Profile of Sander93

exept that its buggy and barrages that got called in still land vs neutral sectors. It killed my sqads in neutralized territory.

Isn't that just because of delayed targeting? Most similar abilities will aim and lock onto a target and then it takes a few seconds for the ordnance to arrive. Neutralizing the territory while the shells are already flying won't cancel them just like moving out of the circle for aircraft strafes won't cancel their attacks when they've already acquired a target. I'll do some testing.

No they don't. They get it at vet 2 like every other engineer unit. They get increased construction speed at vet 3 (and 4).

So many hours in and didn't know that. Thanks! So bounces don't snare and snares hitting above 75% don't snare. Good to know.

Snares bouncing still always cause engine damage. They just don't deal full damage, but only a smaller amount of deflection damage. Which can be the difference between a vehicle dying or surviving with a small amount of hitpoints left.

Is there a guide to understand the basic math of the game?

Well, it's very simple. Chance to penetrate = penetration value / armor value.

So small arms (1 pen) against Shock armor (1.5) have a 1 / 1.5 x 100 = 67% chance to penetrate.
An ATG with 240 pen at X range against a 300 armor tank has a 240 / 300 x 100 = 80% chance to penetrate.

Thanks, and does cover affect grenade damages? or it is just how pack your models are?

Grenade AOE determines how much damage a squad takes based on how many models are within a certain part of the AOE. The further from the source of the explosion the less damage it does. Light cover has no direct effect on grenades, but indirectly it's worse against grenades and explosives because cover makes your squad bunch up (increasing the damage caused by AOE).

Heavy cover gives -50% damage against all weapons, including explosives/grenades. But only directional. So if a grenade is thrown over some cover, it gives 50% damage reduction. If a grenade is thrown or an AOE weapon is fired from the wrong side of cover, this damage reduction is not applied. Heavy cover also does not help against direct hits from most tank or howitzer weapons because they deal 160 or more damage, which means that even with -50% damage from heavy cover they still deal lethal damage (80), but obviously it does help against indirect hits, because the outer parts of the AOE profile for most weapons is lower than 160 damage.

I thought it refers to models and not squads? At least that's the way I understood it from the AE comment text

No it definitely has an effect on squads and not on models. Here's a test that I did: https://www.coh2.org/topic/36347/cruzz-s-the-more-you-know/post/767263

As you can see from the discussion with JJJ, it's uncertain whether it's misses that are being re-rolled into hits or that the squad simply splits its DPS amongst any squad that's within range/firing cone.