Profile of Cabreza

Air supremacy is pretty ridiculous, particularly vs OKW atm. I often see it paired with strafing support for a nuke everything around your truck combo in 2s. On larger open maps you can dodge it but on maps such as semoisky there often isn't enough room + pathing issues which prevent you from getting out of the way in time. The strength, and as a result price, of air supremacy need to be reduced to the point that it isn't consistently nuking OKW structures or leaving them with a sliver of health.

It appears Relic reused the old Urban Assault bombing ability without changing it and I think it's resulting in the ability being more powerful than intended. Also it seems to use HE111's instead of Lancasters.

It isn't uncommon for coders to re-use existing code rather than creating all new code. Particularly when the existing code isn't currently being used. It's lazy but probably intended since you never even see the planes. How they thought the ability would be balanced for the Brits when it wasn't for Wher though is beyond me.

Nope, it means information like map, players, factions, chat, etc. is stored and then shown when you view a replay thread on COH2.ORG. vault takes a replay and gives this information to COH2.ORG, they store it and show it in the replay section of the site.

Eventually vault will be able to get information on build orders and player commands, but that will take some more work.

It sounds like Vault integration would be really useful if you wanted to search for replays featuring a specific build order or to find the worst chat BM to make it into the replays section.

The mortar HT as a unit is essentially fine. It's more an issue of how effective indirect fire and flame weapons are vs Brit emplacements as a whole. Right now one mortar HT means no Brit emplacements thanks to it's incendiary ability.

But what about 1919 Rifles? The 1919 is essentially an LMG42 in all respects and Riflemen have 5 men AND better received accuracy.

The M1919 costs 15mu more than the LMG42 AND does less dps. It is deliberately overpriced to account for the fact that it can be put on a more durable squad and that two of them can be purchased. Riflemen also cost 40 more MP than grens do while individual entity performance is worse until vet3 to account for the extra soldier. I think you would agree that m1919 riflemen are hard enough to deal with, we don't need a 240mp/60mu squad with similar dps and better survivability until vet3 arrives. That is why in my original post I discuss the trade offs grens would have to make if you wanted to add a 5th man. LMG damage and/or price would have to be one of those trade offs.

I like the idea of making grens a 5 man squad as it would help early survivability vs pretty much every kind of explosive and would represent a german army that hadn't yet been depleted of manpower on the eastern front. There are, however, a couple of concerns that would need to be addressed:

Grenedier DPS: Individual gren dps would have to be reduced so a 5 man squad does the same or less damage as a 4 man squad to ensure that grens don't become too powerful early game due to the added model.

Grenedier MP Cost: If the dps of a 5 man gren squad isn't reduced below what a 4 man squad currently does then the price of a gren squad (and subsequently reinforcement) would have to be increased to account for the extra surviability. How much of an increase I can't say but 260 would be a good starting point.

LMG DPS: One of the reasons grens are so strong late game is the amount of DPS their LMG outputs. Likewise one of the reasons they remain relatively balanced late game as well is because of how fragile a 4 man squad can be later on. If gren survivability increases then the DPS of their LMG upgrade would have to decrease to account for the extra late game survivability of the squad.