Profile of OrionHunter88

This list is not an exhaustive change log suggestion for the next patch. Merely a suggestion for changes I would like to see within USF - mainly aimed at improving lackluster commander abilities in the already limited USF commander lineup. I expect these changes to be paired with various buffs and nerfs for other factions. I have made some of these suggestions since the Alpha for WFA - namely #1. Change comes slow with Relic but I hope you will agree these would be positive changes.

USF List of Changes

1. Elite Vehicle Crews (USF armored commander) 2 CP/90MU PER CREW. This ability grants vehicle crews 4x Thompsons for 90MU. This is almost completely useless. I think relic’s idea here was that if you manage to bail a crew out you can send them back into the fray with Thompsons. First, I would never blow 90 MU on a fragile as hell squad for CQC fighting with smgs with no grenades, second it’s entirely duplicate since this is commander already has excellent CQC infantry in the form of combat engineers. This ability is expensive and virtually useless. Needs to be overhauled.

Simple suggestion: Make elite vehicle crew a passive ability that grants your vehicle crews a 50% chance of bailing out of a vehicle once that vehicle is destroyed. Whereby you could start cultivating some veteran crews that could ultimately be manning lvl 2-3 tanks late in the game. Exceptions to this would be M20 and Ambulance – since neither of these are manned by typical vehicle crews.


2. Forward Observers (USF Recon Commander) 1CP passive ability granted to rifleman. I’m still not 100% the exact stats on this ability. I think it increases rifleman vision by 5-10% while they are garrisoned/in cover. Great so you can see like +3 range? It is not even noticeable.

Simple suggestion: It should be a base vision increase of +10. Especially considering this only applies while the unit is in cover/garrisoned. Perhaps add a timer to this so that it would take 5 sec or so while in cover/garrison before the bonus kicks in.


3. Air Dropped Combat Group (USF Recon Commander) 7 CP 900MP. Drops two paratrooper squads with random weapons. These paratroopers do not have any of the combat abilities associated with airborne company paratroopers but have light AT mines instead. Also drops unmanned AT gun. Ok there’s a lot going on here. The biggest issue is dropping an unmanned AT gun. Dropping an unmanned weapon behind enemy lines is just ludicrous. And why do these paratroopers have to be different from the others? I mean what’s the point of the light AT mines that late in the game??

Simple Suggestion: Lower MP to 700. Drop two paratrooper squads with a random amount of experience, they will be just like the airborne commander paratrooper and can upgrade weapons. They do not have light AT mines.


4. WC51 Truck (USF Mechanized Commander) 0CP 240MP/20FU. This is a fairly effective unit but I still think it just a tiny tad underpowered mainly because it dies quite easily to gunfire from frontal shots – especially when considering its high fuel cost for a scout car.

Simple suggestion: Increase HP from 180 to 200.


5. M3 Halftrack (USF Mechanized Commander) 3 CP 520MP/35 FU. Given the cost and timing this halftrack is surprisingly incredibly weak. In fact its stats are on par or less than nearly all scout cars and definitely all half-tracks. One other part of this is that I find that the CE deployed are somewhat irrelevant at this timing – demo is nice sometimes but on the whole a single CE squad is a tad lackluster.

Simple suggestion: Increase frontal armor from 5.4 to 11 and increase HP from 200 to 240 or possibly even 320. Also, considering that it currently doesn't have an upgrade why not allow it to upgrade armor plates similar M8/M20, which would further increase armor/HP.
Dream suggestion: Deploys with cavalry rifleman instead of combat engineer. I mean come on those guys were awesome in the campaign! And they would fit well in this commander.


6. 75mm Pak Howitzer. Here’s a unit that under the right circumstance can be pretty handy. However, its base cost of 480 MP is FAR too high. The barrage function is also rather lackluster. There is also a bug with the reinforce cost that doubles the reinforce cost of the unit manning the weapon – so if a RE squad re-crews the weapon reinforce cost will be 40MP, when it should only cost 20.

Simple suggestion: decrease MP cost from 480 to 380. Increase barrage shells from 3 to 4. Fix reinforce cost bug.


7. +25% received accuracy penalty for weapon crews. Now I understand that all weapon crews have this de-buff. The problem is just that it hits the USF hardest for several reasons. – First USF weapon teams arrive much later than their counterparts due to tech structure so they have no chance to get any bet before the heavy stuff hits the field. Axis tend to have better long range DPS so it is fairly simple for them to de-crew USF weapon team (soviets don’t have this problem as bad because their teams are 6 men).

Simple Suggestion(s): Remove the +25% received accuracy penalty from USF weapon teams OR Add a 5th man to the weapon team OR reduce it by 15% at the very least.


8. M9 Bazooka. This weapon is pretty lackluster. Against certain tanks (namely PIV) and in enough numbers it can be effective. However, in most cases they are just a waste of MU. For one thing the neither have enough accuracy nor do enough damage to effectively counter fast light vehicles – Luchs in particular. They also do not have enough penetration/damage to really threaten heavy tanks.

Simple suggestion(s): Increase damage to 120 OR reduce MU cost to 50.


Thanks for reading!

Mmmh. I think most people get confused about how the M10 works. You need to use them in groups, hopefully with an M4 nearby. And be extremely aggresive - roll up point blank behind whatever armor you're trying to take out. You have to be opprotunisitc. Don't roll in while the schreck horde is A-moving across the map and don't go "tank hunting" when you know there's pleanty of AT pointed at out. Not saying it's easy, but it's effective when done right.

I use M10s pretty regularly and find them to be very effective against certain types of Axis armor - I'd much rather have M10s over M36s when fighting Jagdtigers/Elephants, It's very easy to roll in 2-3 M10s to Jagds flank and wipe it out. M10 is also really useful for going deep behind the lines and taking out pesky walking stukas.

When fighting KT/Tiger I prefer Jackson, with range and speed it's usually pretty effective vs those.

Where the problem really arises is when dealing with panther. It's too hardy for either either M10 or M36 to deal with and it's too fast for either one to flank it.

The changes I would like to see.

M10
- Scatter reduced from 7.5 to 6.5
- Vision increased from 35 to 50
- CP reduced from 7 to 6

M36
- Increased penetration from 160/180/200 to 200/220/240
- Increase cost to 135 or 140FU to compensate for penetration buff.

Its a weird unit. Honestly, I've seen it wipe 3-4 blobbed up squads. Other times it barely hits anything - like some people have already stated.

The only real issue I have with it is that is so dang hard to kill. It moves fast, has 320HP, and is well armored against small arms. If an enemy unit looks at a Katy the katy goes boom. Priest is slow and easy to hunt down. I haven't seen a p-werfer in an age so I don't know lol.


Oh the other thing. Why the flip does it have a creeping barrage as default lol? This was probably the single most inaccurate artillery system every designed. There was litterally 0 control over where the rockets went. Just strap the rockets onto a wooden frame at a set angle and point in the general direction of the front line. Such a joke that it can fire from each side of the vehicle and the rockets end up in a straight line. LOL

I hate the walking stuka. It's supposed to be "anti-blob right?".. but it insta wipes any sort of weapon team, or MG in a building, or fighting position. Once a walking stuka comes out USA simply cannot have a defensive position anymore.

When it comes to 3v3/4v4 you BETTER have a couple soviets on your team to spam katyusha. Otherwise you'll just be pummeled to death by rocket artillery.

Whats even more frustrating is that USA doesn't have any kind of reliable anti-emplacement on the level of rocket artillery.

hmm. deleting the temp rec seems to work for me. i played three 1v1s and five 2v2s without a DC so far. i advice anyone who voted "yes" to try the same. maybe it works for you too

if it does crash again, ill make use of that email address. thanks again, ipkai

Where is this temp rec file you deleted?