Profile of Angrade (Ægion)

There are more than two that need fixing...

Edit : I was not sure what should be a good doctrine to adjust for Ostheer but here is what I think
German Mechanized
1. The 250 Grenadier Halftrack (perhaps the panzergrenadier as well)
It can be quite potent but in the current state is expensive.
-Change it to a lone 250 Halftrack call in.
-Cost 150 manpowerish and 10 fuel
-CP to 0-1
-armor should be brought down to M3/WC 51 levels
-able to garrison mortars?

2. Lefh 18
I notice the manpower and fuel adjustment was not brought back from the FBP
This way the Lefh 18 can be adjusted for all doctrines.

3. Command Panzer 4
Let me throw this idea out. Why not make it into a OKW variant instead of a short barreled variant?


Encirclement
I have ideas and implemented in my mod but primary I would say the Stormtroopers need some price adjustments.
Additionally, perhaps removing the light mortar barrages to frontline sectors in Close the Pocket to prevent players on wasting their munitions when nothing is cut off.


OKW
A lot of these doctrine needs one or two abilities changed.

Special Operations
1. Radio Silent
-Renamed to Silent Operations
-30 second duration
-Minimap Icons Removed
-Infantry Units will move at an increased pace and will be clocked for the duration.

2. Infiltration grenades price increased to 30


Firestorm Doctrine
1. Replace the Thorough Salvage with an Opel Blitz Call in
-Thorough Salvage is a double edge sword ability because it takes longer, and with the lack of cashes, an opel blitz call in could be good alternative.
2. Replace the Recoup Losses with a GrW 34 call in with access to incendiary barrages
3. Hetzer needs a damage buff to equal the KV-8
4. Change the Rocket Barrage to a JU Incendiary Bombing

BURN BURN BURN



USF:
Recon Support
1. Forward Observers and Riflemen Flares should be merged
2. IR Pathfinders
-2 man sniper equal to the Soviets Scout Sniper
-Calls in Major Arty
-Major Arty has a Global Cooldown
-400 Manpower

3. Greyhound
-Damage increased from 60 to 80
-Comes upgraded with armored skirts
-Vet one ability replaced with a scan Observation mode

4. Recon Strafe, becomes a Loiter Variant
5. Paradrop Air Combat Group to regular paratroopers

Mechanized
1. WC 51
-reduce the fuel cost from 20 to 10
-make it start on cooldown
-60 to 90 second cooldown

2. Change the M3 Halftrack to a Greyhound Call in
3. Change the Recon sweep to Combine Arms

(with the half-track being changed to Greyhound it could be renamed to Motorized Company)

UKF
Advance Emplacement
1. Repair Engineers can no longer repair in combat
2. Replace the Precision Barrage with a 25 pounder artillery pit. If they are going to have an artillery ability to counter the counter might as well let them play the same game as everyone

Tactical Support Regiment
1. Command Vehicle is right now a gimmicky ability. Minimized its affects but do not gimp the vehicle itself.
2. Salvage Engineers
-One engineer call in
-250ish manpower
-does not automatically come with minesweeper so people can choose it they want it for combat or make in unique and able to put the sweeper away like the OKW Sturmpio.
-2 cp
3. Air Resupply
-change from a sector target ability to a free target ability
-no longer must target the front line sector.
4. Forward Observation post
Needs changed or reworked it is expensive and has a lack of targets. By the time someone uses this ability, the field already has garrisons destroyed, garrison destroying units and want to use the fuel to field tanks.

I think I said of good way to rework the Close Air Support Commander and Luftwaffe Supply Doctrine.

Luftwaffe Officer
-Abilities change from Close Air Support Commander and Luftwaffe Supply Doctrine
-Abilities share cooldown with their counterpart
-Doctrinal abilities recon ability replace the officer call in

Officer Variations

-Recon Pass
Improves with veterancy
can be come a loiter

-Supply Drop Zone
Not Tailored to a strategic point

-Anti infantry strafe
one aircraft loiter

-Anti Tank Strafe
one aircraft loiter, will need to be careful on preformace

-Stuka Dive bomb
Strategic bombing? like the commandos doctrine
or to like a bombing loiter like Overwatch

-Incendiary bombing run
Loiter like overwatch


This is just a brief idea, I have to leave soon so I can make replies once I come back.

Here are some alternative ideas for some various doctrines.

Soviet Industry
Replace Allied Air Drop to Engineer Salvage Kits
Replace Vehicle Crew Repair Training with Soviet War Machine

Soviet war Machine
-120 second time ability
- up to two/three lost tanks/assault guns will be replaced with Green T34/76s (similar to rapid conscription)
-200 munition cost

Green T34/76
-Max health 400 making it either a 3 shot kill or a 2 shot and snare kill.
-increased target size by 2
-unable to vet
-skin locked to default green skin.
-still have access to ramming
(in order of the Green T34 to look different then regular, the regular T34s should have the Hulls extras on.)


NKVD Rifle Disruption Tactics
I know have been talking about this doctrine a lot, in which we all agree it needs reworked. It should be around harassing or Disrupting the opponent. Additionlly having a third doctrine with partisans would make the bulletins more appealing.

-0 CP: Radio Intercept
-2 CP: Hit the Dirt
-2 CP: Partisans (the Disruption unit)
-6 CP: Fear Propaganda
-9? CP: Scorched Earth
60 Second Overwatch action that calls in Mortar Barrages (Incendiary?) in friendly territory

Soviet Shock Army
As stated before, too many overlapping abilities.

-2 CP: Shock Troops
-2 CP: 120mm Mortar
-6 CP: Fire and Manuver
-time ability
-vehicle increase accuracy and perhaps able to cap?
-12 CP: IL-2 Loiter
-14 CP: KV2


The Doctrines Terror Tactics, Anti-Infantry Tactics, and Shock Rifle Frontline Tactics has Three overlapping abilities making them too similar so a small rework should be in order.

Shock Rifle Frontline Tactics
-Shocks
-AT gun Ambush
-Incendiary Artillery Barrage
-KV8
-IS2

Anti-Infantry Tactics
-Shocks
-recon overflight
-fear propganda
-Incendiary Artillery Barrage
-KV8

Terror Tactics
-Shocks
-fear propganda
-Ml-20
-KV8
-IL-2 Bombing Strike

Here is how I would change the doctrines so their would be less overlapping abilites

Anti-Infantry Tactics
2 CP: Machine Gun Nests
-100 Munitions? With a Dshk in the doctrine making this cost munitions would not deplete the manpower for unit call ins
2 CP: Dshk 38 HMG
4 CP: Recon Overflight
7 CP: Incendiary Barrage
8 CP: KV-1

This doctrine would be transformed from a support-ish to a more defensive doctrine. Since this doctrine was in the middle of the other two in likeness, changing it would be Ideal. While the other two do have two same ability and one like ability, this should be fine. Though we can always change Terror Tactic's Shocks into Assault Guards?


Speaking of similar doctrines, Guard Rifle Combined Arms Tactics and Soviet Combined Arms Army. Even half of their name is the same. They two same ability and one like ability in the form of the airstrike. With Guard Rifle, they do have synergies, Guards with long range and Conscripts with PPSHs is close range. So I will focus on the other doctrine.

Soviet Combined Arms Army
-1 CP: Forward Observation Post
An Alternative "Cashe" to be built on a point to provide more vision like an observation post point.
75 munitions
-3 CP: Assault Guards
-5 CP: Anti Tank Gun Ambush Tactics
-8 CP: ML-20
-12 CP: Il-2 Bomb Strike

I think we are going about the Soviet Doctrine all wrong. There are simply a lack of unique and powerful abilities. Here is a video of unused doctrinal abilities. I will give a quick summery what it could be in the game.

Soviets start at 2:09


1. Scorched Earth
-Frontline Overwatch ability that drops 120mm mortars on advancing enemies.

2. Hold the Line
-Infantry will gain combat bonuses in friendly territory for a time.

3. No Retreat, no surrender
-too similar to hold the line and too gimmicky.

4. Manpowerblitz
-would promote too much blobing, not a good idea

5. Red Banner t34/85s
I have actually done something with this in the past
-One time call in of two T34/85s
-Skin locked to the Red Banner colors.
-Since it is a one time call in, they could revive a small discount in comparison to building t34/85s

6. Sector Air Cover
would be too similar to the IL2 loiter. (it maybe it because I can not remember the voice line to it.)

7. Machine gun nests
-do I need to explain this one?

8. Fire and Manuver
-time ability
-vehicle increase accuracy and perhaps able to cap?

9. Forward Observation posts
-Either a free standing watch tower (owned)
-Or a alternative Cashe for vision instead of a munition or fuel

10. Green T34/76, Soviet war Machine
I have a unique idea that combines theses voices lines
-Time ability
- up to two/three lost tanks/assault guns will be replaced with Green T34/76s (similar to rapid conscription)

Green T34/76
Max health 400 making it either a 3 shot kill or a 2 shot and snare kill.
increased target size by 2
unable to vet
skin locked to default green skin.
still have access to ramming

11. Evasion tactics
infantry unit may Oorah sprint for 5 seconds (like the Ostheer sprint)

I generally agree that the unit is underutilised for its performance, but I would not go as far as comparing it to "2640 hp grenadier". That is for a number of reasons:
1. Units shooting out of vehicles have only half the chance to hit.
2. All small arms are going to hit the vehicle with probability of 1, while it is not as easy to hit grenadier, especially in cover.
3. There is also rear armour of 5.5 which is much less and you are going to often show it, especially with pios inside.
4. You cant use all the great abilities grens have, this includes not only nades but also for example retreat.
5. Last but not least, grens are resistant to any type of AT, while the ht is going to get heavy damage from it.

Generally, IMO, it is much easier to lose the HT than to lose a squad of grens.

1. The half accuracy when garrison in a vehicle is not true. If the vehicle is stationary the units inside are still have full accearcy, they still recive moving penalties if the vehicle is moving, yet the LMG can still fire but with its own moving penalties. With the doctrine it in, not moving is fine with its spotting scopes.

2. Since the halftrack are targetable, units are more like going to target it rather than Gren squad itself.

3. It call reverse moving and not showing your rear, anyways 5.5 rear armor is quite high, higher than the frontal armor than the Kubel/WC 51/M3 Scout.

4. Why waste munitions on standard squad if it really can not touch your grens, or why waste munitions on a HMG that can now easily flank? For retreating, you can reverse move out or know your limits. You can always hop your grens out.

5. Spoting scopes will allow you not to drive into at guns, and you can always hop your grens out.