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Before addressing the elephant on the room (arty cover), i'll give a brief description of the whole commander.

2CP: Designate command vehicle.
Currently on LIVE, it's been use as one of the ez ways to get constant vision. For the late game, this proves useful for the use of offmaps.
Mostly addressed with WBP (although the design of the ability still should be changed and the recon should cost muni)

4CP: Field Recovery Op. (2RE with scavenge kit)
450mp for 2RE with sweepers and scavenge kit. They are similar to Tank hunter (SU) scavenge kit rather than OKW one.
To make "justice" to the other thread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulOHolWYpc&feature=youtu.be&t=9482
The problem is not the resource gained, the issue is having the sweeper kit not taking a weapon slot. You can still double equipped them with PIATS/Brens (the later till WBP arrives)

4CP: Air resupply Operation.
150muni for AT gun + MG + medkit. Or how the airborne doctrine/air drop from USF should had been (muni instead of mp).

10CP: Artillery Cover
250muni for OP ability.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GulOHolWYpc&feature=youtu.be&t=9256
DISCLAIMER:
-The ability no longer blinds/jam turrets nor crits engines on vehicles. It "injures" the loader. You might ask wtf is this, well it debuffs the reload time (2x).
-You need LOS to keep attacking the units (GG no smoke with OKW)
-It's still broken against infantry, specially support weapons since it suppress/pins you.

Regarding the vid:
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I'll go back into this ability later.

For 99% of the playerbase this is the complete roster of abilities. But trust me, there's a 5th one.

10CP: Forward Observation Post
Call in Close-Air-Support strafes, as well as recon runs, smoke artillery support, and high-explosive artillery. Cost 300mp/60f. With that cost, limited to environment buildings which can't be repaired and having subpar abilities in comparison to IWIN button, who the hell will bother with it.

Personal baked solution to both problems:

FOP:
-Reduce cost to 200mp 30f (values may change but this is just to give an ex)
-Let it be built on Forward assemblies

Artillery Cover:
1
-Now it's casted from the FoP
-It could be limited (or not) to the range of the FOP casting range. This would made it a more defensive tool rather than IWIN push ability.
2
-Let it be casted from FoP and/or Command vehicle
-Ability get's canceled if the unit/building get's destroyed
-Command vehicle casting the ability must remain immobile during the duration of the skill

Close air support/artillery:
-In case we opt for going just with FoP changes and not command vehicle, either of this abilities replaces Arty cover on the normal 5 commander abilities.

Don't retreat the full blob. No one will waste 160 ammo for 1 or 2 units.

On 4v4 it might not be as impactful to wipe a unit or 2. But on lower modes it does (although it's easier to dodge it on them). 90muni (demo) for a single squad is worth. If that Stuka kills something key such as a pak line, it's totally worth the cost.

Anyway, if we could just rollback the unnecessary ninja overbuff, the ability would be back to been fine.

PD: IB4 XYZ is OP. Then just make a thread about it.
PD2: I want to see someone try to justify an increase of 5 times in the deadly zone (for infantry), when the ability was already strong and balanced.

I'm quite surprised that people still think that game made by big company = quality.
better bet on game made by small team of developper dedicated to them like the 3 i just quoted.

It's more like: big company => higher budget on marketing => higher chances of more sales => higher number of people playing

Unless there is a 2nd coming of a golden age of RTS, this is just a trending that will keep going on. RTS are not popular anymore.

It was an interesting concept but implemented extremely poorly.

They retracted too late from their "every plane tells a story mentality" to actually fix it. It was just easier to remove it.

In addition because of the poor engine of the game, framerates dropped to below 20 fps on even the best high end PCs while a Blizzard occurred.

Yeah, rip optimisation.

The worst examples of RNG have been removed from the game. The abandon mechanic was reworked (it's OK now IMO, apart from the US engine band aid), planes no longer pulverize armies, mines can't wipe. What remains is the level of RNG that has always existed in the franchise.

It's true that the first infantry engagement may be decided by RNG, but whether/where/when to take that engagement is up to the player, and on good maps the options are more than sufficient.

Once there are 4-5+ squads for each side, the importance of RNG in infantry combat becomes vastly overshadowed by micro. Something as trivial as a piece of light cover and whether a squad is firing on the move or not will decide a battle much, much more often than which model gets focused in a squad, and the luck factor averages more and more between players the longer the game goes on. Good play, on the other hand, consistently benefits the better player.

As to mortar shell wipes, well, you can hear it firing - stay and take a chance or move your squad (unless you're facing the US one, which is infamously OP as fuck). Players always blame RNG when a squad dies to a mortar, whether it's the first or the tenth shell that kills it.

+1

OP: i'm indifferent to weapon drops (not a strong opinion in favour or against). I think that abandon has been somehow "fixed" by having them with damaged engines. Finally i think it's REALLY funny that you mention Hearthstone. I think Poker is a better example but this also backfires your point.
Think about tank combat (late game) as late game 1v1 poker with the difference that control of RNG is higher on CoH2. Positioning, moving/stopping to fire, attack target/ground, front/rear armor, n/m/f range, penetration, etc.