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Hey something not to forget, the commanders should also have an overall theme, play style, and design. Lightning war should be an aggressive doctrine with abilities such as capturing or decapturing faster, speed boost call ins, stuka dive bomb.

Defensive doctrine should be defensive, etc. While you are balancing the doctrines make sure to keep in mind:

PLAY STYLE

Tailor commanders to player style, not just balance

Hmm, good . . . but it's not this:

Skip to 14:30 for the release trailer.

I still think UKF trailer was better despite less fantastic cuts and scenes because of the patriotism in the trailer, and it being historical.

It had some great quotes from soldiers and had the Churchill speech with the combined Soviet US and British assault on Germans at the end.

It felt more real and relatable cuz ww2 actually happened

Then volks should be cheaper to reinforce in late game?

Volks are already super cheap. And the test clearly shows Volks beat Cons at close or mid range.

I'm surprised to see Cons beat Volks at long range. Very skeptical about that. Perhaps because of the buff behind green cover. But out of cover Volks definitely win

I think perhaps the worst change in the entire changelog, is making Panzer Fusiliers completely replace Volks.

Give players choice. Make the units serve different roles. Remove the Fussilier as a core combatant and make it into a specialized elite unit. I think remove STGs from Volksgrenadiers and give them G43s. Then give Fussies STGs and make them the elite close ranged units for OKW. Literally I think this is the best way to remove overlapping from these units.

I think someone can have a better idea but this comes to mind:

Remove STGs from Volks give them G43s and give 6 Sturmpio variant STGs to Fussiliers. Now you have a truly unique terminator unit. They won't replace Sturmpios because Sturmpios have repairs.

Or here is another idea. Make Panzerfusiliers a dedicated Panzer support or mechanized unit that is a dedicated AT double shrek unit.

Something needs to differentiate them. And I think removing G43 from Fussies and either going the AT or STG track is better. Or make them like Panzer Elite, they always come in a halftrack.

To prevent multi-sturmtiger exploit, you have removed reload abandon from the sturmtiger thereby altering the balance of the unit for the purpose of preventing a rare exploit. The rare exploit is rare and the sturmtiger is not rare so altering a common unit to patch a rare exploit is counter productive. Now there are consequences of the sturmtiger being buffed as a side effect of exploit patching.

I also find it ironic that the changelog gave another reason for the reload abandon change when we all know it is because of the sturmtiger exploit.

This is going to be an endless struggle to find exploits and bandaid patch them by altering unit behavior.

This reminds me of spaghetti flow control code with weird intricate fragile complexities. It'll keep getting worse. Then you'll forget why you made that change and it'll break again. Soon you will have 15 different slight alterations you made to units to prevent something breaking and need to document it all.

What if we need to balance the Sturmtiger in the future by bringing back abandon, but we can't do that because then it will unleash the exploit again? Or worse what is we forget why we did it in the first place?

I think it does more harm than good. Kind of like the USF 100+ manpower exploit. Now because 100+ pop is penalized, players need to be careful not to accidentally go past 100 pop, which can easily happen. Now because you didn't pay attention to reinforcing your squads while ur Sherman was decrewed repairing, you have to suffer a manpower income penalty. This is precisely what I mean. Bandaid fixing exploits by changing the whole thing to fix some small rare behavior is doing more harm than good. More players accidentally hit 101 or 102 pop than players who intentionally abuse it to get 10 Jacksons.

I think a lot of these exploits should just be left alone as features not bugs. I bring this up because this is happening every patch.