Profile of Pip

Ironically this will create greater balance issues because OKW will have it all. Some of the strongest light vehicles with Mechanized HQ and healing at the base. This is a bad idea.

Edit: I just reread Sander's 4 different versions. The one you're talking about where OKW gets all that stuff for 20 fuel is V4. I am against Sander's V4 changes. I rather prefer his V3 Battlegroup HQ change.

Agreed, that's the major problem with my suggestion. It' just not particularly "fair" if the OKW tech structure remains as it is. I think it would be a good solution, as i said in my previous post, the BG and Mech HQ offerings were shuffled around. I'm suggesting that the initial HQ medic upgrade would only give, say, one-two medics, and the third would be a bonus from the BG existing though.

Having to unit-tech in a certain way just to get healing is unpleasant, especially if you can then lose that healing along with access to units, if your BGHQ is destroyed. Admittedly you perhaps shouldnt have your BGHQ outside of your base sector, but no other faction (Bar Soviets, who have no nondoc out-of-base healing) loses so much from their healing solution being destroyed.

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I don't think giving RET, or any USF squad for that matter, Grenadier's rifle grenade is a good idea. Grenadiers have that instead of a "real" grenade due to their intended role of "long range firepower". USF having both regular grenades and the powerful Rifle Grenade (Especially against OST smaller squad sizes making wipes more likely) might be giving them too much. USF infantry is already very good, other than the vet1 snare issue.

The already suggested change of the current RE rifle grenade (Timed, lower damage) being a cast ability would be better. Not as a standard though, as part of Urban Assault.

Im also not sure I like the idea of a 200mp squad having passive suppression.

EDIT: Also, removing Riflemen's snare entirely and giving it to two not-riflemen, and the squishier RET squad is not really so great either, honestly. Rifles should keep it, it just shouldn't be a Vet ability.

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I believe the Six Pounder used to have specific accuracy bonuses against Lights, back when UKF didnt have a (non sniper) snare. I don't know if the M1 does, but the increased arc and increased firerate indirectly make it better than other ATGs against light vehicles. Perhaps it has a specific bonus as well, but that isn't what i meant.

Also, yeah, I'm not stating that Take Aim is an ability to be used alone, it does generally need to be in concert with APDS. Perhaps making it a free ability that immobilises the ATG instead? A team weapon with a "Dig in" ability would be interesting. Sort of goes against the USF "Mobility" design though.

Bumping up the middle AOE to 80 lets it go back to regularly oneshotting (vet2 and below) grens again though, I'm personally not a fan of that but that's more due to enjoying OST than anything else. Maybe it's the correct move, I don't play USF enough to really know what would be "Best" for the Pershing. All i know is i really don't find it a particularly frightening opponent at the moment.


EDIT: According to Vipper's post the M1 fires approximately 50% faster than other ATGs at vet0, are you sure it's "4.5 seconds / 5 seconds"?

i think its because we cannot import custom models and animations into COH2... unlike COH1 COH2 is alot more restrictive when it comes to modding... this of course bites the game in the butt...

I'm aware of that, though the three solutions I suggest don't need any new animations. I expect there's some other issue that prevents a fix.

yeah... id honestly take a 4 man maxim if it didnt have deathloop and had good stats... the problem is deathloop as far as im aware cannot be solved... thats why i prefer to treat deathlooping HMGs as -1 man to its current squad size and just accept that deathloop cannot be solved... soo in reality the maxim is a 5 man MG more than anything else atm...

I appreciate that you aren't over-emphasising the effect of the deathloop, as many often do. Its a severe issue, but there's a degree of people overstating how much of an effect deathlooping has on every engagement. It's a severe issue, but not every single fight against a maxim/DShK ends with it being endlessly deathlooped... though a lot of them do.

Im surprised it isn't possible to provide a workaround to this. Is it not possible to either: Make the gunner less likely to be targeted than other models, transfer damage from the gunner to other models in the squad instead of himself, or in the worst case, just force models to teleport into the gunner's seat if the gunner is killed? I expect the latter may be against Lelic's "no jank" policy.

I guess i'm not exactly privy to precisely what modders can do, perhaps all these options are simply impossible/unfeasible.