Profile of ferwiner

As I said the cover bonus ability is sbps and no ebps and that it a squad ability and applies to all squad members.

The penalties for firing on in cover come from the weapon and their cover tables and apply to entity.

Exactly. No arguing with that. My last post was only about additional cover bonuces that ostruppen and IS get, not the original dps reduction.

Garrisons give garrison cover, which is better than light but slightly worse than heavy cover. That includes transports which infantry can fire out of, but not closed ones like the Sd.Kfz. 251 and Opel Blitz.

An important note: garrison cover is worse than green cover in the sense of incoming dps reduction, which is how garrisons can be cleared with siege, without granades, but it is much better in the sense that it has no minimal range, so you can't just close into a building to remove it, like you can with other types of cover.

What kind of arty? If by arty you mean leig, then pack howitzer is a good ISG of your own. Heavy artillery is rarely seen in 1v1s. As for vehicle based artillery, the m8 scott is hugely underrated. It is really frustrating to play against thanks to its range and mobility.

The cold immunity is there because nobody cared about removing it. The ability has been ballanced for automatch, so removing for the sake of taking one ability off custom games makes no real sense.

OP: i don't think M10 needs to be made a stock unit but i agree with the concept of "mid tier" unlocks which would help with the timings of certain units.

OKW: i've suggested previously for a mid gap between JPIV/Ober and PIV/PV which would also help with other call ins such as Ostwind and Hetzer.

USF: i guess applying the same principle is worth a try. It's no longer "free tech" but not as expensive as of now.

The ostheer type stop gap tier seems to be a solution now, but lets not forget what caused the problem in the first place. And that was the huge increase in cost of tier 3 in all factions aimed to lenghten the LV play. What it really did was cause problems with LVs like T70 and luchs that had to be nerfed in order to keep them ballanced. But they were completely fine before that! And so were the mediums. Yes, shermans did arrive quicker than they do now. But so did stugs that countered them. And because they arrived so quickly, there was a point for them to be in top tier, because even though meds were in the same tier as late game units, they arrived at the time when building late game unit would be simply a mistake. That is how it was ballanced out before.

To sum up, I have a strong feeling that all of this is just trying to change everything in the game to ballance around the fact that a huge mistake has been made and devs don't want to admit that and revert that change. I mean, I know this process is halfway done, yet I think it is important thing to be aware of.