Profile of Cruzz

It literally takes one boolean changed from false to true to fix this. But has been in the game since WFA release so can't say how long it'll take to actually get the fix live

If this were the case, you would never see the PTRS since it cannot fight Infantry or Vehicles effectively. DP Guards would obviously be the meta-choice.

PTRS is not nearly as bad against infantry in this mod than in release and is a bit better against vehicles. And I'd probably give them a new special ability and 3 or even 4 PTRS with the upgrade.

Most or all Shermans have increased accuracy on the move. It's .75 for all variants including the Soviet Sherman, I haven't looked at the Bulldozer though and I'm too tired to bother with it. I looked at the Easy Eight and it's at .75 just like the others.

Accuracy for tanks vs infantry does absolutely nothing. The EZ8 does not have a scatter multiplication while moving, a trait that is shared by...a vet5 okw panther. Other units that have a special modifier on this are Luchs at 1.25, normal sherman is 1.5. Stuart 1.75. Every other vehicle, 2x scatter on the move.

Personally I say give them one FG-42 and 3 MP 40 (AG or custom version), reduce cost.

MP40 seems silly because they seem to be meant as a ranged squad.

too bad. i would have really liked it, if abandon was tied to heavy engine crit. so you cant steal a vehicle and just drive to your base with it at full speed

Making abandon force a heavy engine crit is easy and I'll probably do it the next time I'm patching something in. But my attempts to make abandon chance higher if the vehicle had heavy engine damage never really worked.

I don't know about all this tank crit stuff. I loved this mod because it was just simple changes that made underused units and abilities viable. Now it's starting to really change larger dynamics of the game. TBH I would be much happier if things were left the way they were originally because this mod is started to get a bit complicated.

Well, basically the crit changes come down to this:

Vehicles should actually die at 0% health and abandon can't happen with some weapons (mines and small arms).

It's one of the things I originally wanted to do, just couldn't get around to it until later because the number of filechanges required was so high it made me avoid touching it.

Some points of (hopefully) constructive criticism:
I'm not a fan of the most recent main gun destroyed change. I understand wanting to keep the mechanic but currently it kind of feels like it just replaces the death crits style rng mechanics you worked to remove. If main gun destroyed has to remain in, maybe just add it back to ram as a possible crit when the rammed target is below a certain amount of hp?

Yeah...I'll just disable the entire crit for now, can just put it back in again if there's some actually good idea what to do with it.

I love that you're working with guards but they still don't seem quite right to me. They feel very strong as a long range anti infantry squad now when upgraded (because of the ptrs change) but they seem almost too good in this role, especially vs grens and still not that great in their AT role. I know you don't want to make major changes but I'd like to see guards provide the soviets option for hand held AT while shocks remain the elite infantry AI call in. That said, sovs could use a long range infantry unit and Penals already overlap largely with cons so... Why not swap the penal carbines with the guard's rifles and give the dp upgrade to penals. Then you'd be free to buff guard's ptrs rifles in their AT capability without fear of them being spam able jack of all trade units. This would provide the Sovs with scalable core infantry as well as a doctrinal infantry based AT option that might actually help against anything other than light vehicles.

I know, guards are even more spammable in my mod right now than in the proper game. Though I'm not sure if they're good enough to actually be an issue, especially with their tendency to destroy their own cover I'd say grenadiers will come out ahead of them cost performance wise fairly quickly, and compared to conscripts and shocks they do poorly against HMGs because the only ability they have against them is grenades. Synergy with snipers remains an issue, wouldn't say the PTRS changes really affect it. Probably too good against OKW not using MG34s or fusiliers due to the Kubel not really working on them that well. Not gonna adjust for now, need to play with them more myself.

Swapping unit roles like that opens up so many issues. You will now have shocks with long range infantry supporting them in 1vs1. You'll have button with IS2. And so on. It could work, or it could be an absolute nightmare that can't ever be balanced.

PTRS as credible AT is unlikely to happen, rapid fire low damage on infantry just isn't good against tanks in current game mechanics. Increasing the number of PTRS up to 4 might make the squad atleast somewhat scary to vehicles, but beyond that any change to make them more credible AT is going to make them seem less like at rifles and more like schreks.

Small fix patch:

6.11.2014.1:

Fixed Recon Commander Forward Observers being permanently disabled on a rifle squad if the "leader" model got killed while the ability was active.

Removed maingun crit from all vehicles for now.