Profile of Pip

Alright, I doubt that driving your tank back to base every 5 min to refuel would benefit the gameflow in any way. So no, I would not like that. However, I do like basic macro management in RTS games. That includes reeinforcement management and base buildings. Simplifying that already basic process hurts the game in my eyes. Let me ask you this: why not take this further and move units to a way point after being fully reeinforced? Or automatically search cover?
Btw, I was against adding the "manual reload" button in Coh2. I would have been fine to reset magazines after a short time when out of combat. That is tedious.

There's a downside to autoreinforcing, in that you don't have fine control over the process (which can cost you manpower). The way to alleviate that issue is to disable autoreinforce... Which is still an aspect of macro management. I get where people are coming from regarding this mechanic, but I do think it's a good change. High level players are already adept at reinforcing units, and the addition of autoreinforce isnt going to do anything but allow both players to focus more heavily on engagements.

Moving units to a waypoint after replenishment is honestly not that much different to waypointing a unit you're building, to move to a location as soon as it is built. Is the latter something that should be removed? I might even be more pedantic and ask whether you think attack-move is a bad mechanic that simplifies the game (In terms of, for example, attack moving a rifle squad so that they stay at max range rather than walking directly into an SMG squad).

Autosearching cover would be a terrible mechanic, I don't think it's comparable. Positioning and engagement managment is the core gameplay loop, automating that in some way is indeed simplifying the game in a negative fashion.

A manual reload key is far better than units reloading automatically. Unless you mean that units would just instantly replenish their magazines after a delay... In which case that would honestly be a decent idea.

Endless whine for last 5 years about doing something about end game always regressing into heavy tank spam was indirectly asking for faster games as attempts of extending mid game itself by strengthening LVs opened an option to play, not the solution to the problem, faster tick rate fixed that.

I think that making games end faster is kind of a band-aid fix for the complaint that lategame devolves into heavy tank spam. I'd rather have games at the length of CoH2 (or perhaps longer) than be as pressed for time as I am in CoH3.

A better solution would be to rebalance heavy vehicles so that they are a less overpowering unit type. They ought to be a tool in your arsenal rather than something so dominating. Admittedly I don't know what this would translate to, precisely.

tldr wrong

It really isnt the same as the Katy or Werfer (Or Calliope). The stuka is fantastic for displacing/destroying team weapons, and punishing extremely static play, but against blobs it is nowhere near as reliable as the Werfer or Katy.

I believe they were also one of the sole reasons that Brits were designed the way they were in vcoh and coh2, but I could be wrong. I remember a lot of blame going there way though back in the day.

I suppose this is it, really. We don't know /exactly/ what Duffy was responsible for in CoH1 or 2, so it's rather hard to say whether his departure is a positive or a negative. I don't think there's any real reason to get all "doom and gloom" about this announcement; Let's see how CoH3 looks on release first.

Unfortunately, there is no way to make SVTs function as AVTs aesthetically. You can't just simply turn a single-shot weapon into a burst weapon, unfortunately. Even on the lowest possible weapon cooldowns supported by the engine, they don't even appear or sound close to being automatic.

You can go the other way (burst weapons to single shot) by having extremely short bursts though. This can be used for StG, FG42, etc, although making the SFX sound right will require lots of fine tuning.

Also Penals have badass now-unused voicelines for flamethrowers

Is it impossible to override the model that a weapon uses? If so, one could replace penals' STV-40s with STGs (or some other burst/automatic weapon) that have their models replaced with SVTs. This is the method I was expecting would be used, rather than directly modifying the SVT-40 stats.

Though, of course, this would require that animations and sounds are overridden as well... And having not actually had much experience with CoH2's """""modding tools""""" I don't know whether all of that is easily doable. It does feel like a lot of things that really ought to be trivial are practically impossible when modding this game.