Profile of T.R. Stormjäger

Being tested.

What’s being tested? Weren’t the final patch notes just that? Final?

How exactly is the frag grenade worse than the flame grenade? Because last time I checked, alpha damage on grenades is much more useful than slow DOT damage that can be avoided within seconds.

It’s a nerf though, since you won’t be able to get enemy units off green cover with ease and bully them in the open.

Garrison clearance would ben a problem though. I’d love to see flame nades replaced with frags and then an actual mortar being placed in T0 to deal with garrisons.

nope heavy TD are still meta and still frustrating for alies espiecially on maps like hill 400

Heavy TDs are the symptom, not the cause. The real illness is that people were bitching for years about open maps because they didn’t fit their “I’ll build a maginot line here and valiantly hold” gameplay delusions that only kinda works on corridor maps. Now team games are left to be played in garbage maps like hill 400, Ettelbruck, Oka River and 4v4 maps like Red Ball and Hamburgh that were designed for 3v3.

Well the thing that drags officers down is the absolute garbage design of the usf which hasn’t been fixed and never will. Tiering up should never give you an elite infantry unit with vet 3 sprint. Now, as for the ideal design.

First thing we need to ask is: Should it be a single unit or a squad? Single unit diminishes combat capabilities, but allows special abilities with quite a bit of counterplay. On the other hand a squad makes the officer much more useful and allows integration into the army by participating in battle. In my opinion the major/okw officer design is the best one. 3man squad that can fight in a pinch and has utility capabilities like a mobile retreat point, mark target and recon. Another concept that could be stolen from steel division 2 is giving veterancy gain boosts to nearby infantry.

Another option is officers as immovable units in your HQ that give you passive or activated bonuses. You could also put officers in light vehicles as sort of a command vehicle, which IMO should work like the ukf command vehicle with slight bonuses and neutered combat capabilities to balance it out,

What of we went for a more Dawn of War approach? What if we could get an officer unit and we could just attach it to a squad to give it bonuses? Obviously it would have to be more oprimized than then beits coh1 version, but it could be viable.

There's 5 in total, standard M4A3 Sherman, M4A3 76(W) Sherman, M4A3 105 Sherman, M4A3E8 Sherman, and the Calliope.

This Jumbo would be a 6th variant with more armor, hp, slower and with the same 75mm gun as the standard Sherman but no shell changing, at least in my mind.

It would be easier to balance right now than the Bulldozer for Urban Assault and would provide a new and unique useful tank for the new commander that many people want, plus it arguably fits the theme better than any other unit. Of course that if you're assaulting a town you'll want to send in your most armored tank to support your infantry, and not one equipped with a bulldozer blade lol.

Also another picture of CoH models of the 76(W) Sherman and Jumbo from a mod:



Barely any difference is noticable besides the gun.

That’s cool and everything, but a Heavy tank does not fit the theme of an urban assault commander. Not only is pathing in the game difficult for heavies in narrow environments, but historically attacking towns with heavy armour was not an option with all the rubble in the streets. I think the jumbo is just a case of people wanting more shiny new stuff.