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Immobilizing a tank long enough to bring your strafe in from the rear is considered good play and should be rewarded.

It is ready reward, it does not explain why in your opinion that chance should be 100% for all axis vehicles.

We already talking about a penetration nerf from 380 to around 140. But this is clearly not enough for you.

Pls avoid personal comment especially in these thread they non constructive.

I have nothing do with change, this was a balance team suggestion nor I have ever suggest it something like.

I have simply asked you a question

I want to point out in addition that IL-2 rocket strafe only exists at a commander without any doctrinal tank on its own, so this ability is meant to make up for the lack of the strong doctrinal soviet tanks in tank battles.

And that is the case for many Soviet commander. Nor all Soviet commander should have a doctrinal tank, else these tank should become stock.

Making the commander a single trick pony by expecting rocket strafe to carry the commander is not a great idea either.

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Imo the unit should be designed for more utility than fighting capability.

Suggestion:

Change the unit to be ideal crews for support weapons increasing synergy with weapon drops.

Change target size 1

Change aim to make them ideal for manning support weapons and allowing to be produces in late game when their target size of the unvetted squad turns them useless.


Add a squad penalty of target size 1.25 when the unit is in cover.
That should bring the performance back to current level.

Scrap the LMG upgrade, since concentrate DPS is not a good design for large entities squads.
Allow an upgrade that remove the cover mechanism completely and buff their weapons to fire as if in cover always.

Rebalance the rifle's performance in cover if needed.

Possibly add a grenade or molov or merge

The change will add utility the squad and allow them to be useful for the duration of the game.

I will post more captures later, I ran the same test with 2 close conscript sandbags on the right, cons still win, I decided to screen a mid-long range engagement because it's a realistic engagement and nobody is going to lose dps making volks advance, their STG is a mid range weapon, other than the hp/models losses

The pic was the second test actually, I moved cons a bit to make the 7th man get a cover and they won with 4 men

nice work, since you have started it can also test 5 men grenadier?

A "radio net work" type ability would nice for Ostheer and well suited for mechanized commanders.

Sight increasing abilities

There are number of sight increasing abilities in the game both stock and doctrinal.

Imo a change should be made to all these abilities so their impact is better balanced. I would suggest that these abilities become all timed.

The current implementation has issues.

For instance, the spotting scopes for ostheer have seen changes that make very situational.

A immobile 222 with scopes is very good especially once it reach vet 2.

On the other hand the upgrade is far less effective for other vehicles since it offers no benefit to when they are moving. Casemate have trouble even benefit from it when stationary since when rotating to truck a target the lose the bonus.

In sort I would personally take UKF/OKW tank commander over spotting scope when it comes to tanks since they provide bonus in more situations.

Similar change could be made for other abilities also.

By making sight abilities timed one could fix these and provide useful abilities but will limited time available.

For instance spotting scopes could provide a +10 sight radius for vehicles and an extra ability to provide focus sight but for limited amount of time.