Profile of Descolata

Perfect, that means we're on the same page. I await your script!

The B-4 is being changed from an AT gun/shock weapon to a howitzer. Thr problem is they don't want it to clone the ML/20, which is now a serviceable howitzer thanks to CB removal and decreased anti howi abilities. The B-4 doesnt have a design space right now, especially with the bugginess of Direct Fire (just make the shell seeking).

It can go a few ways:
1. Precision backbreaker with low scatter rounds. Still useful for softening tanks. Easiest change, as just alter FoW multi from 1.75 to 1.25 and cut Max Scatter angle and distance by 10-20%. This is what the Priest and Sexton are. There is an unused B-4 profile in the tools that does this.

2. ML/20 clone. Faster time between shell is required. But why.

3. Win condition. Decrease bombard cd dramatically. It doesnt hit hard, or hit fast but the shells keep coming. Think old Pak Howi. This would be rage inducing.

Or
4: make it a proper AT gun without the lottery. Let direct fire seek like a tank shell and for all B-4 hits either increase damage or have the B-4 apply some kind of crit, like stun or tread break. This would go well with a small scatter reduction (if its supposed to hit mediums) and would not need multiple stupid long reload shells. Cut barrage cd to maintain current dps vs structures, its pretty crappy already. I can provide specifics if mod team wants them, i still have my spreadsheet.

Its current iffy damage with worst in class dps and miserable scatter just isnt functional.

Especially with lost AOE damage. The balance team keeps cutting the lethality of every explosive they touch without tweaking similar ones to maintain bleed parity. If it aint dead it aint bled.

On a historical note, B4's shot 100kg frag shells with 15kg HE. Thats double the weight and triple the HE of the ML/20 frag round. The 150kg concrete piercing rounds were behemoths.

Great work!

What do you mean by mixed weapons? Adding lmgs and various should be straightforward as long as range is fixed as those weapons always stay around till the end, so use their DPS for the botton 1-to-2 troops (or am i missing something). The biggest outlier will be non-focus fire weapons which have weird characteristics, which is why Falls sometimes feel bad. But you predict SMG results welll so it looks fine.

Ill be waiting on that script, it'll be nice to have more good tools.

I have a different opinion:
Tactical support is a well designed commander that follows the Infantry commander design. Both have LMG, both have a light vehicle (MHT/M5), both have an off map, while infatry get mines and Tactical get recon.

On the other hand Urban defense gets much more, no tech grenades, superior mediums and less micro (can keep AP round and fire WP against soft targets), superior infatry in Rangers, one of the best smoke in game with cover to cover, plus the Calliope. The commander is simply overloaded and above other commanders and those show in picks.

In numbers UA score consistently above TS in all modes being first or second pick.

I believe TS is just underloaded. And you know off maps are very much not created equal. TS is a weak team game doctrine with what was a garbage off-map (thank you patch notes!). Infantry has the only guaranteed howitzer killing off-map, rifleman field defenses, and the only real howitzer for USF. TS wants to be Infantry, but misses the rest of the long-range rifle support and two low impact off-maps. USF gets great recon planes non-doc, the doc option isn't worth it. And the Calliope and the P47 strafe are both blob control tools, resulting in serious redundancy. The doc needs an AT source or consistent fortification control. It needs something more.

UA is a bit overloaded. The WP tank rounds are fun but absolutely overkill. A tank shouldn't counter its counter, which WP absolutely does. The Dozer blade is in a good place otherwise, and with Mechanized losing its blade UA will be (I believe) the only Dozer Blade doctrine.

That's ok, because the Centaur exists

110 fuel and 11-13 pop is a lot for AA. There isn't that much pop cap in a late game UKF army for dedicated AA. And 110 fuel whenever you need to deal with planes is... steep. And its end tier. Bofors is the actual UKF dedicated AA, especially with the recent changes so it actually shoots down planes.