Profile of EtherealDragon

Brace should be addressed and maybe part of that is reducing flame damage against emplacements but removing brace and maybe forcing some emplacements to be garrisoned to be useful. Don't know, that is something that I need more time to think about.

What if you had to have a Garrisoned Unit in order to have a full effect Brace on multiple emplacements (either Strength or Duration) - this cuts down on Sim City cheese because you need to actually build other units to fullly utilize Brace and adds an actual element of Micro to Sim Cities.

Eh, it's not terrible almost every map is designed with some sense of symmetry involved so it's almost always fair.

1. South church on Arnhem. ( There is a large building with several windows on north side)
2. North wooden house on Kholod Ferma. (wooden house by munitions in south)
3. Lost Glider in general. Full health stone houses, impossible to destroy middle church.(Church is central, each side has a similar building by cut-off and fuel)
4. Semiosky Summer in general, (agree, along with most Urban maps, but Vetos exist for a reason and if you get rekt so hard then you should have doctinal flamers in your loadout)

Furthermore if you know a building is important then you should rush for it and claim it early - if your opponent is going for it then respond similarly - if you lose an important garrison then it's just being outplayed.

The ONE exception I'll say is Team Games on certain maps with Soviet teams who will Cheese it up with Urban Defense (I'm looking at you Dusseldorf Church) Forward HQ on Stone Churches is just cancer. Honestly I think all faction engineers should have a demolish garrison ability for tactical garrison denial (especially when facing Infiltration Spam)

What about a "Suppressing Fire" ability: something that increases the received suppression of a targeted squad - 30 Munitions or so to increase received suppression by X% - allows you pin a troublesome squad quickly for a cost. Doesn't really support Maxim spam since its gated by Munitions and doesn't make Maxims OP because its a single targeted squad as opposed to a raw stat increase.

maybe..but which other faction can faust after 2min?? or shot molotovs after 2min??

Um, Pretty much all of them? OST only needs 25 Muni and a Grenadier, OKW only needs to have a Truck Called onto a field and Munitions (15 Fuel), USF only needs Vet 1 (harder, but if you force engagements you get it soon enough). If anything Soviets have it the worst because theirs A) Costs the Most Fuel B) Isn't part of your normal tech Progression.

On topic - sometimes its better to just ignore a HMG garrison at the start of the game and focus on capping other parts of the map/ going for their cut-off until you get your first truck set up and a proper counter.

I messed around with the Mod last night (just against AI, so can't really speak to balance per se but just to get a feel for the new units). First Impressions

Maxim - Feels pretty good, you definitely can't A-move around anymore, even against derpy AI. Increased Arc means you can properly cover strategic points (Arc size was always part of the reason why you had to A-move to get the most out of Maxims IMO). Higher Burst length was noticeable - even with the same DPS it felt like you dropped models more often giving a sort of damage buff placebo. 30% Suppression nerf was "okay", it's a fair tradeoff for arc increase... I might just be sad haha (Curious as to how suppression compares to other HMGs now for reference)

Sherman M4C - Wow, this felt like a little bit of overkill. I realize you want to nerf the ability the flood the field with call-in armor but I feel like something closer to 1:30-1:45 is much more reasonable. (Is there a reason why you aren't just tying it to Tech? It's statistically pretty similar to T34/85?)

Cromwell - I really like the turret traverse increase - it further emphasizes the Cromwell as a speedy flanker without all the extra bells and whistles it currently has. Moving accuracy seems to equalize medium tank duels. A side-by-side comparison with PZ4 stats might help the conversation some here.

Land Mattress - The Weapon Targeting seems kind of harsh to me - the reduced mobility was already a downside of the LM and now it seems like you get even more punished by Vehicles by losing the weapon entirely. I'd rather see just a lethality reduction first before piling on that nerf as well.

The rest is pretty non-controversial for me, I don't quite understand the Comet Pop Cap increase in light of its other nerfs compared to Panther which also has 16 Pop Cap... but I don't really see 4 more Cap hurting the unit all that much as its still really really good.