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Jump back to quoted post9 Apr 2018, 05:01 AMTheGentlemenTroll

IMO all snipers should not get the bonus RA on retreat, it makes snipers survive flanks which should easily kill it too often. This would also prevent those annoying long retreats with a 222 or other LV just not hitting it ever.

Jump back to quoted post2 Apr 2018, 21:19 PMthomasagray

Where or how can I suggest more changes in the upcoming balance patch?

My balance ideas:
1. Caches cost 200 manpower if there are no other owned caches on the map, else, 250 manpower (middle ground between pre and post patch).
2. USF M5A1 Halftrack cost reduced to 270 manpower and 30 fuel.
3. Katyusha, Panzerwerfer, and Walking Stuka health increased to 240.
4. Sturmpioneers no longer get access to panzerchreck upgrade until any HQ is set up (December change reverted).
5. ISU-152 awareness ability is replaced with forward sight focus, available at veterancy 1.
6. M36 Jackson health decreased to 560 but cost decreased to 380 manpower and 130 fuel (middle ground between pre and post patch). The unit returns to anti-armor support role but isn't as fragile as before.
7. All Churchill variants receive a bonus to repair rate from engineers or abilities to compensate for their high hp.
8. Ostheer Panzer IV Medium Tank fuel cost increased to 125 (December change reverted).
9. Kubelwagens now take extra damage from mines so one soviet mine or its counterparts can now one shot them.
10. USF Riflemen can now lay sandbags at all times, defensive operations ability no longer required. Instead, for defensive operations, rear echelon troops can help riflemen build fighting positions more quickly.
11. Soviet Penal Battalions can either equip themselves with 2x anti-tank rifles or one flamethrower. Both upgrades are mutually exclusive. The flamethrower upgrade requires either a support weapons kampaneya or a tankoviy battalion command.
12. M26 Pershing gains self-repair ability at veterancy 1 (replaces improved acceleration). This ability costs 60 munitions but slowly repairs the heavy tank over 15 seconds, disabling its weapons (but not movement) during the process. Resembles that self-repair ability the T-70 light tank it used to have. This is to compensate for the Pershing's lack of disembarkable crew.
Other ideas:
Change in information:
Sturmpioneers: Effective at close range. (added before other info)
Churchill: Effective against all targets. Weak vs. heavy tanks.
Kubelwagen: Fast and good at capturing territory. Weak armor.
Panzer II Luchs Light Tank: Effective against infantry and light vehicles. Weak vs. Tanks.
Comet Tank: Effective against infantry and armor. Weak vs. Anti-Tank guns.
Cromwell: Effective against all targets. Weak vs. Anti-Tank, assault guns.

AI changes:
British Infantry sections may construct caches on owned territory points.
OKW Volksgrenadiers may use incendiary grenades on clustered infantry or infantry in trenches or structures.
Ostheer Grenadiers may use rifle grenades against infantry in trenches or structures.
OKW Obersoldaten and Jaeger Light Infantry may booby trap owned territory points when not in combat.

Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2018, 15:01 PMEsxile

I don't really understand you point of comparison, USF early choice is based on fuel: ambu or T1 or T2 or rack unlock, not on munition. You can't really compare Ostheer and USF on this point.

On topic: if we agree that Ostheer mortar is OP, then yes USF HT mortar and Ostheer HT mortar are OP as well. The problem here with the USF HT mortar is about a pure cheese strategy and counter cheese knowledge, if you don't know how to counter it, you'll be in trouble be if you do, that's basically a waste of fuel for the USF player.

Now let's be honest. What strategy is the most popular for Ostheer players on teamgame, I can see two and one rely on heavy usage of HMG42s and Mortars, especially when facing dual USF. When as USF I see two HMG42 and two Mortar for each Ostheer players, well I'm sorry but I push my Infantry commander button and call 2 mortar HTs to counter this shit. What do you think I'm suppose to do since RM don't have smoke anymore? Call an outranged mortar of my own only to deal smoke a one location when I need at least 3 smoke to be able to do something? And on the mean time I try to flank I lost 50% of my squads by lucky random Gw34 mortar hits? Or maybe build 3 RE squad that can't do shit without an weapon, weapon I can't buy if I spend my munition on smoke...
I didn't watch your replay but I could post my last 2vs2 game USF/USF vs Ostheer/Ostheer, an ugly mortar spam game yes it was, but without those half-track that would have been a one-side match.

Now you want to know how to counter USF HT mortar, it is easy build less mortar of your own and more... 222. 222 counter USF HT mortars like hell, build 2 or 3 and rush them with a sweeper close enough to detect mines. 2 or 3 HT mortars also mean less infantry on the field and one or two HMG.50 aren't going to stop you.

You have to be realistic, the problem is definitively not the USF mortar HT but mortars, all of them.