmish mode.