Profile of Angrade (Ægion)

Today I want to talk about the Mechanized Grenadier Group and how it is an underrated ability. Yes, it can be quite good. The main thing is the 250 half track in which every one believes is it a undesired unit. First off lets look at it stats and compare them to the M3 scout car and the 222.

250
HP: 240
Armor: 11

222
HP: 320
Armor: 9

M3 Scout (Soviet)/M3 halftrack (USF) {same values}
HP: 200
Armor: 5.4



Now if we take the this formula to find effective health. Since we will be talking about small arms, penetration will be one.
Health/(Penetration/Armor)

Effective Health
250: 2640
222: 2880
M3: 1080

This ultimately means the 250 halftrack is a 2640 health Grenadier, that can also kite. This means you can stay at the max range where Grenadiers still do well. Since this ability only comes in one doctrine, German Mechanized Doctrine, it also has access to spotting scopes to help spot threats such as infantry held AT and AT guns. If your opponent is blobbing, hit them hard. They will have trouble in fielding AT guns. Force them to pay for reinforcing.

Now, if we load in a flamer pioneer, it puts the M3 Clown Car to shame for clearing garrisons. Alternatively loading up a minesweeper still works for quick/deep sweeping. When vs MGs, they do have a greater penetration so be careful. Additionally, Allied mines are weaker so they will not one shot the 250 allowing the Pios able to repair. (Quicker than a 222 since it has less health.)

Dshk: 1.5/3/4.5
Maxium 1.2/1.4/1.6
M2HB 5/6/7 (be careful)
Vickers 1.3/1.6/1.9

While still having less effective health than a 222 this group posses more anti infantry damage. I found this ability quite effective when your opponent is blobing. If they get PTRS, Bazookas, or Piat blob in retaliation then unload your Grens the 250 can still be a spotter for the Left 18 Howitzer as well in general. Additionally, forcing your opponent to get AT held weapons means your Grenadiers will have a better time fighting against poorly equipped units.

The Mechanized Assault Panzergrenadier variant I would say is weaker. The must be in closer to fight making it harder to fight snares as well enemy rifle rate of fire would increase. Swap them for Flamer Pios and hit the flanks I say.

Cons:
-3 Command points
-Weak to AT
-Cost 500/30 so getting your Pak 40 out will be harder. However, with LMGs already come on your squad then it spares up your valuable early Munitions for Tellermines. Additionally, Grenadiers themselves do not take much damage anyways to you can also stall your Med Bunker for making use of that munitions for more mines.


Also for a quick QoL fix of all garrison-able vehicles. Do you think we could make the 250/251/M3 and etc could enable to capture points when garrisoned? This can allow for better queue moving for a mass capture.

I was wondering if it was at all possible to use the hip-fire animations from brens, MG34/42, etc on a DP-28. I want to make a fire on the move DP but it just doesn't look satisfying at all seeing them fire the DP as a normal rifle from the shoulder.

I tried copying the anim_table tags from the other LMGs and kept the visibility_name as lmg_dp_28_visible as it was originally, but in game, the soldier holding it T-poses when standing still and appears unarmed when moving. I've tried switching from completeMotionTree to newMotionTree in the soldier abps, but the results are the same. Is there any way around this?

I know they have the animation for if you give them a M34 they will do it, so it maybe tailored to the weapon itself but I am not sure. When I look in the World Builder, there is only a slot for Rifle_State

Ok, how about we talk about Ostheer's German Infantry Doctrine, Jaeger Infantry Doctrine, and the Blitzkrieg Doctrine.

Jaeger Infantry
This doctrine to me feels like camouflaging infantry and ambush. However, it has two late game munition sinks in already a heavy munitions based doctrine. Proposel is to change the CAS to a Jaeger Light Infantry, very similar to the OKW. (affected by stormtooper bulletin)

German Infantry
In comparison, Jaeger Infantry is camouflage while German Infantry should be focused on open combat. Here is my possible replacement.

-0 CP: Assault Grenadiers (Assault Pios in my mod)
-0 CP: Sprint
-1 CP: Artillery Officer
-2 CP: Model 24 Stun Grenades
-4 CP: Smoke Bombs (Airstrike)

Idea behind this is an alternate T1. Assault Grens/Pios can fill the role of standard Grens. The Officer can increase their damage, call in smoke, and later coordinate fire for Pwefers. The smoke bombs airstrike will allow a global smoke option so the player is not limited to the Officer. Assault Grens and my Assault Pio are still on the weaker side of thing but the Stun Grenade ability should help them level that out.

Blitzkrieg
Gotta go fast! This is what the doctrine to me sounds like. Historically this meant with Vehicles so this should be focused on fast and aggressive vehicles. This one I am not too sure on how to adjust but here is my idea.

-0 CP: Assault Pios (with the extra model, vehicle repairs would increase)
-0 CP: Panzer 4 F1 (Buildable Short Barrel P4s in T3)
-4 CP: Fast March
-9 CP: Vehicle Breakthrough
-9 CP: Command Panzer 4 (I could make it a Command Panther, there are speech codes for that)

shock troops with ourah will be broken...So will be Penal with sticky satchel charges.

Their counter part, sprinting Pgrens, Snipers, and other things were not considered op. With shock troops, I could perhaps omit them but when it came to with For Mother Russia what made it op was the additional armor they gained. Conscript with AT grenade pretty much does the same thing a penal with a stick satchel and do not remember it being op before when they and sprint and satchel. Though if it does become problematic, I could set them on the same cooldown?

As I said, i'm not against toning down aoe and/or increase price for some utility, but making the shell "a brummbar copy" is nonsense, it could fire a shell THREE times heavier than brummbar.

That is what I did with the AVRE, and the Sturmtiger is completely replaced with the Brummbar.

Anyways the AVRE rework is more of a buff than a nerf. The AVRE now has immense field presence and will actually kill more infantry while being more fair to play against.

For the Sturmtiger, how would you rework it so it would not be squad wiping machine. Give exact stat changes. When it come to fighting vehicles, people do not like two shooting Elephants and Jagtigers while the Sturmtiger can kill in one? Multiple in one?