Profile of Cruzz

shock mg42s are uh, pretty good.

All recrewed squads are stronger. Except ones recrewed with Ostruppen.

Shocks have 25% less received accuracy this patch
Jaeger/PG MG42s have 45% less received accuracy this patch.

Also;. if you steal a Mg-42 that had camo upgrade, your boyz will keep that upgrade in the future with all of it's bonuses.

Only the gun will keep the camo, the crew doesn't get camo. But true you will still get the 5 sec +50% damage every time it starts a fight by firing first.

Recon Pathfinders have 3 men, cost 210, DON'T have a scoped rifle with crits and are a horrible unit.

They're a pure scouting and artillery delivery platform. And despite being utterly useless in combat, they're still the best thing this doctrine and almost good enough to actually pick this doctrine over others because the very rapid fire, 140 muni artillery is exactly what you need to deal with massed HMGs and PaKs.

If only the rest of the doctrine wasn't so freaking terrible.

A bit on scatter...

Scatter has two components, horizontal and vertical

Horizontal scatter is determined by angle_scatter, and is simply the amount of degrees that the round can deviate from the target position. Multiply by distance to target to get how far horizontally your round can be off from the target.

Vertical scatter is determined by distance_scatter_max, distance_scatter_offset and distance_scatter_ratio. Distance_scatter_ratio is the important bit here and works like angle except vertically. So again multiply by distance. The result will be capped by distance_scatter_max, in case the range*ratio value would be higher.

Distance_scatter_offset will determine the percentage of rounds that over or undershoot. As 0 means an even distribution in the area, a value of 0.57 (which is also the highest overshot in the game) like on the IS2 means that 50+0.57*50 = 78.5% of shots overshoot. This is why standing in front of shotblocking objects and thus letting overshot rounds hit you is a particularly bad move against IS2. No weapon used by a unit actually has a negative value here, everything is either neutral (mortars) or overshoots to some extent (everything else). As such you should generally go towards the thing shooting at you if you want to dodge a shot.

As an example for the soviet 82mm mortar, barraging at range 53 (midpoint as min 25 max 80), your barrage area will be 0.08(angle)*53 = 4.24 horizontal and 0.075(ratio) * 53 = 3.975 vertical. Most weapons don't have much of a difference in vertical and horizontal scatter so you can just ignore the difference.

This is a bit smaller than the area shown on the barrage reticule ingame, which starts off at 3.75 at 25 and ends up at 7 at 80, while actually the barrage area will start off at 2 and end up at 6.4. Generally speaking very few targeting reticules are completely accurate and almost never take veterancy bonuses to scatter etc. into account. Some like the Ostheer mortar barrage at 14 max (actual: 7.2) are just ridiculously off.

If I recrew a pak gun with Jaeger Infantry and take casualties, will the reinforcements be Jaeger or normal crewmen? And which MP cost will be used to reinforce?

Reinforcements will be Jaegers too and the MP cost will be the same as on a Jaeger squad (37MP)

Does the 120mm even have an advantage over the 82mm anymore?

A bit of extra range in exchange for higher cost and slower firing. I'd never go 120mm anymore if you have T2.