Profile of Enkidu

Changing a new Company of Heroes game from a WW2 setting to anything else would be an unrecoverable mistake.

I love the coh series and the ww2 setting, but I would still play the crap out of a new coh with a more modern setting

Hey guys, haven’t posted here in awhile, but I’ve been following this thread with great interest. Thematically, I really like the addition of another man to conscript squads but I have a couple of suggestions. First of all, adding another Mosin toting conscript to con squads as a late game, muni based upgrade, is aesthetically a bit boring. Usually hitting that muni upgrade button results in a shiny new weapon for your squad and so to spice it up a bit, I would suggest making the 7th model an officer (NCO or commissar) carrying either a ppsh or possibly an svt. You could look to the American LT for inspiration as that unit provides flare vs yet another rifle squad, but also doesn’t provide anything too drastically different damage profile wise without the zook upgrade.

Second of all, I see that you’re contemplating adding a cover bonus if the extra man isn’t enough, and might I instead suggest that the upgrade provides cons with a variation of the penal battalion’s To The Last Man ability which buffs the squad as they take losses. This would allow cons to maintain their mobility and not be tied to cover. It would also allow cons to maintain more of their dps in late game as the damage on the whole starts to ramp up. In my opinion, part of why cons feel so bad in the late game, is that with no weapon upgrades, each model lost impacts their dps output more drastically. A variation of To The Last Man would help mitigate that without having to worry about drastically changing their alpha strike or blobbing potential if given true weapon upgrades.

Anyway, good luck! This balancing process is fun to watch.

Thank you for this story

Reminds me a little of the old Dune rts

No offense to those that play and enjoy the mode but I can't stand watching 4v4 games. Way too spammy for my tastes. So, no. I should add though, good luck in making this happen. Anything that promotes the game is good imo.