Profile of Imagelessbean

I think his point is that currently its a no-brainer to use it as a UC-maphax tool so there is a double incentive to not use it as an Aura vehicle (cheap map hax and the penalties making it generally not worthwhile to make an AEC or Cromwell a command vechile). By removing the UC option you at least remove half of the disincentive to use it as an Aura vehicle so that the penalties can be looked at in the future.

I do agree that the speed nerf is the primary reason I find it hard to use it as an aura vehicle, which is a shame because I've always felt like the aura was one of those secret borderline OP things that nobody uses because of the meta. You can get some pretty great synergy with a command vehicle and Fireflies for example. Personally I'm looking forward to trying CV AVRE again now that there is a hold fire button to make AVRE less frustrating to use.

You want a unit that moves at the speed of a snail to move slower?

How do you even manage to get a shot off before your opponent drifts lazily to the left to avoid you?

Sooooooooooo basically Axis is getting nothing but pure buffs, and that's still not good enough. Why not just give both Axis factions access to the V1 at 1 CP and call it a day? Would that be a balanced game for you?

This is borderline trolling and is not helpful to the discussion.

Back on topic. Engineers near a demo, even if it could be done, would be abused by sight blockers, but it would eliminate the demo wipe through FoW. The idea of forcing it to be built on structure makes more sense to me anyway, its not exactly easy to hide a hundred pounds of TNT in the middle of a road and maintains the feel of the game as fast paced individual decision points, instead of camping and waiting for units to approach.

Also have people never walked conscripts through an lmg gren squad and watch the lmg42 rendered useless due to the model trying to rotate? Same could be said about the ptrs.

Yes, but that is a skill based avoidance of DPS, what's the point here?

Forcing squads to position to fire is fine, it requires intense micro from the player trying to pull it off and it is still really hard.

Grens aren't really supposed to counter Rifles with a Bar, they only need to stay competent against them. PG's are supposed to be used to counter Barred rifles. And here is why:

Grens come with a huge number of tools, snares (no tech), nades (no tech), free MG upgrades (current tech requirement only delays appearance). [Before you jump on me about free MG's understand what I am saying is only that you don't have to pay to unlock the opportunity to buy them.] They also come in a faction that is designed around holding territory so in this role they excel, dealing good long range DPS helps to protect MGs from flanking units.

PG's on the other hand are meant to be powerful AI and should appear some time after the vet appears on the rifles. This is the problem, they struggle to gain vet fast enough to keep up with rifles and at some point become such a MP sink that you fall behind. It also doesn't help that simply by picking American you forced Wehr to build a pak early to protect against the deadly stuart, which if the American player forgoes you end up a PG squad down to him as he beats you with rifles.

Now the American player should have to choose to get AI or AT on his rifles, mixing is inefficient. When he does this at least one squad is easily beaten by Grens at all ranges. If instead he upgrades his RE's with zooks he should now not have the munitions until later to get Bar's and your grens should hold the advantage this whole time.

Currently in game what actually happens is that the American player gets a couple of rifles and picks up a mortar. He then goes on to bleed the Ost player for having an MG, which is required. The Ost player rushes around trying to deal with American rifles by upgrading his Grens, but now the American player can seemlessly transition to the Stuart and pick off more models. If the Ost player drops PG's the stuart can now close the gap and punish the MG, since he won't have enough munitions for everything. If the American player does not see PG's he can easily afford to get another mortar and bleed the Ost player trying to bunker down or get a pak howie and do the same. At this point the powerful rifle blobs start to come into their own and late arriving PG's simply won't keep up.

The last issue here is the problem of the USF mortar regularly wiping Gren squads. This issue is so painful because without Grens to support MGs the map falls into USF control and fast tech to the Stuart forces an even more lopsided game as the Ost player scrambles to get the pak.

My analysis at the end of the day is this: USF currently holds too powerful a tool. Other factions don't seem as unfairly blessed, although Penals are also a bit of a problem. Brit's are stupid because if they survive to the late game Ost is basically helpless against the tank spam which it cannot hope to match, while Brit infantry continue to increase in effectiveness as more and more upgrades are given to them. Ost grens are not so much at a disadvantage as powercreep and a couple of glaring issues with USF make them feel weak.

The game considers the Base Flaks and Luftwaffe Flaks to be different units, so they can be changed independently of each other. For simplicity and logic's sake, they should probably just gain the MG Bunker.

Good to know, but I also like to avoid confusing players by offering two of the same unit but with different stats.

The base flaks still remain on my list of things I would like to see changed since they are for a faction that used to lack snares on their infantry and could be hunted down by clown cars. I see very few reasons with they should retain this benefit. If the issue is still the timing of the clown car then the clown car needs to be adjusted not an entire faction.