Profile of Cyra

You mean if placed behind a shotblocker, something which is not always available. That's why I suggested that the 17 pounder emplacement become an upgrade for it, effectively transforming it into a German 17 pounder but losing it's shooting through objects ability for added survivability. It's giving the player a choice on how to use the unit, especially in an Urban environment, but on non city maps going for the emplacement upgrade would be a no-brainer I think.

To be honest, I love the idea of giving it the upgrade to make it more like the 17 pounder, its own little emplacement structure and all that.

And yes, a simple delete/self-destruct would suffice, I think decrew has been discussed before and it ended up as something that could and probably will be quite abused, similar to how people are abusing USF's pop cap with their vehicle crews dismounting.

Yeah, I had a feeling it would be abused by people, it was just the idea though. -shrug-

The Pak 43's survivability should be somehow improved in my opinion not just for this commander but for all others as well because right now it's just wasting a commander slot while only being effective only around 20-30% of the time if not less.

I mean even the AI is not dumb enough to leave it alone, they nuke it with everything they got once they find it.

The PaK 43 is very effective on maps if placed in a good spot and its able to cover the whole point, however the fact it (and any other AT for this matter; except the 17 pounder) doesn't self defend or self turn to face any vehicles that just drive around it and start shooting it from the back is a hassle at times.

The 17 pounder in this case has that self-turning ability which makes less micro management on your overhead when having to go through combat with three different battlezones. What always makes me both laugh and yell is how the T-34 drives around the PaK43 and then just starts shooting it and it sits there. Braindead (except for the two guys with rifles shooting the tank).

I've found a bit more success with the 17 pounder tho, largely thanks to it's emplacement. My only problem is that it's big and it takes up my population cap and is generally just useless once the fighting has moved on and is nowhere near the gun, I have no idea why they removed the simple "Delete" button, at least give it a self-destruct ability like the OKW trucks before.

I love the "All Units Mod" as it has the self-destruct ability on various things and it can help reallocate pop cap if needed. Another big thing I would love to see ALL factions get access to is the "Withdraw from Battle" (basically the Refit ability but effects all forces) Ability, maybe it could be used on redundant emplacements that use up Pop Cap and can help remove them instantly like Self-Destruct OR maybe a new ability could be added to emplacements called, "Deconstruct" which removes the building and forces its units to retreat from the battlefield and off the map?

Another idea that could be easily put in is having emplacements be decrewed like vehicles so you can get back your pop cap OR help an ally if they have the pop cap available and need the Pak 43 (thus opening up more 2v2 or up teamplay).

Sorta sad to see that the Soviet Commissar loses his Forward Retreat point ability; I understand he was pretty broken being able to heal and act as a Forward Retreat point, but couldn't the same be made to the Ostheer's Artillery Field Officer? Both Soviet and Ostheer don't have any type of Forward Retreat point system unlike the USF, UKF and OKW so again, I'm just sad to see it go in this patch update.

Other improvements however are welcome and thank god you fixed the 221/223 recrewing crash, it literally interrupted a full game with some friends when we playtested 1.5.