Profile of GuyFromTheSky

I had a big infatuation with space and spacefarers and my personal idol and hero were Gagarin. I used it in some different games but one time i was going to sign up to something and the name was taken.

Allegedly, when Gagarin reentered the atmosphere and landed on earth he landed in a field where and a farmer and his daughter was working. They became terrified of the man in the orange space suit walking towards them he said something in the lines of "Don't worry, i am a soviet citizen like you, i just came from the sky and i need to find a telephone to call Moscow."

As i sat and thought about a new nick a song by my favorite band called "Truckfighters" came on. The name of the song was "Guy From The Sky" and it was so fitting. It has stuck ever since.

No close combat squad will ever get close to the LMG blob because they'll just suppress them as they show up. And even if your suppression LMG is set to do 0 damage you still have the other weapons in the squad doing damage.

Not every faction has light vehicles capable of doing anything to a blob of infantry, soviets and ostheer namely. M3, 222 and 251 simply lack the armor and damage output to actually be a threat to multiple units in one place.

What i meant was if the LMG blob is suppressing one squad on one part of the field you can move in with squads from other parts. They cannot suppress everyone at once. This is what i meant with flanking.

I respect your knowledge of the game. How do you propose LMG's should be tweaked to not be the no-brainer, go-to solution in AI combat it is today? Or are you happy with how it is?

Do you guys think having to stop to fire would end blobbing and LMG effectiveness? I am not so sure about this.

I think blobs partly is an effect of LMG effectiveness. You cannot compete squad to squad with an LMG and you need to blob up your infantry to be able to take on LMG squads. I think adding some new mechanics is needed for this game to develop and thrive. Todays mechanics favor blobbing and stale meta and this is what drives people away. I don't think new mechanics is something bad, on the contrary, i think they are essential. They just need to be thoroughly thought out and tested before implementation.

What do you think would happen if you lowered LMG damage, removed fire on the move for those that have it and added a small suppression to them, perhaps with a setup time of half a second or so. The suppression should not be close to the HMG value but still large enough to be dangerous. I'm thinking maybe a squad without cover could be suppressed in 5 or 10 seconds and squads in green cover would not be suppressed at all. Perhaps to balance it you could decrease movement speed with squads with an LMG a bit to make them not so mobile.

How i think it would turn out it would make LMG squads more of a support squad and not a pure AI terminator killing machine. It would promote cover-play and flanking and if the suppress radius is big enough, completely shut down blobbing. The biggest problem i can see is still keeping the HMGs relevant. I think this can be done by perhaps increasing damage or penetration to make them effective against light vehicles or maybe adding more suppression to HMGs to make them more of an area denial instead of the "area annoyance" they are today.

What are your thoughts on this?

Edit: And of course Obers should buy their LMGs like everyone else.

Are you happy with how the development of the game has gone so far?