Profile of rumartinez89

This is why they should be remade or improved. Literally every other infantry call in ability within the game you wouldn't mind having an extra one or two, wether its Shock Troops, Commandos, Paratroopers, JLI, Fallshirmjagers, every faction can benefit from having extra call in units.

Stormtroopers are not better than the stock option which is the problem. Grenadiers are just too good that you don't need anything else except more grenadiers which is why 4 Grenadiers and Spotting Scopes is basically the current meta for Whermacht. Since Grenadiers are better at anti-infantry and Panzer Grenadiers are better at anti-tank than StormTroopers there is literally no point to Storm Troopers other than a quick 1 time call-in or if you are trying to troll with Close the Pocket.

Not sure about the first part, Shocks and all other Soviet Elites are heavily outshined by reg Guards. Hell with SVT drops elites aren’t even needed. So Soviets don’t really need them unless you are playing Penals. Paratroopers are fairly rare now unless you suffered wipes because they don’t fit in the build and come rather late with horrible target size and Rangers are even rarer due to lack of abilities. I agree with the other faction especially OKW which is mostly due to VG scaling.

With regards to Stormtroopers, I agree Grens are too good for anyone to use anything else. PG are the fastest available Elite unit yet no one uses them unless their build is specifically focused around them. The other issue is a commander with ambush camo gives your mainline a close enough version of what you get with Storms especially if you put it on PG.

What do you think about giving them PG STG, it would make them feel more like an elite unit but maintaining their assaulting style. 4 STG might be to strong on spawn so maybe 2stg come equipped while the other 2 are a free upgrade but take some time to tech.

I disagree with the notion of Penals not being "honorable", from what I have gathered there were two types of "Penal" units; well-armed and professional NCOs that are given a second chance to serve and earn their freedom through blood, and "tramplers"-poorly armed and trained infantry meant to clear minefields and other suicidal duties.

Penals in COH2 seem to be the former since they are better armed and professional soldiers, willing to lay down their lives so that their debts to the USSR are paid back in blood.That seems honorable to me.

Regarding veterancy, the most important veterancy bonuses for Grens/Obers arrive at Vet2 instead of them being spread out you get a flat 40% accuracy bonus that completely turn most engagements on their head.This is partially why SOV struggles midgame due to no weapon upgrades available at that time (except DP28 for guards).

Either the effect of To The Last Man should be strengthened by 2% for each bonus, or Penals should receive better moving accuracy with vet, seeing as how they aren't winning long range vs axis inf

I feel most issues with LMG squads for all factions is caused by focus fire. On paper at max range, Penals should do fairly well against LMG Grens. But the LMG focus fire will cause models to drop faster than they should creating a larger disparity in performance than one would think from looking at the data. Truthfully I feel Penals perform fine offensively, it is their inability to create cover to help mitigate model drop speed which causes their poor performance. Since most don't want more units to lay sand bags the easiest fix would be to remove focus fire and work from there.

That is true. But I am not sure this would keep Relic really afloat. PR wise also suicide unless this signifies a long term commitment to the game, especially if many fans are already pissed off after the fail of CoH3 in this scenario. As a last ditch effort to avoid bancrupcy sure, otherwise probably no.
I still don't think they will come back to a game that will be 10+ years old by then.

You are right, I meant to say as more immediate income until COH3 releases. It would also help drum up interest in COH3. Some people say it’s a bit rough for a game releasing right around the corner

I'd highly doubt it.
Relic will decide if they support further updates or not. But since AoE4's success was more "so-so", a complete fail of CoH3 will probably cause serious issues for Relic financially. I don't think they would support CoH2 with updates in these circumstances.
With all the giveaways CoH2 has gotten, there is also no huge financial potential in this game anymore. They have supported it for the community and to keep brand interest high while they were developing CoH3, not because they'd make a ton of money off of CoH2 anymore.

It really doesn't take much for them to get some more money out of this game. They could literally come out with another 3 commanders for each faction. At 5 bucks per faction and reusing abilities they could make a decent return with virtually no work on their part. Most would complain but buy it anyway just to try something new and balance wouldn't even be that important since Overwatch and other commanders haven't been toned down.

I know I would throw down for:
Soviets - Assguard commander with KV2/Mother Russia, Airborne/IS2, maybe another commissar commander
Ost - VSL, AssG with Ele, another P4J commander
OKW - Falls/WStuka barrage so it is more anti emplacement, VG SMG with Command Panther for sight and buffs, Ostwind/tank commander or heat shells
USF - Pershing/AssE, Rangers/EZ8 maybe with WC51, 105 Sherman/Rocket Strafe with Rifle mines

I think by end of game I lost 4 AssGuards.

Had a meh start, lost engi early but got kubel. Lost car in attempt to even up fight for gas.
Eventually ally came helped me push back and kind of dominated my side from there. However multiple times I used AssGuards as if they were shocks, would retreat to late and lose them. Fairly even fight through out game with axis teaming up to push USF, we spammed arty to deal with blobs and slowly pushed them back. One by one we targeted tech trucks and got a few wipes. Eventually caught Tiger 1 out of position with ram killed it off with SU85 dive, bottom OKW player was relegated to more of a support role so we were able to bully the other 2 and eventually allies dived them and forced them to quit.