Profile of Unit G17

Do you mean the Brummbar?
Iirc, Sanders already showed this gap does not exist.

From my experience (I use brumms a lot lately in team games) there is still a major gap. Brummy would just auto target single models that stand out from the group. Also, when they start retreating, brummy is terrible at leading shots on auto.

Quoting myself from the upcoming commander update - wishes thread:

Could ostheer get at least one doctrinal forward retreat point? I was thinking of putting it in Festung Armor for example in place of smoke or the pak43, I rarely see that commander being used.

Actually now you mention it I had a similar idea before, giving the FRP ability to an Sd. Kfz. 260/261. This is basicly a turretless 223 (perhaps replace pintle mg with panzer commander), so it would be possible to make with the modding tools. My idea was that this vehicle would have dual purpose: it would have a very long sight range (70~80), so, if it is indeed put into Festung Armor doctrine, then you can either use it to spot for hulled down panthers (they have longer range than elephant actually) or deploy somewhere safer for FRP.

edit: hulled down panthers actually don't have longer range than elephant, but slightly longer than 60, allied TD range.

Yes but if I didn't want them to have the MP 40 I wouldn't have given it to them. The Stormtrooper MP 40 does insane damage matched only by the Paratrooper Thompson, but their Kar's are only Grenadier versions. If they had Ober Kar98's then it would be better, but I'll take the super MP 40 that does higher damage than the Kar all the way to mid-range.

I still don't think it's a bug, rather a balance question. Open a separate thread about it if we want to discuss it any further.
Personally I would only put G43s on storms if I wanted a frontline utility unit (smokes nades), othwerise I just keep the MP40s for the high dps on surprise attacks. G43s on panzergrens is generally a better choice imo.

Radio Intercept is a prime example of those abilities where an arranged team with voice chat has a massive advantage over randoms. I mean one could type it in chat, but that quickly becomes a burden after the very early game and would most likely lead to degrading performance, especially in 4v4.

Imo, as a quality of life improvement, if one of the players has this ability unlocked, then it should be applied to all of their teammates as well, ie they can hear/read what units the enemy has built. Radio Intercept is the only 'recon' ability in the game that can't provide information to your teammates as well (without telling them).

As an alternate solution, if the ability is unlocked, then all freshly built units appear on the minimap (or perhaps even through the fog of war) for about 5-10 seconds. This could help when the event feed scrolls too quickly, leaving no time to read what unit the enemy has built (especially when it comes to okw where the radio intercept voice lines are lacking).

I wonder if any of these solutions are possible to do with the modding tools.

Since radio intercept was mentioned, shouldn't it work for all teammates if one of the soviet players has it? I mean this is one of those abilities where arranged team with voice chat has a massive advantage over randoms, like what, you can't expect them to try to type all the units they hear about in chat, especially in 4v4.

I have an alternative solution: if the ability is unlocked, then all freshly built units appear on the minimap (or perhaps even through the fog of war) for about 5-10 seconds. I actually wonder if this is possible to do with the modding tools.