Profile of drChengele

Making a rapid fire grenade launcher as a Primary and make the reload action a munition sink. Make all the reload inveterancy and vet 1 reduce the cost of the reload. I am currently making a mod for adjusting all the commanders to make more viable. I just want to know what do you all think of this. This will transform the Sturmtiger from a one shot wonder to more of a sustain type unit.

Gameplay implications aside, the defensive smoke grenade on the Sturmtiger is launched from the the Nahverteidigungswaffe. This thing had to be manually reloaded by a rather slow process for each grenade fired. I am not a stickler for realism, and Relic has some dubious representations of ww2 in CoH2, but at least all their weapons and units have basis in reality. The rapid grenade launcher as seen in your video simply did not exist on the Sturmtiger.

I am in favour of a passive non-stackable aura buff to conscripts or infantry within a relatively wide radius. Who ever thought of that, give yourself a pat on the back.

This is I feel the most in line with what CoH2 strives to be: combined arms. It will make assaulting supported maxim positions more dangerous. Once you have a Maxim, a player faced with the choice of spending his next 250ish manpower will now have an actual bona-fide reason to click the conscript button instead. The more Maxims you have the more incentive to build conscripts. The more conscripts you have, the more incentive to build a Maxim to support them. This is spam discouragement and combined arms in the purest form.

Also, since the Maxim now has the same set up as the MG42, it loses its offensive flavour almost completely. There are very few incentives / possibilities to perform OFFENSIVE combined arms maneuvers before late-game, and I feel this would be a unique opportunity for just that, a Maxim supporting conscripts on attack. This is why one of the bonuses provided should be supression resistance. The human waves of combined arms are just as good a thematic fit as the Maxim's water cooler, and a better game mechanics fit, IMO.

Wouldn't this just make cons+maxim spam a strategy, rather than the maxim spam? Maybe it would, but I'd love to find out. With the new setup time, this proposed blob would no longer be nearly as mobile, which is a huge thing for any blob strat.

Wouldn't it make the Maxim+conscript combo too powerful on the defense? I dunno, that's 500 manpower and 2 units tied down to a specific spot, it should be pretty resilient.

A temporary ammo-based boost to some stat based on Maxim's water-cooling nature is also good. I mean, "use ammo to have a temporary flat increase to some numbers" is a long-standing CoH tradition (see: HVAP on the Jackson), but it is also lazy game design. But I feel a Maxim should have sufficient damage/supression at vet0, and not wait for vet1 to really shine. Still, better than sprint.

Factions can now get Medium tanks out before OKW has their t4 up.

Yeah if you go Battlegroup (+ buy medics) -> Mechanized (+ buy repairs ) -> build a Luchs, then yes. If only some of the above things were optional... oh wait.

It's the same if I go for an Lt + Captain + Weapon racks + grenade tech + ambulance + Stuart build then complain when a Panzer hits the field.

The explicit function of fuel in CoH2 was always to prioritize allocations of teching and vehicles and create diversity in builds through sidetechs.

OKW can rush a Panther the same way Soviets can rush t34s.

That cost opportunity.

...or was it opportunity cost?

Well I mean, it's true that units other than rifles can pick up zooks, but I don't hear anyone complaining about doublezook Rear Echelon blob.

A video from an isolated case, which a pro player does not pay enough attention to his units does not justify a nerf.

In b4 specific excuses for how this case in particular is special but your generalization still stands.

Fucking called it.