How is vickers and maxim failing to do the only goddamn thing you build them for is L2p issue? Are wehraboos are completely delusional?
And dont bring up MG34, that thing is last minute decision from lelic that made OKW into a faction with no weakness or drawbacks at all
Relic stopped creating new content for CoH2 years ago.
All this "new" stuff like commander reworks done by modders/community, there wont be any new models, at best modders could only reskin some stuff.
i vote for higher more price on comissar squad then let them upgrade AVT-40 which can be use same model with SVT-40 right ? let them use it as brust fire short to medium range weapon
AVT souds more like weapon upgrade for Penals or Conscripts, not for an officer squad.
I think modders need to decide what they even want of Commisar - officer unit or something like Vanguards Airlanding commando. Right now it's stuck in between
Worst MG in game is currently vickers which is basically 4 man maxim squad with wider firing arc. As weak as maxim is, at very least squad itself is durable enough to win engagements with enemy squads
Plus non-doc units wont be touched this patch (outside of brit snares)
You should adress relic that question. Why for example soviets even have howitzers when half of Ostheer commander roster can just auto-delete them at will with recon + bomb combo? It's been like this since day one and nothing changed.
It's not like giving Pak brace will help it against priest or (buffed)sexton for example. It will just make soviets unplayable for team games and thats all it will achieve.
Defensive Doctrine being the rework is actually a good opportunity to whack Brace on the Pak 43. The giant ATGs really benefit from that ability.
That, and/or maybe make it a non-decrewable like the UKF one.
Pak43 with brace will break game. IL-2 Bombing run was meant to counter that thing, if you cant nuke it with planes Sov wont a single way to remove it at all. Sov howitzers arent answer because they get insta-deleted by dive/fragbomb+recon found in half of ostheer commanders.
Grenade for a dirt-cheap defensive squad is not a reasonable idea, especially for a squad that meant to be fighting at distance.
Not even PPSh cons get HE grenade and you want osttrupen to have one when they already have *free* panzerfausts?
That's why they're lacklustre, because they're not "better" conscripts, they don't even match cons, in fact they're inferior. Why go for a doctrine if the doctrinal units don't provide any value? They aren't great early game and Ostruppen are the infantry that scale poorly as they drop like flies late game. Doctrinal units are supposed to be better than non-doc units in some way but when ostruppen have to be at MAX RANGE to win an engagement vs a unit only 40mp more, and the fact that u always need cover, it's not worth picking a doctrine for.
They dont match cons because they are cheaper than cons. Still arent getting it? Cons are worthless in late game and useful only to cap points and stall infantry. Thats exactly role of osttrupen. You use them to build trenches then you put them inside and stall while your support weapons shred enemy. They are not supposed to be "good" they are supposed to be cannon fodder to hold your opponent back away from support weapons.