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I've had a trawl through the last few weeks of Balance Forum and picked out a bunch of fairly straightforward suggestions I thought warranted further discussion. I don't personally agree with all of them, but I think they all have merit.

Second part: https://www.coh2.org/topic/104052/balance-forum-general-poll-ii
Third part: https://www.coh2.org/topic/104058/general-forums-poll-on-balance-changes-part-iii

Overreacting much?

Were you around for GCS 2?

Ostheer literally turned into a one commander faction.

The current patch is restoring the Mobidef Puma to its previous state. While a lot of other things have changed, it does rehighlight an issue with Panzer Tactician: it's a huge powerspike for Ostheer T2.

Ninja smoke is less of an issue in the mid game, but it's hugely impactful early on in 1v1 when there's a lot less AT on the field.

There's an easy fix for it though: bump up Panzer Tactician a few CPs. It still provides its extra survivability to Panzer IVs and the like, but you don't get the same oppressive early game Flamer HTs. (They'll still gain smoke if they survive to the midgame, though).

I personally think CP5's the place to go for (so the Ostheer Puma starts with smoke), but I've added everything below it to the poll. There's even CP1 and CP0 if you for some reason think Panzer Tactician needs to be buffed.


This would consistute a 1v1 nerf to a faction that really doesn't need a 1v1 nerf, but the balance direction of the game for the last few years is not relying on doctrines to fill holes in factions. Ostheer's nondoctrinal problems should have nondoctrinal solutions, which I have another thread for if you're interested. https://www.coh2.org/topic/103763/ostheer-tech-restructure

Maybe reduce P2 fuel cost to 55 and increase T3 fuel cost to 50？Then P3 and T4 fuel cost bundle to P3 like balance mod？

The idea is to make sure all the costs line up, so the timings don't change.

It's not meant to be a big rebalance of Ostheer, so I was careful to keep the price totals the same in order to have minimal effect on the timings.

But shocks are not in this doctrine, ass guards are. Shocks have armour and ass guards do not which nmakes them easier to squish in where shocks would be OP, like they would be alomg side the m4c and DSHK...

If you want spammable CQC troops, you can pick a Shock doctrine, a PPSh doctrine, Soviet Airborne, you don't lack for options.

If you want the CP3 Meat Chopper bundle, you pick Lend Lease.