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I watch a lot of 1 vs 1 too. I do not remember when the last time I've seen USF using Mortar. It is just dump of preciuos resorces. Better to have more squads on the field to flank whermach everywhere and have better map control means resorces to yourself and less for opponent.

Btw (for 4 vs 4) vehicals in T1 cost 340MP (U20) and 350 (AA HT) like Pz4?

This is now going off-topic as this is heavily-tied to 1v1, and the long-term viability of tiers.

As long as USF gets free officers (which means an extra squad out when it really matters), and their vehicles are supposed to have good shock value (even stronger early game), their vehicles cannot be cheap. Having vehicles affordable for the late-game means that Lieutenant is no longer the "MG tier" and Captain is the "Low-risk" tier.

We tried to do this with all vehicles (e.g., M20 nerf-buffs) but only the Luchs changes managed to survive scope (M15 did get slightly bit cheaper).

Given how broken JU87 skillplanes are, I think you are playing with your luck if you don't have an AAHT out by the lategame.

Though, again, this is something that will have to be determined by 1v1 limitations alone. 4v4 will have to deal with the outcome of this. As long as the late-game is remotely balanced, there is always something to keep players in the match, and that's what matters the most.

Never heard that SOviet mortar was ever OP.

I think I would easily pick current USF mortar over Soviet mortar, especially if I only have 4-man weapon crews. USF mortar has shorter range, but better packup-setup (which requires micro to use).

Although there are some ideas are better than nothing. Relic has a different idea from us players
(Insatiable users of patches and patches).

I think it would be better to have a [Unofficial] balance patch, with all changues in a mod, maybe other time for commanders, but with a free scope. Obviously with time (I think we'll have plenty of time for it) and collecting feedbacks.

This are we need for optimum balancing!!... and present it relic and allow us to implement it in 2 or 3 patchs (or whatever), and estimated time.

Present a schedule of x patches. This way we remove that ideology of "These guys just want patchs".

Competitive Edition Version 3.35 was a evidence of it, spent months playing with it, even made tournaments using it.

Someone would take the initiative because relic will not have it. Although months of waiting without patches and empty news, has diminished the initiative of the people.

Regards.

While you can always try out individual ideas with balance mods and get good results out of it (e.g,, "Hmmmh.. how do we tweak Conscripts") getting a collection of changes off the ground is very difficult. There are simply not many people playing mod games to begin with. People start looking for mod games only when:
- The live version has stopped updating for sometime
- Live version meta feels way too restrictive
- There's a focal point (e.g., not 10243253 mods to choose from)

Miragefla did an amazing job with his mod, revitalising units/abilities when possible and trying to kick off some synergy where there was none. At the same time, Miragefla's mod came at a time when Relic had "restructured" their coh2-maintainers, and the future of the game looked uncertain. Miragefla's mod was also the only such mod in existence at the time (Cruzz's kappa mod had not been updated by millenia at sometime)

Even then, you will have trouble arranging games for anything higher than 1v1 and maybe 2v2. Thus, even if we made those ideas into a mod, we would never attract enough audience to trial them.

We could, maybe, try to make an 1v1-oriented mod to try out some ideas where meta feels very restrictive (especially call-in meta, Sov Lend-lease vs OKW Special Operations). However, to go beyond that would lead to a waste of effort (it takes a lot of effort to keep a mod up-to-date with advances in the live-game).

However, even then, we would have to start small, and we would still have to wait for sometime until people would be willing to consider playing the mod as opposed to the live version.

Sounds great to me, if a bit unrealistic. Haha. On a somewhat unrelated note, did Boy's AT Rifles get the same sort of change?

No. We were not allowed to touch either Boys AT or Conscript PTRS due to scope.

Personally, I would use Guards as:
- A more cost-efficient handheld AT squad (Penals gimp themselves to get PTRS; Guards can actually fight non-OKW infantry head-on)
- Button utility, which you can combine with a satchel or a snare
- Grenades

PTRS Penals are the low-quality substitute for Guards, not the other way around.

Then there's always the question as to whether you want to combine Guards with Penals (Satchel) or Conscripts (Sandbags and, whenever they become relevant, Molotovs)