Profile of Spinflight

"it's a lot better ( garrisons) than what the Brits used to have before..."

Remind me what that was exactly?

The AEC has just been buffed and can now be fairly reliable against infantry. Those Volks I mentioned earlier would now be toasted Volks. Still vulnerable to shrecks but it can hit back too, especially against blobs, and outrages them handily if not very accurately.

First one can come out at 95 fuel ( compared to 255 for a first Cromwell) hence you can field some useful early game armour and consider the side upgrades such as bolster squad, Brens and Grenades.

I suspect with the AEC ruling the roost over the axis light vehicles it might even make the Universal carrier more appealing and should allow at least the possibility of being aggressive, especially towards cutoffs and fuel points.

When did this patch take effect?

Won a couple of games earlier ( which is very unusual for me!) using AECs...

The main complaint about the AEC was it's extreme lack of AI.

This has been fixed it appears so what's to complain about? Should be worth it's cost now and give the UKF a decent early armour option.

"Interesting idea. So are you saying that your manpower income will decrease? Or that duplicate units have a higher pop cap? And is this only for infantry or will it affect vehicles too? "

Manpower income would decrease, as it does now but in a less linear fashion. Say you had 'too many' Pioneers( whatever that number happens to be) on the field at the same time. Instead of paying 10 manpower per minute it might increase to 12, 14 or whatever depending upon the level of spam.

More likely though bayonets, whether in tank or infantry form, would be immune or at least have a reasonable ceiling however support units like engineers, MGs, mortars, rocket arty and the like would be penalised. So you couldn't field a huge army entirely of Sappers and Vickers without taking a future manpower income hit.

Captured weapons and vehicles of course wouldn't count.

It wouldn't cut out cheesy sniper / MG spamming but it would give it a cost.

It isn't entirely unrealistic, a company would have a hard limit to the number of x available before it had to start borrowing them from elsewhere. Most of the spams complained about are from support units which doctrinally are there to support infantry not replace them. Being crap and losing them shouldn't be penalised but spamming nothing but Maxims or snipers could be.