Profile of rofltehcat

Snipers had 0.4 accuracy before and now have 0.65 (0.6 for the German sniper, for whatever reason).
I don't think mortars were changed against buildings.

If you're relying purely on small arms, that is true.
Unless I mixed something up, I get the following reductions:
Garrison 57.75%
Garrison old 84%
Heavy 75%
Light 50%
Smoke 75%
Bunker 87.75%
Trench 94% (lolwut?)

Of course this is only against small arms. Other weapons have completely different modifiers. Tanks for example are better vs. Heavy cover (-50%) than against Garrison cover (-75%) although you have to consider the AoE multiplier mentioned in some recent patch notes (larger AoE when attacking houses iirc).

Another thing to consider is unit spread. Inside a house the infantry is normally spread across several windows, whereas they tend to be very closely together when in heavy cover. This of course changes AoE damage potential but also small arms performance:
At least in CoH1 (unless I mix something up) you could only deal damage to the entities in windows facing you. This also means the squad can't retaliate with its full DPS and the small arms fire from the unit outside is focused on fewer targets (e.g. PGrens vs. Conscript squad = ideal example). Outside the house (e.g. in Light or Heavy cover) the damage would normally be spread more evenly between targets. This also explains the mincing of conscripts someone described further up.

Overall, I'm not sure if Garrison cover is now too bad but it definitely needed changes. Green cover also isn't available so readily on most maps and when it is available, it often leads to units clumping up because the area is very small, which ultimatelly makes them very vulnerable to explosions.


Let the construction of sandbags and trenches commence!

Oh wow, this is interesting. So they are probably planning to expand the current linear scaling by one step. For example, SMGs could have a slighter damage drop-off between 10 m and 20 m than from 20 m to 30 m.
Or do I read this wrong?

Also thanks for all the work

I think some of them need some fine tuning. Some were basically moved from old 2 to new 2, when the new 2 is basically an old 1. By their logic, an old 2 should be at 3-5 pts in the new system.

But I think currently it may be a minor thing. However, I hope that they will reevaluate all the CP placements in a future patch. Some of them really don't feel placed very well.

The same commander also has "Hit the Dirt", of course.