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But its just stupid. If its possible to change it, so that it takes only 2 models if your squad has only 3 members left would be great. I think you could categorise it as a bug fix, so it would be in scope.

It is not stupid at all. It's one of the most basic design decisions of coh. This is why the smallest squad is always 4 and the biggest is always 6. So that you could have squads with different number of men, but still had to reinforce to take more than weapon from the field.

Also if you came with grens to take maxim and it took 2 men from your squad you would have to retreat both grens and the maxim. With how it works right now the maxim can stay on the field and keep fighting.

Now that you are fixing bugs and balancing the game and can ask this.

Please fix the display of the model requirements to recrew weapons. It says 2, but ends up using 3 models, and in the case of the ostheer that means loosing entire veted squads by a mistake caused by the display of wrong information, a bug, or wrongly implemented changes.

This may be quite counter intuitive but the value displayed there is the minimal number of models needed to man the weapon. So if you have a squad with less members than this number you can't man the weapon at all, loosing the squad or not. Also, if your wapon is manned, but the number of models manning it drops below this number, the rest of them will run to the edge of the map (usually, sometimes the number of members to run is smaller f.e. in maxim or mg42).

The number you are talking about is the maximal number of models taken from squad when manning the weapon and it is always 3. For all weapons. No need to display it at all.

So in fact this indicator is batter to show the number it shows as it gives at least some insight, even though the number should be shown somewhere else, than to always show the same number.

Mind that this is not true for abandoned vehicles as for them max value differs from one to another. Vehicles can be manned only with a set number of squad members, so the maximal value is always equal to minimal value shown on the indicator. So in this case exactly the number of models shown on this indicator will be taken from the squad. This can also be a reason of you misunderstanding what it means.

I hope it was helpful, ask if you have any questions about it

Does that mean OKW should be getting smoke on all their vehicles now?

Going ptrs on penals cripples soviet player AI really badly. And in this case it is against superior okw infantry. This means, noone reasonable would go more than one ptrs penal. So to use this ability you need one very rare non-doc squad and one doctrinal upgraded squad in the same place facing unsupported vehicle. Is it really that hard not to allow such situation to happen?

The only doctrine that does this is the Tank Hunter one I believe, the last Soviet commander to be added to the game.

Sorry but the only commander that does what exactly? Cant find the context really

the whole point of T1 is that it can't stand on its own. you need to win the early game and get vehicles out sooner than your opponent for reliable AT. adding AT to an AI-heavy build just gives the SU players too many options with no risk.

I don't agree that it should stay without AT. But it might be a good idea to make it more expensive when it actually becomes a valid choice.

Vanilla satchel has 340 damage
Vanilla satchel has 25% friendly fire modifier
Max friendly fire damage: 85

AT satchel has 240 damage
AT satchel has 50% friendly fire modifier
Max friendly fire damage: 120

I really cannot think of any ability in the game that has higher-than 50% friendly-fire modifier (except for a few, very stupid death-critical abilities). Thus, we capped AT satchel there. Thus everything is consistent.

With respect to "Why gammon bomb can't have that". Well, it will, at some point. However that will probably happen in the same patch when Comet and Tommies are both in scope; not before.

Hammer is already a stupidly no-brainer pick. Even though Heavy Gammon bombs are way beyond useless, and for many reasons, we don't want to make Hammer feel any more attractive than it already is.



I really wanted to add this. Howevever adding this requires the implementation to be a lot more complicated (rather than changing 1 value). Thus, if we ever decide to go down that route, It will have to wait until we discover whether the community likes the AT satchel idea or not.



It is possible. However, that would look unintuitive:
- Only the PTRS penals would get access to the new ability, even though two different squads would appear to have the same ability icon/text

Also note that Vanilla satchel deals more damage, but causes not crits.

The reason Penals don't get this ability is so that PTRS Penals can at least do something in the late-game.

Good explanation, thank you.