Profile of ZombiFrancis

They cannot reveal if they have read it or not due to NDA. But they are excited about it.

I think the issue is that USF can decrew a vehicle to free up pop cap, not that anyone can recrew a vehicle to go over pop cap.

There are many instances where I would love to reinforce my army fully or free up the 1 or 2 pop cap I need to build or call in a new unit. USF has the ability to swing a vehicle's worth of pop cap at any time with the ability to actively decrew their vehicles.

It's not something that's going to get fixed, or even considered being fixed, as long as USF doesn't have any actual heavy tanks.

I'd just prefer things like mortar shells had a smaller lethal AoE, and a larger damage radius that dealt moderate damage. They really like to miss, or land close to their targets, which makes them completely useless until they score the direct hit in which case it can be irrevocably powerful.

I'd rather the first shell miss, the second shell reduce most squad members to 50%, and the third kill off squads, rather than the first two miss completely, then the third wipe everything. The other mortars tend to work more in that fashion, but the 120mm stands out in the extremities of utility.

I rarely use wire because most factions have a vehicle on the field to instantly crush it by the time I'm finished constructing the wire.

I rarely use tank traps because they're not even an available option unless I'm USF, in which case I'm already sad because my Rear Eschelons can't lay mines, which undermines most of the utility of tank traps. Also, as USF, it's hard to justify blocking off areas of the map to tanks because USF always needs as much maneuverability as possible against Axis armor because of the whole no heavy tanks thing. And if the USF is trying to lay anti-tank mines they're doing it with an M20, (which means the captain is delayed, and by extension, ATGs) which ultimately means that those tank traps aren't redirecting enemy armor anywhere meaningful.

And if they are blocking off traffic towards USF ATGs, mines, and bazookas, it almost by definition has to be the lategame.

Also the Axis heavy tanks I believe just straight up crush tank traps, which further makes them useless. Which makes most of those defenses completely obsolete by the late game.

Yeah the rifle nade has been an interesting ability since CoH2 launched.

It seems to swing from being absolutely useless or incredibly powerful.

The only thing about Rifle nades is that I think they need to have a bit smaller range and instead of exploding seemingly just before impact, should have a 0.5 second timer or something.

It would give a rather negligible chance for crews to move, or at least finish up packing before the explosion hits. Once an mg team is packed up the squad usually breaks humpcover and the rifle nade is much less devastating.

MGs that completely ignore the fact that a riflenade is incoming would still eat it pretty hard.

But more than anything I feel ALL grenade abilities should be disabled or have their ranges throttled when suppressed and/or pinned.

Grenades should make quick work of mg teams when its thrown from a flanking position, not from the front. Or at least not from the front and out of cover.