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I believe in Dawn of War 1/2 it was not hotkey but simply right-clicking the reinforce key. With that said, there's the additional problem that we no longer have the reinforce button when squads are at full strength (they did in earlier version a year or two ago).

Especially with emphasis on automatch this would prove to add micro rather than adding options to "CoH2 macro".
Being a separate hokey may make it an "optional" feature, but this optional feature stops being optional and starts being a mandatory headache once you activate it and have second thoughts. Sure you can argue that de-selecting the hotkey will disable it, fair enough, but what about the units that started reinforcing already and draining as many as 300-500 manpower at once when I decided I should use it on something else? I have to find the units reinforcing and cancel all of them to preserve manpower.

On custom matches with 2x resources this is a good idea...but that's not Relic's focus, it is "Platoon of Heroes taking over a village with flags in it". That's pretty much the ONLY reason why you will never get this idea in place.

It would, but you'd have to go through every new squad to toggle it, and sometimes you do not need or want it toggled afterwards, so you'd have to spend time looking through your squads to find out which one is magically draining your MP.
Would be a huge headache to have a pinned Volks squad near your HQ constantly draining MP because it's being fucked while also getting reinforcements.

IMO a more versatile approach like a "global reinforcement" key that tells all units near a reinforcement point to start getting new bodies. That, or allow "pre-queuing" for reinforcements by selecting up to three men to fill the unit's queue order in the event it needs more men and you want them commencing after they retreat. That way, you can manually do it for each squad you anticipate taking losses, and it will start once it gets depleted and gets near a hafltrack of HQ.

Less than 24 hours out and balance threads already talking about how stuff needs buffs or nerfs

thats because we're no longer in alpha stage

we're in beta stage!

What's the difference? Being T3 and in a different faction does not change the argument here, M5 can transport, infantry can fire outside, can reinforce and in the current state it has a no brainer upgrade. Aside from Quad, its utility is not OP. The same can be said about 250, which also does not have a machine gun. IMO, being able to reinforce will not make it OP at all.

Its a diference because going T3 and spending the fuel for M5 means less fuel for SU-76, as a non-doc option. Ostheer on the other hand can get this option at 2CP. Sure fuel is same cost but it also comes with troops, comes earlier and can be readily used, not having to train and take up a build queue. Not being able to reinforce is the balance. If you really want reinforcing, you can always go T2 and 251 halftrack, and going T2 IMO is more or less something you will do in nearly every game. 250 is the open-topped fighting platform, but not reinforcing or able to have self defense- if it does then you have to explain the benefits of making the 250 an entire replacement to 251, and no, flame projectors don't count considering their munitions cost, late-game access and the option of flame pioniers atop 250 halftracks.

30 fuel for a fragile transport which also takes decent damage from small arms is wayyy too much.

If cost and stats need to be considered then they should be considered, not introducing more capabilities for said unit. IMO being able to reinforce and take away one reason for a non-doc unit to remain relevant doesn't address cost or fragility. The argument you're referring to is that they should be able to reinforce: why and how does that solve high fuel and fragile health?
Giving it reinforce not only makes it OP because it does everything you expect the 251 to do, yet at the same time doesn't even solve the problems it has.

If the 250 is to be compared to any other unit in the game, it should be Soviets' M3A1 scout car, closer to stats and role. That the 250 also happens to be a halftrack is not enough to make it perform as effectively a second, if not redundant, source of reinforcement.

Lol so much for trial. Everyone wants to play brits and no one wants to play opposition.

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