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Kubel in terms of what it can and can not do, what I know it does properly mostly is capping mainly.

In terms of supporting and firepower, it is somewhat lacking for its price.



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It is definitely a good harassing unit, capping and decapping but other than that, there is not much else you can really say it is good at. Maybe recon but it only limits to infantry movement only which is good but has to fulfill some roles somewhat better.

When I say firepower, it is not that it has to be, wow great or strong.

No, it has to be more consistent, reliable and an independent unit in some ways.


Currently, it is not consistent, reliable or nor even an independent unit, not enough though.

It heavily relies on being supported meaning, It being supported more than it can support itself.

Its current accuracy is rather poor for both being stationary and while on the move. It is pretty terrible actually, really in a poor state.

Thus, I would say it deserves a buff in "accuracy" just ONLY while being stationary. It needs to also play properly a role of AI support.

It needs play more in the combat department more and less in "hide and seek" kind of gameplay as it does now.




It is currently a scout and cap guy only (a harasser which is viable mostly in 1v1 and 2v2 only, team games not so much).

Sucks at being supportive, it is unreliable in combat and overall not so viable. In terms of scaling, well it is not so great either overall.

Sure improved more than before, but not so much.



It needs to be more like, less a harasser and more of a supporter (provide infantry support at range).

Like being supportive enough, reliable in combat and somewhat more viable. So, that it can scale better also.

Buff price in the process like make it 230 manpower. Effects also early gameplay too, am I not right?


I say buff accuracy more to having it better off than Universal Carriers standard accuracy (without upgrade), only while stationary.

Universal Carrier has already way better by standard/default accuracy BOTH while stationary and on the move.

Plus it has better DPS. Not to mention also, it has an upgrade which not only boosts its accuracy more but damage also.



On the move the Kubel should be like crap but while stationary, it has to feel great (enough).

Just so it becomes more consistent, viable, somewhat independent yet relies on support but can also in the process provide some more better in the return.

All in all, the Kubel deserves a buff in accuracy, just to play more a supportive role than it currently does.

That is it, that is all it deserves. An accuracy buff only while being stationary. Make it its strength.

The Universal Carrier can not capture territory. Therefor people will never build more than one and that is why it can have better combat characteristics. If you make the Kubelwagen any better however, you risk that people will spam them instead of infantry.

The improved Kubelwagen is already nice in the current live version, and the only thing I found holding me back from using them every game that I generally need to sacrifice too much vital early game Sturmpioneer time repairing them. The manpower bleed inflicted by Kubels does not outweigh the down time on Sturmpioneers imo. That should be solved in the upcoming patch however.

Very true indeed.

The manpower bleed inflicted by Kubels does not outweigh the down time on Sturmpioneers imo. That should be solved in the upcoming patch however.

That is also why it needs furthermore, improvements on its accuracy.

Only stationary accuracy improvements.


Kubel currently has accuracy: 0.7 (near) , 0.55 (mid) , 0.35 (far)
Universal Carrier has by default: 0.8 (near) , 0.7 (mid) , 0.6 (far)

upgrades with Universal Carrier not only improves further their accuracy but damage also.


So, the idea for Kubels new accuracy, roughly I believe should be like. Something like this.

Kubel new version suggestion acc: 0.7 (near) , 0.7 (mid) , 0.7 (far)


To make it more consistent, supportive and more helpful.

Increase cost of Kubel to 220 or 230 instead. Affects early game in the proccess a little more but also to make it better too.

i still find it funny that the UC deal more damage at max range then kubel at 0 range

Yeah, that is really uncool for a Kubel to do that bad. Just a big lol really of a car for that kind of output.

I hope so too

I just think base on September patch mod,they “rework” Raketenwerfer，without camo and retreat make Raketenwerfer hard to against Allies light armor and reduce they survivability
I think move Luchs to T2 maybe will be good against light armor but doesn't like Puma can crash all Light armor,and doesn't like 251AA only can defence

I still think the Devs need to make the Raketenwerfer a better AT support unit.


What it needs is a decrease in "Delay" (since its nearly 3 times longer than others)
and
decrease its time to "Reload" from 4 seconds to somewhere like 3 seconds and anything less.

Increase price of Rak to 300 manpower. To make it a viable AT support weapon.


Then it will do a good enough job than now in supporting, regardless, either FlakHalftrack or Luchs.

Which would be a huge fix to their 2 current problems

- AT issues, since Rak which is currently a terrible support AT unit, cant support anything properly, terrible at supporting lights. Fixing it would remove the problems.

- Lights not being entirely vulnerable. If Rak is not terrible anymore


Mostly, we have to depend on the changes their making on Raketenwerfer mostly because it is the only key for OKW to use the Lights efficiently. Without Rak, there is simply no lights.

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Luchs is as well all know is a good light vehicle that can change the tide of early gameplay.

It plays a strong role of aggression, which is kind of the problem.

Luchs was ideally, an infantry support vehicle, meaning stayed behind infantry lines as a means of support. Never was it in the front as aggression.

It never took on the role as being pushy or aggressive. It was considered a recon/supportive unit but in the game it plays more an aggressive role.

Currently, it does not so much play a supportive/reconissance type of unit.


So, I was thinking, in order to counter the early Luchs effectivness (which forces Allies to effectively get AT gun, my idea is to in some way counter this), but also for the purpose of making it improved and more to how it actually was, here are the changes I believe would make it better but not overwhelming.

To make it scale well, also for later games.


The changes, Luchs as a more supportive unit, (removes most of its aggressive features for more a defensive and supportive means instead), my ideas:

Nerf its moving accuracy, make it really poor

The aim of this is to make it bad/terrible, in this way, it has to depend heavily on being stationary (buff stationary accuracy even more, make it its strength).

Similar to how Tommies rely on cover but Luchs heavily relies instead on being stationary), as it to how it actually was in reality. Just to make it realistic, balanced and interesting.


So, it plays more of a supportive role rather than aggressive.


I figure, it is also time to remove that cheesy Camo. It is an another annoying feature, hardly used, ineffective, serves no real purpose. Just a frustrating feature that also needs to be removed.


The 2 boosters applied when/while being stationary:

Trade the camo ability for passive stationary accuracy booster, which is applied after being stationary 2-3 seconds (booster applies, accuracy significantly increased, applied to main gun only).

Sight should be slightly increased, only if it is stationary, a boost in sight, just slightly, to fill in a bit as a recon unit/role at the same time.


I was thinking the surpression should come earlier as it is never used. For starters, I was thinking it should come either at vet 2 or 3. So it fills the role as support more uniquely.

Also, decrease the vet requirements a little, to make it scale also better.

The idea, is to trade early gameplay for later gameplay. So, it becomes viable late game which would make this unit uniquely interesting.



I wonder what you guys think about this?