Profile of distrofio

Voted Yes almost blindly. The game desperately need a sandbag overhaul.

Sandbags are for defensive strategies, i agree with elchino7 about the time required to build sandbags is too low and IMO promotes push/stall tactics.

IMO engineer units shouldnt have to build sbags, OST can be an exception that enforces the pio supportive roll for TW. But for the rest of the mainlines i would say that conscripts are fine with it, volks are something in the middle and tommies are simply abusing the ability beyond a reasonable logic. To remove the ability is cool for volks and tommies. Tommies can still build trenches and volks should be focused more on mobility. In my personal opinion.

Thanks a lot everyone. Ill take your advice into my upcoming matches.

So if i understand what sander93 says right, the crit is added on top of the damage. The tank surviving is not due the critical but because it had just barely enough HP to survive?

While i agree with thedarkarmadillo, i would really like to bring up the "counter" feature of AI only squads. While we all agree on some unwritten laws like -Elite infantry are infantry counters- when it comes to costs many equations blurr in very confusing ways. At least from the player perspective.

I know its too technical to add a "AI coefficient" to specifically show how effective a squad should be against another squads, because it is embedded in the weapon profiles+Acc and the squads RA+Models. But seriously it would benefit the sake of all posterior arguments to define some constants.

Imagine something like: Penals have 1.5 AI coefficient, meaning that to the penal squad cost, you can expect it to beat another infantry squad costing as much as 1.5 times the penals costs. After removing RNG variations that would benefit/detriment the penal performance

And then, undoubtely a squad will end up having something like a "Anti AI coefficient", because you want to mitigate the offensive aspect of a very specialized AI squad. To name one, obersoldaten vs shocks. You need shock troops to have an opportunity window to close the game and win even against costs ratios. Only because weapon profiles exists.

Being said that, some weapon upgrades like volks stgs could change the AI coeficient due its muni costs, like Riflemen BARS or IS brens or gren LMG. But on some cases the only thing changing is the specific range interaction, meanwhile other weapon upgrades change the generalist units into a specialized AI squad, with snares (not the case of IS though)

These controversial mechanics are currently implemented, no one really knows the coefficients i just made up but they have a real impact on the game and i didnt want to add veterancies yet.

To keep the thread topic, HMGs have a natural AI coefficient but also have the suppressive aspect that makes them an excellent crowd control unit or at least a control unit, given the fact that the in game units can be asked to do unnatural combat maneuvers like charging frontally an HMG. Its a game, therefore like every single game you need to limit the users inputs and give it reasonable and balanced boundaries.

Should maxim have better crowd control? IMO yes, but sadly i cant come up with a creative yet constructive enough idea to make it happen. I though the last vet1 change was good, but its true that maxims vet0 are still that trashy HMGs we all know.

Skirts on tanks upon building T4 soundsinteresting...

Could it be implemented?