Profile of Pip

Give more credit to Hector. And no, he wont ever be back here after he knew legal actions were considered.

Legal actions? Now, that sounds pretty interesting...

or one could simply break the vehicle in 3 part, instead of 50/50.

I'm not sure if this would actually improve the game meaningfully. Unless other changes are made, you'll still have cases where shots taken from the "front" of the vehicle could strike the side armour, even at absolutely extreme angles that simply don't make sense (I.e; A shell striking the side armour at 179 degrees), and having a third zone type would arguably make the whole "armour" system more inconsistent, as you're even more likely to strike an "unintended" armour zone.



If the engine makes it possible; A rather crude "solution" would be to compare the position of the attacking unit to that of the vehicle being struck. If, for example, the AT unit were in a 90 degree cone in front of the tank, any hit (regardless of where on the model it actually strikes) would be a "Front armour" strike. So forth and so on for "Side" or "Rear" armour.

I've made a crude mockup to try and help visualising what I mean. Units located in the light green section would always strike "Front" armour, purple section units would always strike "Side" armour, and orange section units would always strike "rear" armour. (The grey box obviously representing a vehicle, and the dark green, yellow, and red lines representing the various armour zones)

I don't think that's why it's part of the ability. It has more to do with what shadow mentioned:

It's the same reason that Incendiary Rounds require a reload to function, surely? It's 99% intended as a balancing measure; to delay the ability's activation. The fact it makes it less likely for you to reload during the ability was just a small side-effect.

The military use of mines isn't to kill as much units with it as possible, but to deny a certain area for movement. You want to protect a flank or canalize enemy troop movement in a certain direction where your defences are very strong.
Mines often get planted in a way that you can see them from your side so that you can quickly clear them in case you need to move through the area by yourself. The sod gets raised a bit and the mine gets pushed under the sod in such a way, that a part of it can be still seen from your side.

The biggest problem with mines at our days is that millions of mines got planted randomly, hidden and without records in many situations where you had civil wars, guerilla wars with irregular troops/militias or bad trained miltary troops/officers.

I'm aware, but in the context of CoH2: Mines exist to kill (Or at least facilitate killing a vehicle). I'm just jokingly suggesting S-mine fields not have their signs (Which would make them obscenely broken)

The biggest problem with S-mines is really just the ease and expedience at which you can place them on retreat paths. With the recent suppression changes, their other most effective scenario (Squads blundering into a field when the player isnt watching) has been somewhat neutered.

I assume the ease at which mainlines can cause wipes with retreat-mines was the reason for the change?