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With exception of the German infantry doctrine squad leader upgrade, I rarely see grenadier medkits used. Neither in tournament replays nor in matches I play. I believe this to be due to several factors. Impractical forward reinforcement, small squad sizes and cost per use.

251 halftracks are not used for forward reinforcement due to the timing they arrive, the ability to take map control is more important than holding ground thus either the offensive flamethrower upgrade is taken or a 222 is purchased instead.

The small squad size means that grenadiers are typically pulled back to base post engagement for reinforcement after dropping 2 models, as a result you rarely have low HP grenadiers with a large portion of the squad intact ready to be healed and in the field. This is tied to the third point:

Cost. Despite the buff to 15 munitions per use and the ability to self heal, the potential HP healed per use is rather low due to the small squad issue and thus not cost efffective. The exceptions being on the 6 man ostruppen squads or the 5 man assault grenadier squads.



My suggestion:

Make medkits available from vet 0, but increase cost to 20 munitions, increase cooldown to 1 minute and make self targetable only.

Change vet 1 to give "increased medical training"
Reduce medical kit cost to 5 munitions and allow it to be used on allied squads.


The benefits of these changes are thus:
Limited healing option without a bunker or vet allows grens to stay on the field a little easier against rifles and penals early game but the cost of 20 munitions and long cooldown prohibits overuse.

The reduced cost of 5 munitions at vet 1 makes medical kits far more attractive a purchase but the long cooldown still limits their overuse and the vet restricts their timing to the light vehicle phase.

Not really, penetration of SU-76 for example is incorrect in Cruz doc as it was nerfed less then 2 years ago.

I don't recall this nerf at all, please link to the patch.

Puma stuff

While there are specific situations which favor the allied light vehicles(such as the stuart ambushing the puma with stun shots) the puma is advantaged over all but the su76. This is due to the range, and I have to echo what felix implied: if 10 range is insignificant or marginally useful to you, this is just an indicator of lack of player skill.
(A 3-5 frame timing difference on a move in a fighting game might seem trivial to some, but in the hands of an expert it makes all the difference)

The Su76 has superior penetration and range over the puma which means better scaling, the light artillery barrage gives it arguable better utility vs infantry and weapon teams and falls into a natural tech progression. In the dedicated anti vehicle/tank role the Su76 is definitely superior, but its not built often.

The su76 us often skipped for two reasons. One is that while it is at a timing and cost appropriate to counter enemy shock light vehicles such as a luchs, the reality is that the T70 is so powerful that it's usually taken over the su76 and can counter them on it's own as well as being a powerful anti infantry platform. Then due to the delay between the t70 and another vehicle, Soviets substitute Infantry based AT such as penals or guards or zis to supplement the t70 in order to cheap out and save for tech.

The second reason is that the Su85 serves a very similar purpose as the Su76 while scaling better and being more potent but less of a glass canon and thus easier to keep alive. If you are going to need a long range TD with good penetration, better to just wait for an '85.


The other two have their own niches as well and are important to their respective factions in different ways. The AEC being UKF only medium vehicle but with the ability to provide support via treadshot against heavier vehicles, and the stuart being a strong counter to axis light vehicles (excluding the puma) which once clear give the stuart several minutes of uncontested time on the map.

Although I am not an OKW and I play all factions, I would take the T-34/76 over the ostwind any day.

Given the choice between okw P4, T34/76 and ostwind I would take the OKW P4 almost everytime(unless I'm struggling with fuel control) with perhaps exception if the T-34/76 is a techless callin.

But yes, if the only two tanks I have to pick from are the ostwind and T34/76 I'd probably take the T-34 9 times out of 10.

Ostheer lacks 60 range TD so ostheer players are FORCED to get elefants every match in team games. Relic please give ostheer a non doc 60 range TD to help diversify builds and tactics.

Regarding ai performance, buff the coaxial machine gun dps against infantry. Combined with the extremely potent pintle upgrade it gets that should give it the consistant damage vs infantry everyone wants without having to fiddle with the main gun aoe.

If you want to tweak the main gun damage I'd say at most increase it to 200 and reload to 7.5 seconds.
In all honesty though I prefer the consistant high penetration low damage shots it has now to the high risk vs reward shots it used to have.