Profile of Vipper

"Universal Carrier

The command vehicle ability allow vehicles to have access to cost-free recon. We found this to be an extremely cost-efficient benefit to inexpensive light vehicles such as the UC.

Command vehicle ability removed from UC."

In this case reduce the penalties to vehicle especially the speed one and the received accuracy one

Penalties to commanding vehicle:
-50% speed, +100% reload, +100% cool-down, -50% accuracy, +100% received accuracy.

Suggestion:
speed down to 4 for all vehicles regardless of type, received accuracy +50%?
That would give an extra use for Churchill since it will suffer the least...

The main issue with Pz-IV is not actually the Pz-IV but its counters:

The unit holds little shock value since most of its counter are on the field before it appears while its late game value diminishes with the appearance of heavy TD even if vetted. Generally is bad investment of resources.


1) Light TDs (same goes for Stug)
By the time PZ-IV comes out 2 Su-76 can easily be waiting for and the performance of the SU-76 is simply too good.
The SU-76 simply has too much penetration and accuracy at range 60, 100% penetration at range 60 is simply too much it should be down to 70%-80%, 55% chance to hit at range 60 (without counting collision). is also to high it should be down to around 50%.(either by less accuracy or by lower target size)

2) Heavy TDs
The accuracy of these vehicles is simply too high at range 60
Same goes for the accuracy of Su-85 especially since it has 88% chance to hit and 100% to penetrate.
Same goes for the accuracy of M-36 especially since it has 77% chance to hit and 100% to penetrate.
Same goes for the accuracy of Firefly especially since it has 110% chance to hit and 100% to penetrate.

The damage of the M-36 and firefly is also too high it should go down to 160 and have the extra damage via target tables against super heavy vehicles (Tiger, King Tiger, Elephant, JT, ST)

In addition the alpha strike of the firefly is ridicules allowing it to kill a PZ-IV in 8 sec with no reaction time. The damage of tulips again could go down vs mediums and normal via Super heavy, and the Stun could be removed vs mediums or the penetration could go down and the stun only available on deflection.

3) Hand held AT weapons
The deflection damage of these weapon make medium tanks unable to deal with blobs. Deflection damage should be removed vs mediums and only happen vs heavy tanks/Super heavy vehicles.

4)Stuart
This vehicle can shut down the PZ-IV and kill with any help from other AT weapon. The "Stun shot" and "point blank engine shot" should become vet abilities and/or scale with veterancy. They should start weaker and scale with veterancy even becoming better than they currently are but at vet 3

Other than that PZ-IV could see some price reduction or its competition (T-34, Cromwell, Sherman) have their stats lowered a bit and/or have their abilities/utility weakened since they have both good stat and ability/utility (tank commander for Cromwell, smoke can be vet ability, AP/HE the AP round can become slightly less effective vs soft targets) .

The aim of the light vehicles changes is not to nerf allies. Is to keep light vehicles useful thru out the game.

One would probably not built a m20 in the late game to lay mines because it was too expensive. So they unit need to become cheaper and thus their shock value should also go down.

Reducing the shock value on the units will also help prolong the infantry phase of the game and people will not have to rush expensive AT to counter the light vehicles.

So actually light vehicle have seen a change in role, from shock units to utility units and changes in their stats make sense.

On the other hand multiple nerf or buff on units that retain the same role is uncalled for.

Riflemen should not be on par with Ostheer because Ostheer have better support weapon but when distance between Osth support weapon and USF support weapon close so must the distance between Ost and USF infantry also close...

Imo buffing the weakness of a faction and bringing them closer to other factions does not actually improve balance but it messed up. One also needs to nerf the strong points of the faction to compensate.

I would like to point out again that the issue of the thread is not Stug-E

(and once more the easiest, and more accurate way to fix the weapon of stug-e is to model around the gun of M8a1 as explosive and not ballistic which fill fix all elevation issues)

What about ghosting sh..( wire, tanktraps, sandbags ). Any fix on that planned?

one could probably have them decay over time if they are not completed...