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Just a simple question:

Katjusha fires 3 barrages with 12 rockets = 36 rockets and Pzwerfer 1 barrage with 10, is this correct?

No and Yes.

Katyusha is a 4*4 salvo
Pwerfer is a 1*10 salvo

You always get a refund when you cancel. Percentage of resources recovered is the percentage of health remaining with no negative modifiers, so 100% back at full health, half back at 50%, etc.

People really need to actually try things out before going off about shit they don't have a clue about

They might have had higher DPS, but they still didn't have enough DPS to compete with even a single LMG gren squad back when they were 360MP. Now that OKW is in the game with even more insane damage numbers on their infantry, the old price tag would make penals utterly worthless because all you're getting them for is the non-exploding flamer right now, the rifle guys are just there to suck up fire.

Voting no.

To what extent are you allowed to modify doctrines? I doubt you can swap out abilities (not asking you to though), but what about raising / lowering costs or CP's? I think you can modify abilities because you've done it before with Soviet Industry, which is good because Elite Armoured's biggest failing is that half it's abilities are just inferior and more expensive versions of other faction's abilities.

You can do whatever that isn't making completely new commanders. You can replace every single ability in a commander, you can make commander abilities non-doctrinal, etc. There's an UI limitation in that none of the changes you make will show up until you are ingame and have chosen a commander, every commander ability list etc until then is hardcoded for now.

Emergency Repairs is expensive and comes with the risk of abandonment that Soviet Crew Repair doesn't. It also takes much longer than USF Critical Repair, which can be pulled off before an MG 42 even sets up to fire.

USF crit repair is stupid but not gonna touch it for now. There is no abandon risk on the emergency repairs any more than there is on soviet repair, ie it's the exact same 5% as normal. The code for the ability is messy but I'm pretty sure the heal amount on it is not correct right now.

HEAT Shells are okay I guess, I don't really have a comment for them. I'd hoped they were passive like Panzer Elite's version. Mostly good if you get desperate with a Puma or Panzer IV Ausf J.

They increase both damage and penetration, they'd be OP as hell as a passive.

Panzer Commander isn't worth replacing the MG Gunner, his barrage is expensive and his sight bonus is small.

Pretty much, which is why I want to give him more stuff as I like to think of him as one of the key points of the commander.

Panzer IV Ausf. J's are reletively weak tanks, they need to be babysat or they can be lost in an instant. Dispite being called Veteran, they usually show up with 1/3 Vet to Vet 1. They're inferior to the Wehrmacht P4 in every way, though they are slightly better than the T-34/76 due to machine gun DPS.

I don't think there's anything particularly wrong with PIV Js apart from them having no place in OKW's lineup due to the super easy access to Panther + KT they already have. Which is a really hard thing to fix...

Was gonna work a bit more on OKW elite armor (thinking of adding a small aura to the vehicle commander for some reload bonuses or similar) but want to fix the ober STGs so patching now

9.11.2014 patchnotes:

Balance:
Abandon now deals destroyed engine and maingun to the vehicle so they're not usable straight off. Does not apply to special sturmtiger reload abandon.

Ostheer sniper has 8 more HP (survives one more shot against small arms, 33% increase in health against conscripts/guards, 16% against rifles)

Riegel mines can now be laid with 222 as well.

OKW base defences can not be sniped. Still vulnerable to grenades. OKW base defense penetration halved so they don't counter light tanks. Neither change applies to buildable flak emplacements.

OKW Elite Armor Heat shell duration from 20 to 25 seconds, cost from 45 to 40
OWK Elite Armor Tank Commander coordinated barrage triggerable range from 35 to 45


Bug fixes/consistency:
Ober STG upgrade works again (broke it ages ago)

Fixed Major artillery refiring at all previous locations when major hits vet2

Increased penetration priority and removed short range priority on Stuart Shell Shock to make it target mostly vehicles instead of prioritizing infantry next to it.

Made all wrecks destructable with small arms and flamers. Note: this just means you can remove the final 1% of health, armor values are unchanged.

B4, Soviet Sherman wrecks can now be salvaged.

Soviet salvage ability now works on USF mortar ht, M15, ez8, ez8 brewed, bulldozer brewed, m4a3 brewed. Modified wreck values for soviet salvage to be closer to current unit prices for values that were completely whack.

Speaking of, I just thought of something. Earlier you mentioned giving the other 3 Obers a 'heavy weapon' Kar 98, so they would be able to have high DPS spread out, but not retain it if used to recrew. But wouldn't these Kar 98's also prevent the MG 34 from being handed down, like how PTRS's prevent DP's from being handed down?

Yes, that'll happen. Thought one particular thing in slot item scripts would change that, but apparently it's a deprecated feature that doesn't do anything. So instead I could just add a lot of bonuses to the obersoldaten squad and make them use regular weapons. This will mean they turn picked up weapons into similar monstrosities as their own weapons are right now, but remanning with them will give the base weapons with no bonuses and any weapons dropped by the obers will be "normal" performance when picked up by other squad types.