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That should be better with the improved Squad AI anyway, but as 12ocky mentioned as long as they have wind-up there's going to be a small delay. We can't do anything about that because of the animation fx.

Lowering the scatter is a good idea imo, but we keep buffing the #1 US doctrine.

It is tricky since Rangers already got a couple buffs, as did OMCG. Maybe a slight Off-Map Artillery nerf? *Not very serious*

It's called "assault", not "throw supression grenade"... Making it just another grenade sort of destroys the purpose of the "assault" factor in it. So, option 2 is better by default. Because version 1 misses the entire point of this ability.

Imo you should focus on making Assault equally effective on all axis infantry units. Smaller squads should use their grenades in faster succession, i.e. more squad members throw it at the same time or the overall amount of grenades thrown is increased or something similar.

The problem is the "assault" factor is more or less worthless. The extra grenades are superfluous and units with rifles don't want to get close, while units with Mp44s don't want to stop to throw extra grenades.

The "point" of the ability. Hmm. I think the point is a grenade that allows you to close with the target. Throwing a stun grenade into a building and then storming it, that sort of thing.

Suppression clearly works better than the dubious "stun" mechanic, so that change is obvious.

Losing control of your squad is never a good thing in the competitive environment, so the "forced move" portion of the ability is really unnecessary. I suppose what we could do is keep the suppression immunity for the "assaulting" squad, but that would probably mean keeping the obvious flashing ability marker.

So the last part of it is the # of grenades. I tend to agree with Tommy that if we want something useful for the high-level player, a precision grenade makes the most sense. The problem with multiple grenades is they need to be imprecise (to scatter) which may add some unnecessary random element to the ability.

Basically I don't think renaming them to "Assault Grenade" really loses the core idea of the ability, especially if it becomes something you'd actually use.

Tommy brings up a good point about buildings though, I have no idea how they'd interact with them.

Maybe my 550 Ti can go from low to...low.

Well good news all the same.

I think suppression fits the idea of "Assault Nades" really well actually, although Bundled Nades would probably be more useful.

I was referring to taking Assault Nades early on, if you take them in the early game it would be for defense rather than offense. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing.

The question is when would a suppressing (pinning?) grenade be useful. If the AoE was large enough and your aim was good enough you could stop flanks with it. If it pinned you could stop territory captures.