Profile of Sander93

it isnt... its suppression is the lowest in the game and is nearly 4 times as long as the suppression of the 3rd lowest machinegun (vickers)

It's slow but not that slow. At mid range against neutral cover the Vickers suppresses in about 1.55s while the Maxim takes 2.56s. At max range it's 1.73s vs 4.27s.

Yellow Cover only benefits you Vs small arms (marginal benefit vs direct fire explosives due to reduced accuracy).

Explosive weapons generally do not use accuracy. So in general medium cover is worse than no cover versus AOE weapons because it makes models clump up, which makes them take more AOE damage from single hits.

As far as I know Hit The Dirt gives special bonuses though, namely -10% damage for -20% accuracy (and immunity to suppression), not a medium cover bonus (-50% received accuracy). So it does help versus grenades, but not a lot.

if you do a direct comparison in a particular setting and scenario with controlled entry and outputs, that works yeah. but ignoring everything and just saying "unit has 690 EHP so it's OP" is just wrong and misleading.

That wasn't the case here though. Vipper only pointed out that despite a relatively low received accuracy bonus from veterancy the unit still has a high amount of effective HP because they have a very low base target size, which is all correct. He didn't claim this made Commandos OP as a unit, he claimed this makes Commandes durable and hard to wipe (in combination with other factors such as the smoke on retreat), which is also correct.

One also has to point out that there can be UP units/abilities in strong factions and vice versa.

Bringing the units/abilities in line does not necessarily result in actually buffing the faction.

Also true. For example I don't think giving the Tiger II slightly lower popcap or giving the Tiger I a bit better vet 2 scatter would result in making OKW more powerful as a faction. It would primarily result in these units simply being a bit more of a viable choice compared to the alternatives.

Fausts and weapon upgrades would still take a full BGHQ. Nothing changes there.
HMG and indirect would be available for 170mp/20fu, which is in line with other factions.

OKW needs early incendiary grenades because they don't have stock flamethrowers. I don't really see how this is an argument for anything.

Medics would become a lot cheaper to get indeed, but the opposite (live) is that they are ridiculously expensive compared to all other factions (370mp/55fu or a continuous stream of 45mu).

These changes would be a first iteration for testing. If they prove to be too powerful, they could easily be scaled down. I already proposed an alternative for the medics that is simpler.


OKW getting indirect faster would open the door for a Maxim buff. I don't think Cons need anything because of how well they scale now. CE and Penal changes would hopefully give Soviets a bit more options. If testing would reveal Soviets could use more changed I'd be happy to add them, but I can't really think of anything right now. I think they're doing fine at the moment (at least in teamgames), those stats are very outdated by now, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

As for the T-70, it's a major clutch unit that I'd like to (slowly) tone down a bit to see what would be needed to compensate for it. It'd be healthier for the game if ultimately the Soviets had a more balanced mid game.