Profile of Angrade (Ægion)

Here something I would like to changed a bit, it is a bit off topic. I would like to see a disable capture on Infiltration units. This would help these units sneak around the field since the capture zone can take up large portions of the map for these units to move. It would help partisans to sneakly lay mines while stormtroopers can help lay and wait for Close the Pocket.

In one of my mods I called it Shh....We are sneaking.

Is it possible to turn the Stuka Half-track into a 250 MP/30 FU open-topped 251 Half-track, which then required a 140MP/70FU upgrade to be a Stuka once again? This way, OKW will have access to a mobile reinforcement platform (Which, in my opinion, is needed to all faction non-doctrinally), the open-topped part (Allow troops to fire out, similar to the M5) could be a nice touch for those who doesn't want the OKW one to be exactly the same as the Wehrmacht one.

I have looked into this before. In terms of modding, I do not think it is not possible to hide the cages based on animators.

The reason why OKW and USF tend to spam/blob infantry is due to fact of inaccessibility of support weapons. The fuel delay cost of the M2B is 50 fuel and the MG 34 is at least 40 fuel with both being a huge amount of research time or deploy time. This is why four volks and riflemen is a very common opener because there are no other openers. Unless you save up the manpower for the weapon teams but that is huge investment and gamble. And when you do have access to these support weapons, you can not really afford them do the upkeep costs of the new weapons. Additionally, elite infantry have hard time to shine with these factions because they have to compete with their own standard infantry that is already out. Here are my suggestions for each faction.

USF

Split the Lieutenant building into 2 parts

Partially Activated 200 manpower, 30 fuel, ~30 research time.
-M2B HMG
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-M1 AT gun

-Mortar
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-M20 Utility Car
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-Rear Echelon Flamers?
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Fully Activated 200 manpower, 30 fuel, ? research time.
-Lieutenant
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-M15 AA Halftrack

-To add a third item M3 Halftrack?


Captain
The pack Howie in real life could have been used a direct fire piece also. This unit could be changed to a narrowed arch farther reaching AT gun. With it being 75mm, compared to the 57mm AT gun, it could also have a higher penetration rate allowing for stronger AT guns to help deal with higher armored opponents.
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With the M1 AT gun gone from the captain, he may need another item to round out his composition such as either an M3 halftrack or make the M10 non doctrinal with a bit of a rework to match the performance of a puma.


Assault Engineers
To allow other non-riflemen tactics change the target size from 1 to .91.

Pathfinders
To allow other non-riflemen tactics change the reinforcement costs from 37 to 30



OKW
First I would change the starting unit from the Sturmpioneer to a volks squad due to the over performing nature of the Sturmpioneer at this timing.

Next I would add three upgrades to the HQ.

Medics, 250 manpower (equal to the soviets) This will help reduce the must need for Battle Group HQ.

Initial Battlephase 200 manpower, 30 fuel, ~30 research time.
-this upgrade would unlock Raketenwerfer, MG 34, Panzerfausts, and SWS Halftracks
This will help reduce the very powerful HQ rushes that either instantly win or lose the game.

Infantry Weapons 200 Manpower, 20 fuel
-This will allow access to the various infantry upgrades. Volk's incendiary grenades and STG 44s. Sturm Pios Flamer, and Panzerscheck.

The Volks incendiary grenades poorly designed. It makes the squad no different than riflemen and penal flamers in the fact they can deny all cover. They are quick, have little time for response and in live are free with out additional teching. There are three options or a combination I can see to fix this.

1. Add a fuse. (This will allow time to dodge the grenade while still acting as a garrison clear.)
2. Remove initial damage
3. Increase wind up time.

Sturmpioneers
With Feuerstorm, they have 3 upgrades. Now with my suggestion of not intial unit, they are even more taxed.

-Minesweeper, in order to release pressure off this upgrade demos need a rework.
-Panzershreck, in order to release pressure off this upgrade I suggest on adding a PzB39 upgrade to Obers. (see below for more details.)

-Non-doctrinal flamer, this would actually increase pressure on the squad but would allow an alternive garrsion clear other than Liegs and incendiary grenades

The doctrinal flamer slot, I would replace it with a GrW Mortar team with access to munitions to incendiary rounds like the mortar halftrack. (1 Command point) (The is also a speech Code for this, so no longer of all generic voice lines.)

Raketenwerfer
Make the cloak Vet 1


Battlegroup HQ (Med HQ)
Now that medics are now available from T0 Battlegroup HQ needs something to make it more attractive.

-Forward retreat point and medics merge to one upgrade from the cost 250 manpower, 50 fuel.

-Lieg
Add a smoke barrage

-Flak Halftrack
due to the later timing I would change it health from 2 AT gun shots to 2 AT gun shots plus a snare in order to make it more resilient because it can even be damage by rifles.

-Move Obersoldaten
Their standard timing is too late in the game for them make a real impact
add a PzB39 AT rifle upgrade
3-4 AT rifles equal to guards but with higher accuracy so it does not remove too much anti infantry on a 400 manpower unit.


Mech HQ
Various fuel costs may need to be adjusted to match other timings with other factions.
-Add Opel Blitz
A good Alternative to Cashes

With this, I would remove non doctrinal salvage and replace the Thorough Salvage with the standard Salvage. In most situations Thorough Salvage is actually a problem because it takes longer.


With this additionally initial costs, The Panzer 4, and Panther could use a fuel cost decrease equal to Ostheer in order to match it's counterparts.