Profile of ZombiFrancis

Most vehicles already provide green cover for troops. The main reason you don't see people use this is due to the nature of vehicles needing to move to survive against ATGs/ranged AT.

Well, ATGs being fielded before any vehicles can feasibly built does have a lot to do with it, but that was sort of my point: a hulldown ability could give halftracks a bit of durability. Enough at least so that one could absorb an extra blow or two could make that cover viable could make all the difference.

But furthermore, the fact that infantry scatter at the slightest twitch of movement has another thing to do with it. Having units stay in cover is a rather important aspect of utilizing its benefits. It'd be hard to use the cover even if you tried.

I think panthers function quite well until they're set against British tanks.

They function very well until things like Churchills and Comets come lurking around. Interestingly enough, (although still limited in my experiences) Cromwells and Fireflies don't make Panthers seem nearly as useless as Churchills and Comets do. (And I haven't played the patch preview or seen it in action yet.)

Slated against every other force, Panthers are just fine. That, I think, doesn't really show that the problem is inherent with Panthers.

You know, the conscript v gren balance is only an early game thing. Late game conscripts and grens do not match up in any real sense. (I don't think people play full games using only conscripts v grens either.)

A T4/BP3, 5th gren model upgrade that simultaneously increases the cost of gren squads to 280 (from 240) would not wreck that apparent perfect balance. It would give the Wehrmacht an infantry squad that's less prone to wipage. (Hell, the 5th man could just have a pistol. The point, for all senses and purposes, is that he's just an extra body to bring the vet back to base.)

Not to mention if the upgrade cost fuel it would be a choice that would delay/hinder further teching or vehicles.

However, the real consideration is to determine if this is reactionary to allied infantry, or if the Wehrmacht faction needs a mainline infantry that is less prone to full squad wipes. Buffing grens because of rifles is a poor lens to balance from, but I do think that grens needs something for survivability. I just find that 4 man infantry squads love to wipe themselves. (Of all varieties, really, from Jaegers and Fallschirms to REs and Combat Engis.)

Pioneers should be able to just lay signs without S-Mines as well, for the psychological aspects of the game.

It's a great idea, but since it came from outside of Relic, it will, as a rule, be ignored. Relic must come up with their own solutions, and they must reinvent the wheel in the process, like they're protecting a patent or IP.

I mean, IIRC, the reason the CoH1 M10 misfire bug was never fixed was because they didn't/couldn't change the animation on it because the person that made the M10 animation no longer worked at Relic and they apparently would have had to create an entirely new model of M10 because apparently they couldn't modify the existing one for some inexplicable reason.