Profile of Hannibal

Why nerfing IS is taking so long. Its obvious that they need an urgent fix.
What is the balance team doing? Arent they working?

You do realize that patching a game that is not yours can be quite complicated?

If you have been banned then there should be a message box popping up when you go into online lobbies. The box might contain no text though

But replacing lost mainlines is completely different from replacing engineers. If you're issue is that you lost your pioneers and the new ones you built aren't holding up in combat, I mean, that's tough. They aren't supposed to, and my received accuracy suggestion is only meant to help them a little

Biggest reason to want vetted engineers is the repair bonus at vet 2, and they already added a repair speed bonus to the sweeper



I have said this for years, they should also get XP from kills/damage they do with planted mines. It seems the modteam doesn't want this or its not possible because its never made it to a patch

I have never said that pioneers should be potent fighters. But OPs point was that OST pios cannot really get vet after the midgame, which I find to be true. Giving them higher vet bonus helps only if it can be reasonably reached.

Pios AND CEs should just get some received accuracy bonus with vet. They currently get none, and pios especially would benefit since they have smgs

I doubt that this solves it. The early game pios would be fine because they already got the veterancy. Late game pios still have no chance. Conscripts had similar problems before their buff: A vet3 Conscript from the early game was alright, but if you lost them they had no chance of vetting up again and just got shredded.

I see a similar issue with combat engineers, they just do not vet enough.

Best solution would still be if mine sweeping would give XP. That way especially sweeper squads would be able to vet up. Or just give a small amount of shared veterancy for pioneer units with a sweeper.

What do you mean by model focusing and retaining DPS?

Do you just mean using all your squads to focus fire?

I am talking about targeting of single models that the players cannot control. I'm not 100% sure how infantry models pick their target, but there are some values like "threat" (however that is determined, for tanks it has something to do with penetration, for inf I do not know), but I think the most important one is distance. So in an engagement, infantry models will pick the closest target, or at least I assume they do. But it is impossible to control this in the game, so for the players it is basically random which models are targeted. This can lead to your whole squad focusing down one single model of one single enemy squad one after another (best case for you), or your squad spreading the damage equally because everyone targets a different model (worst case).

The targeted squad will therefore be able to retain its DPS for longer if the damage is spread or shorter amount of time if a model gets focused.

For example Grenadiere draw the short end of the stick since they run around in a V-shape formation. This means that they have one single model that will make contact with the enemy and is then the primary target. Other squads often have two members at the front, which leads to a more spread-out damage and late model drops.

You can make theoretical calculations with DPS and health to state which squad should win, but there will be a decent randomness factor due to this model focusing.