Profile of distrofio

IMO to make medkits free after teching T2 is just a bad idea, with bad consequences. All factions really suffer to get heals. Med bunker will dissapear. All teamweapons will be stupid hard to kill. Any pio could heal both infantry and tanks and they are not even medics.

Medkit change: nope at all.

Counter barrage is really good too. Many people have already explained why so i wont repeat their words. Even only OST get to have it, and ukf. Thats a big advantage, to toggle mortars "on defensive" status.

Indirect fire is by definition the counter of OST because its both, attrition damage (that ost squad size suffer from) and it punish static gamestyle (ost moving inf is not meant to excel, maybe tanks, but not inf)

Even though some recen balance patches look to bring OST closer to other factions average performance with/against indirect fire benchmarks

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wow, seriously.
I Dont know what gamne have you been playing but since you say that flanking is a "dead mechanic" i think you woulnt worry about:"

-raising all axis tank rear armor to offset their frontal by 10% or less
-Remove moving acc of all the USF tanks
-Remove USF ATG muni feed ability, since you claim "jacksons have to dominate because reasons" then lets give axis the chance to destroy USF opening before the "i win" TD comes out.
-Give stock self spotting TD options for axis to balance, since STUGS and JP4 dont have to flank, but they also suck at frontal combat vs other TD and heavies. Also increase their pen.
-Remove half of the smoke options for USF only. Since they dont need that much support. Maybe add those smoke canister to sherman to please some other fanboy.
-Force all tanks of all factions to have repair crews or faster repair speeds. since USF exploits his natural ability to repair because they should overextend to get some juicy flanks. Or remove USF repair crews is another option
-Give casemates TD more range and more rotations speed. Since its absurd that current ingame those tanks need to perform 30+ degrees of rotation because their max range (hence their firin cone) is just a few meters wide in their most effective range.
-Force snares to completely stop the tank, Its already dead when it got snared in the first place. Some churchills would hate that, but its your claim not mine.
-Lastly remove all sort of LV frontal/rear armor. Since its no longer a mechanic for them to care, they should run back and forth as they will, not even caring if a stuart or a 222 is hitting point plank in their backs

It also made a lot of sense that:
-A side armor flip coin was implemented not because coding side armor would f*ck up any functioning PC 6 years ago and possibly delay the development of the game itself, since side armor is a real thing but ingame is more like a left over of a dead mechanic.
-Axis have to loose snares (the only reliable way to stop higly mobile tanks *cough cough all usf tanks) because some dead mechanic.
-USF units lacks of features in every department that axis is original about. (MGs, tanks, elite soldiers) but its not unfair if USF overperforms at such roles. (Curiously trending discussions, isnt it?) all because a dead mechanic.

Wait theres more:
I still wait the only reason jacksOPns have to have high moving acc if they are not ment to flank, because its a dead mechanic.

Sincerely we could agree to disagree.

Edit/Added:

Modifying target sizes impact all factions, that's not a great option since it can invalidate those tanks vs UKF or Soviet.
Giving Jackson different type of amo neither, it just a tax micro to switch target between a Pz4 and Tiger.

jackson itslef is a braindead tank, giving it micro tax is the least it could hurt. Target size will impact all the tank in all factions, but towards some even balance between all factions, not for the cool dudes in USF only.
If tiger get ammo switch, it would be good. Or will it?
I cant get what you mean by invalidate but ill try to take it as to make imposible to counter. If that were the case, some mayor stats could be tweaked to make it worth the while.

IMO jackson health is the hardest way to balance it. Since it has to fight off panthers (its very intended role) but i could be less effective against all other armor.

As it is now, M36 is a beefier M10, good mobility, good pen. Since one is stock and the other is doctrinal, there is little reason for M10 to be.
To remove mobility from M36 means it becomes a more defensive unit (and less useful for USF, panthers are also defensive design). To remove ROF makes it a firefly clone, to remove its pen makes it less TD.

As jacksons are meant to be tank hunters and since USF already taxes the player with a lot of APM, sounds reasonable to force jacksons to aggressive tactics rather than be a turreted ATG. If the unit cost is decreased paired with a tech cost increase, to decrease a little its HP and addition a unit upgrade or specialization: High pen and low speed or high mobility and harder to hit, this fits the USF theme and adapt to distict axis threats.

Yeah man just have a sherman already bought to provide smoke cover for the seperately purchased TD to be able to flank the axis heavy lol. Why should USF have to jump through so many hurdles just to punish stupid Axis armor dives?

A stupid axis dive is countered by itself, leaving an axpensive tank with no rear armor prone to snares, bad positioning and yes bad moving acc.
Is an excuse to want to win using stupid strategies against higher level players? I find it an amusing one and a bad one too.

If your opponent has spammed M36 for some reason, why not push with infantry? If he has M8s or, God forbid, somehow M4 Shermans spammed as well, how did you let him have access to so much fuel?

Yeah vacuum fights are so easy to descifer, but there is no conclusion on them. M36 are spammed because they are EZ TDs. Wanna waste your prescious fuel on M4s because of memes? I dont think so. Also good luck fighting off a panther with M8s...
(enemy player is not always a retard)

M36s are already not capable of dives because of their weak armor and hp pool. A competent defensive setup of any sort could snare or destroy them unless you have wasted all your MP on bunkers or mp40 stormtroopers or something. M36 are however used to chase down and punish diving Axis tanks, like the Panther, which can otherwise tank, outrun, or deflect Allied AT options.

ahh vacuum fights again. Not even smoke is available from USF, why are we wasting time then?
Side note here, M36 are able for so much more than "hunting down and punish divint tanks". Ill let you figure it out.

If M36 is giving you trouble as an offensive weapon, with its limited sight range and endurance, I must question your strategy.

Ad hominem. cherry on top of dessert. What a finesse.
Yeah lets say that i am stupid enough to actually use real game examples, stats and care for the game as a whole instead of being a biased fanboy.

I think Vipper was suggesting swapping them over, not having two of the same.

Urban Assault gets the Flamethrowers, Rifle Company gets the RE Rifle Grenades.

Yeah i thought that too. Sounds interesting.
I also agree with the too much utility for the sergeant. But maybe because of the fire up ability.
I would like to see this on a live game, riflemen with good upgrades becoming the core opening again.
IMO its ok to have a very demanding muni commander on a already starved muni faction. It kind of balances itself with hard desitions on where to invest.