Profile of Angrade (Ægion)

No, because its a complete overhaul of the game that could have beyond catastrophic effect on the game.
It doesn't take a lot to understand that.

If you like it, sub and play it, but there is a higher chance that your grandkids will live on Mars then this getting in game.

Sure some of this is significant such as the tank health/armor, but many changes really quite small. Some of the big changes have been needed for a long time such as Hammer/Anvil and AEC/Bofors.

UKF
They need a mobile mortar and some form of non-doc late game arty.
The mortar emplacement is no substitute.
They lack early effective infantry support. A non doctrinal M3 is a good fit. While a doctrinal M8 would fit better for UKF than USF
Also, I am against t0 HMGs

OKW
Their Non-doctrinal support and teching has always been held back by the King Tiger. Any adjustments to teching adjusts the king tiger. By moving the King Tiger to doctrines it help releases the burdens and allow more access items and keep some core units as HQs are knocked out. A panther's, volk's, and MG43's role is singular.

USF
The biggest changes where to this faction. A faction should not be limited to basic items such as AT guns hence why I changes the teching to liner. A less drastic change would probably move the AT gun to T0 but require an 'officer' upgrade as well as the mortar. The basic platforms of AT, Indirect, and suppression (fighting position) would be available. Bazooka are not really a replacement for AT.

Ostheer
The teching changes here are mostly timing changes and removing most redundant steps, even with the changes with T2. Ostheer suffers in the initial game. Osttruppen and Assault Grens only have value because of the weak pioneers and no t0 grens. For when most games generally reach all stages, all factions generally have to be able to fight in all stages.

Soviets
Generally well rounded except with t1. This is why my changes are focused here. The change initial units first came about not for early game balance but as in regard to de-promote maxim spam then into any early HMG spam. Maxim spam arrives latter if there is no starting engineer, an indirect nerf to maxim spam.

General
Vehicle abandonment. Should a player be rewarded or punished for simply playing the game as intended? No. This is the same for main gun destroyed and dropped slot items.
Forward retreat points should be available to all to reduce map dependency and increase potential map pool.
Snipers, I have said my peace about them, but in general: They offer no strategic depth to the game. They focus what they can do and not what they can offer.


These are some of the core issues and generally the core of this mod. Everything else generally minor and/or experimental.

1) For some reason, I get a free partisan squad at the start of the match. Is this intended? I thought we were supposed to get a conscript squad as soviets.

Bulletin can change starting units. Looks like you had a partisan bulletin equiped.

Penals
Combat engineers
Partisans
Stormtroopers
Pioneers
Osttruppen
Assault Engines
Rear Echelon
LT
Royal Engineers
UKF officers

Stormtroopers may be a bit too much, but this can help make other bulletins more attractive and to allow more customization starts.

2. The current itereation of partisans in your mod is very powerful. While they are now 260 manpower, they can hold their own against greens even without the upgrade. At CP1, I think a unit like that comes very darn early for so much impact. I'll add points below in regards to what other effects that give it so much impact.

2a. They have a lot of utility now, and the upped performance I would even wager they could end up replacing cons. Grenade, Molotov, AT made, landmines, camouflage, AT/Assault Package. It's a unit that can take up a lot of different roles. The only thing I noticed as a balancer at the moment is how expensive the upgrade packages are, and partisans tactics is already fairly ammo heavy without that purchase.

Their design is suppose to be very adaptable. While they might compete with conscripts, the 7 man squad upgrade is superior than the partisan un-upgrades. Penals are still generally better as well. While they are better vs unupgraded grens, grens with LMG 42s are superior. I think the munitions cost is generally fine right now. The SMGs and AT rifles are suppose to be side-grades rather than upgrades for it changes their role. A stock they do well, the player has a choice when to use the upgrades and unlike the Gren's lmgs, they are not mandatory. The 1CP probably does come out too early and if the cost is too low, 270 seems right.

2b. Those triple AT rifles are very deadly against light armor (two volleys for a scout car). And since they pop up at CP1, that means players will have to kiss light vehicle rush goodbye. They could try, but you'd be going against camoed AT units that can plant mines, snare and have high damage output on light armor. Yes, the package is expensive, but the fact it's there is nonetheless a lot of freedom.

The 221 has a base health of 240, the 222 upgrade and 223 upgrade increases its health to 320. When upgraded it will take three volleys. Three AT rifles are necessary now with the higher tank health in general.

1) I felt that the Ostheer start would be somewhat feeble as without the investment into a T1 right away, the lack of MG will mean you will have to rely on your mix of pioneers and grens.

The MG is slow and cumbersome in comparison with grens. Swapping them helps with then initial map control and improve's their early game. They should be able to keep pace better at this stage.

1a) Those pios are pretty great though, it feels like base game anti-infantry partisans in terms of damage. I feel like maybe pioneer spam is back on the menu!

'Those Americans always complain about pioneer spam.' Additionally, they can not do frontal assaults, which is good.

2) With the fluidity in teching, I felt so much more liberated in options! It's quite refreshing compared to the current form of Ostheer. That said, I am somewhat worried about how easy it is to get double pumas out with the current economy of the patch. 2 pumas still outdo a medium tank given their advantage in range and speed, plus the vet bonus is nothing to laugh at.

Pumas will take 2 addition pens to kill a medium but the armor has been reduced. The interaction maybe the same, just more often. However, tank destroyers will two shot them. They maybe more fragile now.

2b) Maybe nerf the puma MG? That way it will be fine if there's two of them on the field at the same time since they can't threaten infantry in any feasible way.

The puma MG is the same as live and I have always viewed at ok-ish for the unit.

4) There's a problem with the camo upgrade atm. Storm troopers for example don't get hold fire, so even if I buy them camo it doesn't help if they can't properly ambush.

Oops.
And fixed. Now when the squad is upgraded with camo, they have hold fire. The ability was attached to the squad upgrade and not to the player upgrade. Though interestingly enough apparently the ability requires the player not have a 'hull down' doctrinal for some odd reason. Theater of war?

I will try that. Thing is I've seen it work fine in the all units mod, so there be must something else I'm missing.

You will probably going to contact SneakEyes

https://www.coh2.org/user/20401/sneakeye#here

Playing passive means picking the right engagements; Falling back and not giving many options for sniping, while preparing a counter .

Espepecially in larger team games snipers are less of a "problem" to deal with.

In higher matchup (rank 300 upwards), even randoms can communicate and deal with problems together. Calling teamgames focused 1 on 1 indicates, that your skill on this level seems not to be very high. Focusing down enemy lines with teammates is way more reliable.

Btw. i hunt snipers with kubels, since they deal quit an amount of damage.

Waiting wiith your sniepr is the fun part, since you hbave to sneak him into a forward postion. Good players tend to keep themway behind own lines, therefor you have to outsmart him.

A light jäger squad would be nothing more than grens jli a.s.o and would rly remove one layer of the game thanks to a l2p issue without granting extra content to the game.

As I said, it is far from a learn to play issue.

On the subject of the flak gun, how do I get the gunners to animate properly?

My mod uses the old pre-upgrade flak; it's set up and works correctly (shoots at air and ground units as soon as the truck is set up) but the gunners do not animate correctly - they're kind of stood up through the truck model, rather than sitting on the flak gun seats.

Is there a way to fix this without making the flak gun a separate upgrade? I really don't want to have to do that, and although only a visual quirk it is an annoyance I'd like to fix.

I did try making the gunners not be added to the truck until the truck has finished constructing (through an on_build_completion action) but it didn't fix it.

Double check the crew ext. Also the default the crew are armies\german\soldiers\vehicle_crew\vehicle_crew
Ensure your abp files are correct. Not sure if you are using old files or not.