Profile of distrofio

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Is volk vet a no brainer ability? Surely it's more problematic as it's free and requires no micro

Volks getting vets without micro.
And the internet awards of the day goes to...

Getting something without paying just by using the squad in its intended role (fighting) is quite literally the definition of free.

Lets see how much vet your volks get napping inside the base...
Of course, now 'free' is a multiprupose word to call BS, how dumb have i been.

Why dont you tell everyone how does OKM get their healing? Maybe the answer for the volks self healing is there.

Edit: Each time you pay for a volks squad and they get wiped, is that loosing a free heal? I mean, you payed for those volks and never could get healed before achieven vet

Nah, other factions have very powerful, free healing as well, like the ambulance and all the self heal on vetted OKW squads.

On Wehr it costs 15 mun, yes, but there you have it available on every single unit and the heal rate is much faster too.

Why people keep using the word 'free' withouth understanding its meaning.
'Free' ambulance costs FU and Manpower. (Both delay USF openings)
'Free' OKW squads heal comes after getting vet (risking and winning combats and surely spent muni of STGs)

At least i dont have to explain 'free' heal from SU or OST...

Better, cheaper heal is for factions heavily reliant on infantry or the opposite (I.e OKM) to balance the power of their infantry

Edit: Since OST is mainly a elite inf defensive faction (it was meant that way at least) heals are expensive, 60 muni bunker or 15 each time per squad. Compared to the single time T0 SU has its clear the intent of each faction. With regards UKF The idea involved is a cheaper heal to strong inf that had no snare, hence they need to endure LVs assaults and provide a frontline for the rest of the troops. Now UKF has snares, tommies are bullying axis inf out of cover even when they have the worst moving acc. The original healing prupose is completely lost. I couldnt agree anymore with OP about changing somehow the UKF healing.

+1 on the vet requeriments dont help at all to the current state of the maxim.
I would say that maxims dont have to overperform in any way, but to be inline with other mgs at least for suppression pruposes.
The undeniable paradox for maxims is their durability. They are a 6 man squad on a team weapon that can be reinforced via conscripts (even though not many people use that ability at all) and at the same time the deathloop makes it very unreliable, or at least the easiest to flank of all HMGs.

The active ability suppression buff seems a interesting concept, but i would take it a step further, like other SU team weapons, paying a muni quota makes them unique. So for maxims i could suggest some of theese ideas, all of them on vet0

-Grazing fire. Maxims fire at will among the entire firing cone at the same time for a fixed duration, with extra suppression bonus. Suppressing all squads present but is not useful against vehicles. This ability could be primed and incoming troops will be shot even before seeing them.
-Make maxim able to sprint for free. Sinergises with ohhrah (that could alse be free)
-Rear echelon suppression like ability, targets a single squad but massively increases suppression.
-Scuttle. The maxim team is able to abandon the weapon (no one wants to steal it anyway) and return alive to base as conscripts with the same vet as the maxim was.
Coupled with this a lategame conscript buff could be added too, for an upgrade cost a conscript squad can get a maxim and become an HMG squad without loosing its vets. Mutually exclusive with the current mod 7th man buff.
-Give the to the last man passive ability from penals to maxims (somehow it could stop the deathloop?)
-Buff dmg/suppression to middlegrownd between high ROF HMG42 and high dmg Vickers.

Static gameplay almost always beat mobile gameplay. A weaker comet would end up being ignored. Maybe the only ¨good¨ solution is to make comet a panther clone. They were comparable in performance at least.