Profile of Unit G17

+1

Bulldozer sherman is better in urban doctrine anyway because of the wp shells.

Well, i just want to to say, that if balance team decide to clean some mess with bulletins, i am ready to spend day or two to fix icons for bulletins. The more issues like mentioned by Selvy289, the more reasons to have a look on the bulletins.

It would be nice if bulletins affecting multiple units, perhaps from multiple armies, would feature all of their icons.
(tho I can see this becoming messy with for example ostheer/soviet infantry bulletins also affecting assault grenadiers and ostruppen... well maybe grenadier + conscript are enough)

I don't want to give medikit drop to the M3A1, cuz it would be a core gameplay change to the soviets. I mean one of the key weaknesses of the faction is that it lacks field healing (apart from that 3 doctrines), but has the largest squad numbers. It's the same as why ostheer is not getting a non-doctrinal forward retreat point (at least one doctrinal would be nice tho...), it would be a core change to them. On the other hand they have a large abundance of field healing and reinforcement posibilites.
Also, I don't want to give map hack to the M3A1 either, cuz like every second soviet vehicle has the tracking ability, it wouldn't be that unique.
Point capturing wouldn't be a big deal either, t70 and t34 can do that too.
Infantry suppression sounds meh too, the quad does that perfectly.

That's why I thought about button vehicle ability for example, a soft snaring ability that unlike ramming doesn't require the vehicle to be (most likely) sacrificed in the process.

Aka the clown car, a great tool (combined with flamer engineers) to get some early game kills, especially on a garrisoned mg squads. But then it pretty much becomes obsolete, I mean one may still attempt to pull off some crazy stunts, like rushing in with at penals to satchel a vehicle, but we don't have many examples of that.

Looking at the other light vehicles all of them have some late game value, like the kübel can map hack, 221 can generate income, 250 ht can reinforce, 222 can AA and map hack, vickers UC can suppress, M20 can lay mines, WC51 can mark target and call in arty, US M3 can reinforce and heal, UK M3 can reinforce and drop guns, etc.

And even if the M3A1 had some good late game ability, possibly locked behind vet, it would be difficult to get there, as it struggles to gain experience by itself. Many of the aforementioned light vehicles would have difficulties too to get veterancy, typically the mg halftracks, but they all get shared vet for their support role. Same should applied to the M3A1 (just as to the EFA engineers; in fact these 3 units are perhaps the only ones in the game that are more about supporting with poor combat abilities, yet don't receive shared vet for it).

So, my proposal: slightly increase vet requirements and add shared veterancy to the M3A1. At vet2 give it an ability, for example button vehicle (same as guards, soft snaring), so that there is a point in keeping it alive for late game.

Then it is a good time to remind everyone that storms were never intended to have G43, they got it exclusively because community REEEEE despite devs trying to explain at the time that there would be no benefit to G43 storms.

I mainly see G43 storms as alternative panzergrens with smoke and flame instead of nuke nade.
At least old G43 storms could also upgrade with panzerschreck, albeit at a massive total muni price.