Profile of Quercus

Varying bonuses based on hammer / anvil is a neat idea on paper but modifying their hammer/anvil bonuses does not really address Tommie issues. Vet3, 5-man dual-bren Tommies are not solely a late-game issue anyway.

It isn't supposed to fix any other issues (and certainly not the problems this patch is introducing), it was just an idea to tie in the whole cover bonus vs movement penalties to the hammer/anvil choices.

I like the responses here saying that the nerfs to UKF were justified, while ignoring the posts from people who have actually tested the new mod and found that the changes render the IS far too weak now.

It's a shame because overall, I think Relic's heart is in the right place with what they are attempting to with the patch overall and it is clear that they are listening to the community.
Unfortunately their hearing appears to be quite selective.

I would love to see an interview with them where the community put questions regarding balance and design decisions to them (for all factions).
In the case of the UKF (leaving aside this current patch) there are still questions about the viability of the base artillery, emplacements and the Royal Artillery commander for example.

No armor buff, maybe slight HP buff and a speed buff to both movement and turret. The problem is they gave it both a slow turret and slow movement, so anything that doesn't die to its first shot(any allied tank)will be able to flank it to death, yes even the Stuart and T70 (given the time, although given the KT speed it can't really get away) can kite this unit to death. The problem with this being an AI point holder is that then you can't get any other armor for a while, given its unit cost plus the tech cost. Allies can exploit this weakness with a swarm of medium tanks to overwhelm even shrek blobs.

This makes sense. Especially the slight increase in speed and turret rotation.

I pretty much agree with everything CieZ has said and with lots of tweaks suggested by others.

Flame Weapons:
Cover should reduce flame weapon damage greatly (e.g. being behind a wall or behind at AT gun shield) but maybe add a suppression effect to sustained flame attack as well?
However if you are caught in the open (or the flame attack flanks around you so you no longer count as being in cover) then the DOT damage should actually be increased.

Indirect fire:
The suppression should be removed but then the factions needs a direct-fire unit that can suppress to replace them.
I'm happy for mortars not to auto fire but instead their standard attack should be a directed barrage that lasts for at least 30 seconds on the area they are directed to hit.

Weapon Upgrades:
LMGs should either require you to go prone or to be in cover so you can rest them on something (as suggested) in order to avoid a huge accuracy penalty.
Many AT upgrades already have this tactical balance - if you swap out AI weapons for AT weapons you should be less effective against infantry.

Abandons:
Maybe not remove this completely but make it much less frequent - and then (as people have said) the abandoned vehicle also has destroyed main gun and destroyed engine so can't be used again until completely repaired.

The stupid movement penalty for Heavy Engineers should just be removed, their armor down to 1.5 and muni cost to 50.

Or maybe a compromise?
Rather than halving the speed reduce it by 25%, make the armour 1.75 and add a 40 muni cost per unit.