Profile of wongtp

the simplest way is to increase ost sniper's reload to 5secs and add in a 1.25 received accuracy modifier for all small arms for all faction snipers, then standardize all faction's snipers to camo at the same speed.

this way they are highly reliant on positioning, camo and infantry screens to be able to bleed squads. revealing themselves to infantry means a rather quick death or instant retreat as long as they are in firing range.

this will prevent snipers from being used as solo units, fire a shot, kite infinitely and be used without a proper infantry screen.

love the new guards, they are finally doing some work with the ptrs and dp28s. having 30 kills on a squad is pretty common especially against volks spam.

erm, rifle nades still rape guards pretty hard. grens still match guards pretty well when playing defensively and engaging them from cover. rifle nades just tips the fire fight massively in gren's favor if you manage to land a good one.

still though, its quite insane on conscripts, a different weapon profile would fix it. have them at 0.15/0.35/0.45 chance to hit infantry instead.

sounds like precision strike on the 120mm is the biggest problem. its normal barrage is inaccurate as pudding and its rng/cover mechanics thats screwing shit up.

then its simple, nerf damage to 60, keep its accuracy. remove precision strike to a buffed infantry tracking to find new targets of opportunity then increase rate of fire to compensate for the dps loss and reduce its cost to 330mp.

this way, it will never 1 shot a full health squad, kills only damaged models and only potentially able to 1 shot very wounded squads.

this is what all mortars should have been, not lethal on the 1st shot, but a bloody menace to wounded squads, requires multiple hits to kill. if you are taking fire from squads and under mortar fire yet you still stay in the zone, you deserve to lose the squad.

but, other light indirect fire options all have this 1 shot problem, they kill on full hp models on hit. wehr's mortar, both MHT and 81mm does exactly the same, fires faster and rapes squads just as hard. its not just the 120mm.

the only thing i do agree is, precision strike is far too powerful as a counter barrage ability. i love it but i do feel cheap at times for using it.

The point I'm saying is, were Soviets' late-game intended to be built around their call-ins, there would not be commanders for them without late-game call-ins. If it were such a simplistic design rule, the large amount of commanders contrary to that would definitely have not happened.

competitive commanders are actually the one with call ins.

still waiting for a guards is2 commander. oh why not slap in a mark target and conscript repair too.

1) guards infantry are arguably better than shocks at some maps.

2) t34/85 are quite subpar, only thing they are good for is that they have 800hp and do not need t3 tech. still, they come with paper thin armor and an average gun for such an expensive late game tank. not enough dps to scare away tanks, heavily reliant on rear hits and often more trouble to micro than it is worth. i would take a panther over t34/85s anyday.

without mark target they are horrendous. give me mark target that boost penetration rate rather than damage.

3) no comments.

1) horrible idea, soviets are heavily reliant on call in tanks. rather than shifting mark target to them, buff their standard non doctrinal stuff.

2) no comments.

3) make field guns resistant to dive bombs, but decrew them.

4) yes its useless, vet1 smoke to tanks please.

5) niche unit, great to terrorize t1 units without faust or schrecks and most importantly, chase down kubels. avoiding faust and schrecks is key to its survival.