Profile of Guderian

Lol wtf Luft is the strongest PE doc.

Whats wrong with that dynamic, make moar friends like that!

On a more serious note though, just play auto, it works just fine.

Still not convinced which way the mod should go, but I'll try to restart discussion with a potential changelog for a new version.

Bug fixes for 2.3:
- Snipers no longer fire twice rapidly when reloading their weapon
- Casualties no longer detect camouflaged units
- Inspired Assault now works properly on MG42s and Mortars, and does not apply penalties to Paks or Nebels

Possible changes to add in 2.3:
- Reduced the supression of the mg42_vehicle weapon (Halftrack, Stug) by 50% (it still does double the supression and 20% more damage than the PIV mg42. Not nerfed enough?)
- Reduced Nebelwerfer movement speed from 2.75 to 2
- Removed the Puma's 5% chance to kill infantry targets at high health

Possible changes to remove in 2.3:
- Return WM T4 costs to vanilla
- Return FtFL to vanilla
- Return Inspired Assault to vanilla (outside above bugfix)

The reason the Puma is so inconsistent is because of its accuracy. 50%. You can run up a lot of hits in a row, or a lot of misses. If we really wanted to address it, we should consider increasing its accuracy but lowering its damage.

I'm trying to cut out some of the filler, changes that sound good but have very little impact. The Nebel change above might fall under that category, but it sounds really good on paper so it's worth a try.

I think the vehicle mg should be nerfed even more. E.g. same as the P4 one you mentioned. Other then that all changes seem right to the point.

Kolaris I understand your point and agree about those changes, but I think we have more important balance issues to work on. Namely - wm t3, wm ht and tonns of OF stuff (if we get into that). KCH are supposed to give away lots of vet - just as its hard to kill them. Someone who goes for unvetted kch and complains about rifle vet - deserves it.

I'd like to focus more on t3 units, since I think each and every one needs small changes. Puma is a bit tricky since from what I've seen it can be a bit random with its damage. Sometimes one burst can headshot multiple rifles on by one, sometimes it does just a little health damage. Is there some crit modifyers for it? The nebel needs a movement speed nerf in my opinion, the damage and vet bonuses are all fine, but should be slower, for now with 2 vet3 nebels you can pretty much fire non stop and never get hit by arty by shift moving after fire. And the Stug... well there goes my personal least favorite unit in the whole damn game. The "go for stugs in any unclear situation" playstyle shouldn't work in my opinion. The way to fix it could be removing supression from tank gunners, or introducing some kind of "antispam" (if its possible for inf units maybe for tanks as well?), but either way something should be done coz its a very cheap, very spammable unit, and shouldn't be a solution against nearly every kind of play US can go. And before you talk about better m10s taking care of it - you introduce one schreck or even better a t2 backtech and no m10 train will accomplish anything. Look at the recent tourney final game 4.

Ht suppression is actually on my list since very long time xp
You don't think tier 1 is even now? I think the jeep buff and the riflemen reinforce costs balanced it out. But that's just my opinion ...

Future changes are actually easy to be made. The main question is if there is still enough interest in such mod.

About defensive lategame: I disagree, Flak 88 provides great cover for mechanized lategame play. + 2 types of Arty ...

I still consider heavy t1 to be much too effective personally, the rifle vet changes were a good idea but combined with the wm buff it was too much. Look at aljaz wm playstyle which is sitting in t1 for like half an hour straight to t4, it shouldn't even be possible in games against players of equal skill (not to take anything from aljaz who is a brilliant player).

I think there will be interest, it is just proportionate to the small community we have left... All I personlly can contribute is ideas for changes and games to test them.