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Could you add the following suggestion to the list?

- Give handbrake_v2 to all assault-gun/fixed-arc units

This will allow your units to use their full offensive capacity without clicking like mad to prevent your stugs/etc from rotating every time you get flanked.

The difficulty in implementing this is finding a grid-key location and hotkey that is common for all transports and assault guns.

Man, I'd love that. Also, manual reloading too, because these things just happen (what if your HMG's 6 second away from a blob after beating back another unit? It could happen!...I'm pretty sure that's the time to lose the red crosshair on the unit at the top right, so that would be less than standard reloading time and more than OOC+a few seconds).

I vaguely feel like it would be possible since I think the animations and duration for reloading aren't mandatory/can be controlled, but I would still not be able to be say this for certain.

With Maxim spam hopefully fixed, I think that manual reloading can be close to becoming a reality.

For CQC units, I would go for automatic reloading. Say; if the unit has been out of combat for 10 seconds, they could be forced to change their clips. That way, we avoid the clutter of adding yet another button in the interface.

Machinegun automatic reloading is probably not a good idea. If automatic reloading triggers while you are not setup, it will be scheduled for next time you setup. That's probably the last thing you want your MG to do.

However, what would really help CQC units is a hold-fire button. Clip size is calculated in bursts. Firing a single bullet at max range expends the same amount of ammo as firing a full burst at hug-range. For elite units it might be better to simply give them unconditional access to hold fire. They're elite after all!

Those are excellent thoughs. My only concern is that Stens/PPSh/STGs/FG42s will function as slot weapons.

As such, it will no longer be possible to pick weapons from the ground (or keep those units reliable when picking up weapons from the ground).

Stormtroopers could be cheaper MP-wise, so they can act as the MU-heavy countepart of PGrens. JLI should be available to them non-doc as a muni-light alternative. Their popcap and reinforcement cost should also be fixed to PGrens though; currently they make no sense.

In general, though, yeah. Infiltration units should distance themselves from insta-spawn cheese to long-term sustainable combat units.

(AT partysan popcap & reinforcemenct cost vs call-in cost EWWW)

Well I tested the new maxim vs AI and IMO it is OP when used in garrison.

Making the arc narrower will help axis and especially OKW to deal with it more easily while IMO creating less problems than most other solutions. If you do not like my suggestion as solution I suggest you come up with another.

Speaking for myself, my own list of priorities when considering changes to the Maxim (which is the only Soviet or OKW unit we are allowed to touch):
0. Raise the skill-cap needed to perform Maxim spam
1. Soviets should remain viable as a faction (i.e., at least 2 alternative strategies vs both OKW and OST)
2. Soviet T2 openings should remain viable vs both OST and OKW (i.e., at least 33% win-ratio). This also counts T2-into-T1 strats (who knows, we might start seeing them)
3. Maxim should remain a viable tool to counter LMG-blobs/Volks-blobs
4. Maxim spam should become an unviable/easy-to-counter strat for OST (3 is higher than 4 because Conscripts are shit)
5. Maxim spam should be unviable vs OKW

We are not going to optimise for goal #5 until we have achieved goals #1-4.

Making Maxim spam unviable vs OKW is not our primary design goal. Given scope scope limitations and OKW's insane lategame that goal is a bit further down the list of our priorities.

OKW simply sets the bar for MGs too low, and that's an OKW problem. Similarly, OKW sets the bar for late-game performance simply too high. That's, again, an OKW problem. Thus, we will probably have to deal with OKW problems when we examine OKW as a whole.

Brace just need to disable/reduce incoming repairs, and repair engineers should not be allowed to repair forward assemblies; like soviet repair stations (so that there's always a weak link you can get rid of first).

Alternatively, brace should only work if the garrison bonus is active (so that there is some manpower on-the-line).

But when you are facing the possibility of party cover, CalliOP, Land mattress, you don't want to rely on AT guns to be your main source of anti tank.

I would, but only if somebody is using a command P4. Otherwise NOPE!