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I loved the suppression effect of mines in vCoH, very effective for flank protection. In CoH2 explosives caused "Infantry reactions" but the removed it a couple of patches ago. I would love to see either reaction or suppression again.

As would I. I would also like to see the bug where mines make no sounds removed, but hey its only been 2 years.

OK i got the first 1 wrong
you mean if the model with the weapon dies on retreat another model from the squad has to pick up the weapon unlike their mg42 that is magicaly teleportet to the next model

Exactly the problem. It should not be different between factions.

Weapon teams should not drop weapon on retreat.

i disagree and this applies for germans aswell O.o


Weapon team clumping makes rifle gernades too effective for cost.

same with molotov and any normal nade

The problem with drop on retreat is that a single lucky RNG kill on the gunner can nullify retreat. I understand this is less realistic but it does the game good to have them not drop. In any case it should not be different between factions. Retreat should play the same for both factions.

Remember the range on molotovs and other nades is much shorter than rifles nades. Rifles nades allow squads to barely enter or not even enter the cone of fire to wipe a team. This is crucial for maxims that have relatively poor suppression, they require enemies to get close to kill effectively. At max range they cannot be used effectively, so a vet 3 gren makes maxims near useless. Both other grenades require you get closer. This increase the risk quite a bit. However, I do understand that grenades being thrown at long ranger under suppression is stupid right now.

I would like to see a couple of changes to Soviet weapon teams, but am interested in people's feedback.

Weapon teams should not drop weapon on retreat.
While realistic this makes the teams much worse than Wehr and OKW teams which do not drop the weapon while on retreat. Maxims are extremely vulnerable to the pick up, die, drop, pick up, die, drop cycle. Zis guns can still be dropped, but Obers need to be looked at as they can snipe models off which are trying to move the gun one by one until the gun is completely decrewed.

Weapon team clumping makes rifle gernades too effective for cost.
Rifle gernades are too effective right now against weapon crews. These can easily wipe whole teams with a single shot that can be fired through fog at long ranges. There is no counter play to rifle nades. You always get hit by them you can just spread out your units. Rifles nades should not automatically out class weapon teams. This also makes Soviet mgs scale very poorly.

Response time is still bugged.
Currently weapon teams can still "debate" whether to carry out an order immediately or to continue a command and then complete the order. This is especially true in mortars. After a retreat command is given the unit may continue to fire another shell. This should never happen. As the unit is already vulnerable to dropping the weapon and being sniped by high dps long range German units they need to respond immediately.

Suppressed maxim is still able to control unsuppressed weapon teams.
Maxims, even when suppressed are able to return fire and suppress other weapon teams even if they are walked into another mg's arc. This should not be the case. Maxims that enter another mg's arc and are suppressed should be punished more severely. Otherwise they still serve the same purpose by suppressing the mg and allowing flanking. This may also happen to German mg's I just see them rarely set up under maxim fire. In all cases mg's should not be able to set up under another mg and suppress it.

120mm mortar is too RNG dependent.
This unit can feel like a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde situation. The lucky hit of a single round can cause the game to end early, but sometimes it takes long periods to even get a kill with it. RNG is part of the game but it is too reliant on RNG.

In larger games plane crash multiple times per game and often change the course of the battle which can easily lead to changes in the winner. In smaller games this will be rarer but RNG will be more punishing here.

Even more annoyingly the faction with the most planes (Ost) can realiably use them as bombs to hit enemy units. I often use the recon planes as flying bombs. I don't know where they will hit but for 30 or 80 munitions I have a uber dive bomb somewhere in my enemy's base, I will take that any day.

Please make plane crashing less punishing. Although PQ already stated in the last stream it happens rarely and is not really a concern for the balance team.