Profile of Imagelessbean

It sounds ok but the reload at the start sounds clunky as hell. It'll slow the whole thing down. If the ability insta-supresses all squads in the arc then it'd be worth it.

Keep in mind that the vet 1 on the MG42 and 34 both require a reload before they start. This helps prevent them from switching to AP and instantly wiping the unit in the arc. It also forces a little fore sight.

If an ability like this was triggered the suppression would be extremely high, it would basically force instant suppression and rapid pins. However, you wouldn't be very effective vs. another MG because you would need to reload under fire, and you would lose DPS so the other MG could just wait it out if you had sufficient cover. The goal here is to build out the MG's function without making it work independently of other units.

About the "you can not sweep everywhere for demos", you can not sweep everywhere for tellers either if you make a push from 2 sides (head on and flank).
Just saying!

This is true and I don't deny it, but there are some big differences.

Tellers are only triggered by vehicles.
They don't respond directly to player control so they cannot be delayed for a bigger hit.
Teller's are usually placed in predictable areas, they are unlikely to be built behind a house for instance.
Teller's can always be avoided by playing defensively with a tank, whereas demo's cannot be avoided forever because it requires a unit cap a point alone at some time.
Teller's are in a munitions limited faction.

I am not saying that teller's aren't good, they are extremely good, but they don't have the potential for MP bleed like a demo.

For instance, yesterday I was forced to retreat my SP with sweepers to base. The VP and a munitions point was open. I needed to cap the VP but I was forced with two options: risk demo or don't cap. Since I cannot afford to maintain two SP's with sweepers I have to be able to move around the map at least with the risk of MP bleed but not wipes when they are not around. If it was a mine I could evaluate whether the loss of models was worth it, but with a potential demo I have to just sit for 1-2 minutes while I wait for the SP to come back. This is not fun to watch and is silly because the other player gave up nothing, since he had scripts and MGs so he could not use any of the munitions he was getting anyway (this is not a dig at them, they played well).

I actually think tellers are fine. You can only place 1 or 2 and you should be sweeping for a vehicle push.

Demo's are not fine. You simply cannot scout every place on the map before you attack with a minesweeping squad, and the soviet army generally has munitions to burn. This is confounded by the extreme damage and range of the demo meaning even if you aren't right on top of it, it can still wipe squads. It is funny when it wipes blobs (blobbers beware) but it is far too punishing for infantry play. Demo's could only be built on structures in COH1 and had timers which made good sense, but controllable demo's are too powerful.

How about if Pathfinders cannot pick up weapons but come at 0cp's? It would also be cool if they could cap points slightly faster so they could be used as recon and harassment. In this case I could see a reduction in their absurdly high reinforce cost.

Changing 50 cal and AT gun to munitions seems fine to me.

Paratroopers arrive at the right time. They are extremely cheap to reinforce for an elite squad and they have deadly upgrades. If anything is needed maybe they could lay mines? That would help increase their flexibility while also demanding more munitions from the doc.

The P47 strafe is actually not far off from where all call-in planes should be. I actually like the idea of having a single pass with a much lower cost and slightly better tracking. If multiple passes are retained the tracking should be improved slightly. For such powerful tools with area denial I prefer that the passes happen just once so the game can move on, and to prevent them getting to snipe away vehicles with little player input.

excellent useless comment, you idiot...


it happens, you just haven't noticed, I see this happening all the time on streams. today I was just watching zarok and he lost a vickers because this

Easy, don't insult people.

I have had issues with units not always setting up and when I reissue the order they always do. From your report it appears that the unit cannot do so unless it engages in combat. If you issue the command again does it set up the MG?

This is not going to be solved in a 5 minute form chat, but if we can get the details down the mod team has been very good about finding and squashing bugs.