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Very good post.

One could have gone into the disparity in necessary micro required to handle one super heavy unit versus the requirement to micro the plethora of units required to successfully counter it (which applies to both sides of course but to different degrees).

They buffed it's squad wipe potential at medium to long range while reducing it's short range squad wipe potential. Why they thought that made sense is really anyone's guess.

This is not actually what the patch change did. Please find the exact patch note extract below:
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This change entails that the damage profile of the mortar projectile is changed. Projectiles have an area of effect. The damage distance determines how fast that damage drops off going outwards from the centre. Ergo decreasing damage distance near means that a unit needs to be closer to the centre of the explosion to suffer the full damage.

So in effect what the change actually did, is decrease the area of effect in which the mortar does maximum damage and buff the radius at which medium damage occurs. The lethality at medium to long range (engagement distance) wasn't increased at all.

Sounds like an overbuff to me IMO. 400 health seems enough to me. Dunno about main gun buff because it can one shot full health models. The 400 health gives it more late game utility because its special abiltiies are already pretty potent. Not sure how costly they are though i can't remember.

Point is I'm deathly afraid of an overbuffed stuart because I don't want half of all gave with usf being over by the 15 minute mark just cuz they can snowball the early game power into a stuart.

The Shell Shock ability is 45 munitions.

Point blank engine shot is 60 munitions.
It's range of 5 is 3 times smaller than an at nade which is more than 2 times less expensive at 25 munitions and doesn't have a high risk of losing the unit associated with it. The 6 seconds long Shell Shock is not nearly long enough to guarantee an escape (even if we ignore that the stuart will target infantry first when Shell Shock is used, which causes a loss of already precious time). In order to try and save the stuart and get an engine shot off one will have to spend 105 munitions or the equivalent of 2 teller mines (or a little less then 2 m20 mines) or 4 at rifle grenades all of which have a higher chance to succeed and cause more damage without taking losses as valuable as a stuart.

From the responses it appears to be only conscripts that provide this ghost recon, has anyone seen this from other units or factions?

So killing the unit removes the sightlines in spite of this?

I had it happen with grens (unkillable and providing los for the rest of the game). Also look at the video link G4bb4_G4nd4lf posted and you'll see that fusiliers can do it as well. Might be that if the model trying to snare (at nade, faust) gets killed at a specific point the bug happens.

As for the normal unit dying and turning into a wounded entity that is a game mechanic that was part of the game since coh1. It's certainly not exclusive to conscripts. Every shot unit has a chance to turn into a wounded entity which will provide los for a certain amount of time. Focussing that unit will stop it.

How so? The only thing here that I can see as possibly disconcerting is the fact that Jackson may now be a tad too strong (should have went down to 160 dmg if gaining 40 instead of 20 extra pen).

Does anyone know what the penetration gain a vet 3 Jackson gets now? In combination with AP rounds I believe it will have close to or 100% penetration against a Tiger at mid range at vet 3.

It will actually kill a p4 or ostwind in 4 shots as an su85 would but it will take 4.5 seconds longer due to the reload time. I don't see a problem with the damage as it takes the same abount of shots to kill a t3 ost tank as a Zis or Su85.

The penetration increase with vet 3 (30%) will result in (close/mid/far) 312/286/260 penetration. which will result in a likelihood of penetrating the tiger of 1/0.95/0.87. The jackson needs to get there first, which with the current call in meta is rather unlikely since the first tank it actually faces is a tiger or panther so not much time to gain vet to hard counter the tiger. But due to the indirect buff to ost t3 this might change.

The increase might have been a tad too high but we'll have to wait and see. Getting a jackson to vet 3 isn't that easy a task.

It still does more damage and is far, far more mobile. While also having more penetration for ~reasons~ now.

For similar reasons it has a 37.5% longer reload than the su85

StuGs are the unlikely winners of this Jackson buff. They will now die in 3 M36 hits instead of 2. So they can handle 2 Jackson reload cycles instead of one.

The sug g has 400 health and will still be killed in 2 shots.

--OST Tiger/Panther speed nerf = more T34 blob swarms becoming a thing, plus loads of other blatant issues.

You might have misinterpreted the patch notes. There was no change to the standard speed. The special ability "blitzkrieg" was changed.

• OST T3 Vehicles are Completely useless against USF now.
  

T3 wasn't touched and the penetration increase of the jackson has 0 influence on t3 vehicles since the jackson penetrated them all the time with the exception of the furthest range where there was the slim chance of deflecting of 11%. Now it will always penetrate. On the impact of the damage reduction read the text at the top of this post. You do now have anything below 16.5 seconds (4 shots, 3 reloads) as opposed below 11 (3 shots, 2 reloads) to react as it used to be.

Please keep in mind that the accuracy didn't change, therefore the chance to miss is the same as before the patch. All statements ignore misses.