Profile of Pip

It seems if you get a main gun crit that none of the other weapons work on the Churchill... Not sure whether this has been introduced with the pintle or was a problem previously.

Damn, sounds like we'll just have to go ahead and remove MGC then.

All decrewed weapons should be equally easily destroyed no matter how it scales.

Yeah, how easily it can be destroyed after decrewing isnt a "Combat stat", there's little reason for its combat performance to dictate how easily it may be destroyed if the crew is killed.

i think weve already had a chat on this topic- im not a fan of it for the reasons you listed. there are 2 commanders with the is-2 and if i pick one to use the is-2 and miss out because my team mate didnt build a single tank to squirt his out first.... it would lead to a lot of drops, grieving and generally shitty team mates. it would ruin the game i think.
imagine your buddy purposely NOT helping save your heavy because they want to build their own....

I know, that's the main concern, really. It would work fine in arranged teams, but it would catalyse even stupider decisions being made by random players.

Despite arguments that it would "Reduce build diversity", I'd like to see caps of some sort trialled. Generally people don't "Specialise" as has been suggested, what happens is that one side builds ten T-34/85s, and the other builds 10 PVs.

The thing with 3-4v4 is that concentration of force can too easily win you the game. Had a 3v3 yesterday, where despite bleeding my opposite counterpart hard, my teammates were having such an horrendous time that they allowed their counterparts to build up a KV1 and, like, four T-34/85s and suddenly barrel down the centre of the map and roll us into our base. In a 2v2 you might be able to deal with concentration of force like this, but one guy (And his two raketen) against all that? Not really happening. I probably should have had more mines around, but I was strapped for Munitions (and Sturm man-hours) due to hard fighting down the centre of Across the Rhein.

Even if factions have the tools to deal with these sorts of things (Which I'm not certain they do, not without heavy fuel investment, at least), a single person can't do much against such a large wave. Perhaps expecting a single person to be able to deal with two/three at once is a little silly, but you can't always rely on your teammates.

(I'd have peeled off to help my teammates, but the opposing flank players kept trying to flank and crush me. I did make a mistake in building an LEFH a bit too early, but I think the singular Jagdpanzer I'd have been able to get out wouldn't have been enough to help. Man i wish OKW had handheld AT. Sturms don't count, especially not before the Balans patch.)

Penals don't need any combat buffs or nerfs. Give them the ability to carry 3 PTSR so that double PTSR penals can synergize well with conscripts (especially with merge to reward good micro merges in base) and they can choose to be either AT defensively proficient or offensive. AT upgrades give them the snare + satchel, but would remove maybe one ability that is more AI oriented (say they start or unlock with vet some ability that gets locked once double AT options are taken (2x 1st, 3rd PTSR 2nd))

Triple PTRS is already on penals in the balance mod.

How is that different from building from HQ? Since both of these buildings are up by BP1 and T1 building is free to build anything by that time? Am I missing something? T1 skips with dead osttruppen will be almost non existant now.

Requiring T2 building to be up actually delays a little (they can be left in HQ)

I agree that it wouldnt be a terribly meaningful change... but there are still niche strategies that lean on Pioneers and MG42s that don't require tier one.