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Just tested it in CheatMod. Turns out they do. Interesting.



Tested this one too. The M6 mine immobilised the Brummbar, Panther and both Tigers.

They take a little time to slow to a halt though.

I just tested this. You're right, it did immobilize the heavy tanks. Was this changed at some point? I tested it several years ago and thought I remember it only slowing the heavy tanks.

If you really struggle against howitzers you have picked doctrines too fast lacking a reconnaissance tool (alternatively: no USF equals no major reconnaissance; I see USF is not an option if your whole team is Soviets though) and a precision artillery strike. Furthermore you are not relocating your units fast enough to turn the howitzer into an inappropriate investment.

Especially if we talk about 3v3/4v4 there should be enough players to reserve someone for picking howitzer counter tools (for example: Soviet Combined Arms Army).

All this is true when playing with an arranged team. When playing with random, it's really difficult to get the coordination required to take down multiple howitzers. Soviet Combined Arms runs out of munitions too fast to be an effective counter if you have to recon and bomb by yourself. I'm not sure there's a good answer to that problem because if you made the doctrine more efficient, then it would be awful to face when playing against an arranged team.

Hi all, thank you all for you're positive contribution to this post.
........ I hope i can make a small contribution to you're case. But to be honest, i think my post will not have any effect on people who are stuck in their micro world and not able to see the bigger picture.

Try the Wikinger (sp?) mod from the Workshop. You need to subscribe to both the Mod and the Win Condition to get it to work right. It's a lot of fun and you'll have no complaints about lethality. It's also great for really large PVE battles because you can select the pop cap that you want.

I tried out Mech Company some more and I got 4 points to make:

1. The WC51 really loses effectiveness as the match progresses but I still don't think it's worth to even withdraw it to get resources back, especially after you've upgraded it with the .50 cal.

It's 155mm barrage ability has a shorter range even than that of the Major, for whatever reason, and I found myself more often than not kamikatzing it in order to get a barrage off and I lost it 1-2 times out of 3.

What I suggest is giving it another upgrade, weapons carrier, allowing it to drop BARs and Bazookas or the other alternative, "locking" it down, like the Ambulance/Opel Blitz truck, deploying some mini weapon racks so your units can arm in the field, to give it more utility and use after the mid game passes.

Another thing I really liked that someone else mentioned was it capping without any upgrades.

2. Cav Rifles - I suggest making them 300 manpower but them coming with M3 Grease Guns by default and being able to upgrade with M1 Thompsons similar to the Rangers.

The idea is cutting down a bit on the manpower cost since as someone again already mentioned it, the commander is quiet manpower intensive.

3. The M3 Halftrack's med kit drop ability is somehow bugged, for me it wouldn't deploy the med bags anywhere else other than directly under it for some reason, which was a problem since I had to move it each time in order to grab them, I don't remember it doing this before, not sure if the range of the ability was reduced or something.

4. I suppose that replacing the Reserve Armor with the M10 would probably be an option provided that Cav Rifles become a solely AI unit, the M10 will provide them with the needed AT, especially if Combined Arms is made a passive for Cav Rifles, then a slot would be freed up for something else.

I really thought about it and shuffling around the tank call-ins for the USF would make some sense provided that they fit in with the commander and are balanced.

Currently the 76mm Sherman is overperforming due to Combined Arms.

Vipper makes the point that Armor provides both strong AI and AT options with the 105mm Sherman and M10 in Armor.

Another person suggested replacing the E8 in Rifle Company with the 105 Sherman.

I would go a step further and giving Armor the M26 Pershing if the M10 and 105 Sherman are moved to other commanders.

What I imagine is this:

Rifle Company - 105mm Sherman instead of E8. The 105 Sherman is an infantry support tank and would provide the Rifles with cover with their barricades.

Mech Company - M10s instead of Reserve Armor. Would provide Cav Rifles with the needed AT support if they become a dedicated AI unit, especially with Combined Arms (active or passive).

Armor Company - M26 Pershing instead of M10 Sherman and Reserve Armor instead of 105 Sherman, the commander would retain access to bulldozers.

Heavy Cav - E8 instead of M26 Pershing, would help out with Combined Arms, having Rangers as well would probably be a problem tho.

Just for the record, this is a big IF scenario I thought of based on my own experience together with what I've read on here from other people.

I like the suggestions but think that Relic would think this too much of a scope change. It would make several marginal commanders better.

USF Armor Company

Thanks for putting HE on M10. I've only tried it on a comp-stomp so would like to try it in an actual game before making too many comments on it. From the comp-stomps, it looks like you limited the damage to 40 hit points/model and tried to make it not kill any models, so it is like a stun grenade minus the stun. Against armor, it seems to just block vision which is an okay compromise. Having it stun armor could be really bad because 3 M10's could swarm just about anything if they had stun. It would still be good to give the M10 better vision, which was the entire point of having an open-top turret, and possibly a pintle MG.

The Assault Engineer's 5th man doesn't help that much because by they time they get the 5th man, the amount of indirect fire makes all USF infantry squishy. It's still 280 mp for a unit that performs much more similar to the Ost 200mp engineer than the 300 mp Sturmpio. To make them usable, you'd either have to give them a buff to RA or lower their price to around 220-230 and lower reinforce cost. I think it would be better to lower the price. If you buffed their RA, then they would likely roll over OST in the early game.