Profile of Firesparks

This ability has been bugged for a long time. Dunno why relic always ignores this issue. I have given up to use it.

it's not really a bug. the bundle grenade on the panzergrenadier and the guard nades have both been 45 munition ever since released of the original two armies. They are a bit "outdated" but I don't think the grenade is weak, just over priced.

the light gammon bomb on commandos is too powerful, really. given their access to cloak they could have just gotten the standard mills bomb.

From my experience playing I can say that the usf grenade is a lot more powerfull than the panzer grenadiers bundled grenade. The usf one does good damage and can sometimes one-shot Östheer 4-man squads. The panzergrenadier's bundled 45 munition grenade rarely kills more than 2 men in a enemy squad. Anyone feel the same?

Tl;dr bundled nades weak as turds

bundled nade and the pineapple have identical AOE. just lower the price of the bundled nade to 35 munition.

coh2 only started using decimal until WFA I believe.

before that the game has a "squad pop" upkeep, that is population attached to the squad itself.

for example, each conscript and each grenadier both cost 1 pop for each man, but the grenadier have a extra 2 pop upkeep attached to the squad itself for an total of 6.

this mean that a grenadier at 3 men would take up 5 pop, at 2 men would take up 4 pop, etc.

I am not sure why the game switched to decimal, but I think the decimal or squad pop setup are better than the new value we have currently.

I'm not dragging anything down. For the 1000th time, the aec does its job. I mentioned the brummbär as a unit that DOESN'T do its job. Or has no clear identity or whatever. UKF has all the tools to deal with light vehicles or medium tanks, the aec does not need a buff of any sort. It has a role which it is good at. It has other uses, at which it doesnt excel (AND IT SHOULDN'T). Just because the puma exists doesn't mean the aec needs to be anywhere close to it in performance.

the job of "dealing with light vehicle" is a very small niche. saying that a vehicle is useful just against it can fight just light vehicles is ridiculous. In fact the AEC is bad precisely because it's only good for fighting light vehicle.

and the british does not have everything it need to fight vehicles or medium tank. The british infantry have no snare and their PIAT have trouble hitting any moving vehicle. The british are quite frank screwed if they can't get the cromwell out fast enough.

Mine is useful but by itself is not enough. The AEC is a poor investment that goes bad as soon as any medium tank hit the field.

the biggest issue for me is actually the lack of shock or guards.

trying to make due with penal is ... not fun.

Being cheaper isn't going to make the AEC more useful. The british have the weakest anti-tank capabiliy in the early-mid game with their lack of easily accessed tank snare and the lack of tracking projectile inf ATW. Any axis player should know how easily an atg get flanked even with faust.

furthermore, being useful only against light vehicle is a very niche and limited role. The AEC needs to make puma level decent against tank to be worth the purchase. Raise the price if need be, but the AEC needs to have 50 range at the least. It is the same exact problem the PTRS have. Light vehicle is a very small subset of unit. A unit that's only decent against light vehicle is just not worth using.

Schrecks are an easily kited hard counter, schrecks do not immediately invalidate all vehicles on the field. This is what micro is for.

schreck can be kited if the vehicle in question is decent against infantry (sherman), or if the main gun have good range(jackson, puma). The AEC have neither the range or AOE. The AEC can technically kill infantry but it's far below the capability of the t70 or even the stuart.

The remote chance of sniping an infantry model is not worth the risk of using AEC against schreck.

222 can kill nothing but UCs or halftracks vehicle wise, and is pretty bad vs. infantry as well (especially because everything more than a single squad will straight up kill it if you dont pull back. the only upside the 222 has over getting another gren/pgren is that it's not bleeding you MP as long as its alive (and it won't be for long, because it has no "window" unlike the AEC). 251 is bad because its a mobile reinforcement bunker without the flame upgrade, and a 120 muni sink with it, as it will go down to small arms as well (also no window). the russian clown cars are better because you don't have to upgrade the halftrack, but just put a flamer inside that you can save even if the vehicle dies. also quad.

I will agree that the 222 is a bit crappy beside hunting m20, and the flamethrower upgrade on the 251 is severely overpriced. the 222 could use a small armor buff and an acceleration buff.

the flamethrower upgrade on the 251 should be 90 munition