Profile of Hannibal

While none of you have to agree with him, you've got to hand him that first his threads, even if they are often biased, usually spark a big discussion that gets more or less constructive after the first wave of bullshittery and second, this topic is one of the most reasonable he has posted recently as well as he gives a decent argument. So maybe stop bullshitting people at spots where it's not really due.

The KT needs a buff to get it back to relevance. The question is if a faction should be able to buy a heavy tank sixth commander slot for approximately 50 fuel, and also that fuel investment gives you other boni and possibilities.
If the KT becomes a decent unit again, this question is very much valid. Honestly I'm not sure how to handle it, OKW has no heavy tank in almost any other doctrine due to the KT, but of course the free slot gives another goodie to OKW.
I'd say buff the KT to a normal level, then we'll see how much of a problem it really becomes. If it is a problem, I propose another side tech as a paywall to hide the KT behind it, so that the OKW player really has to pay without directly getting a benefit for what is basically a sixth commander slot.

Uhm yeah. There's not much more to add. Friedly fire is completely over the place. You can look up the stats in the attribute editor when you download it in the tools subsection of Steam.

Does not make much sense, but it likely won't be changed as well, as the impact on the game is surprisingly little.
Just find out what does no damage and cheese the fuck out of it. Or be like basically 99,9% of the community, me included, and have no idea what damage each ability does to your own units, but better not try it out anyway.

The numbers are all over the place, but even the high damage ones rarely whipe your squads

I dislike the stuka design but hey it is what it is. I would just lower the range so it has to get closer to the action and thus be in a more risky situation.
Or make the travel time greater for the rockets so its harder to hit move / retreating units.
Or tie it to tech 3. Makes it so its not unlocked before you get Schwerer Panzer HQ down.
The problem right now with stuka:
- too easy to use
- ignores fog
- comes way way too early

I think someone suggested making the stuka shoot like irl so the rockets would only hit in a straight line the way the stuka is facing. That would make it more of a skillshot and make it easier to dodge.

I disagree with the last two points ('comes too early / area only in the direction of Stuka)
It comes earlier than other rocket arty, but you heavily delay your medium tank, which means that you must rely on Raketenwerfer for AT. The Walking StuKa comes at approx 10 minutes, which gives you 2-3 shots when perfectly microed until the enemy tank comes out and you have to defend the StuKa for more than five minutes. Also it's OKWs obly possibility apart from back teching to counter British emplacements, and you often find the emplacements only after you decided to tech up already, so OKW would have next to no answer to a ofors, since Raketens range is a bit short.
The unit timing is fine since OKW has a real drawback (only Raketenwerfer as AT) for it.
The forced directionality of the impact would als make it next to useless, since you can alsways dodge left or right an the StuKa will be a miss.
So finally lets compare it to Panzerwerfer and Katyusha:
Katy: 4 salvo firing, generally lower whipe potential unless really close to the target. Last salvos can be dodged. Good against static units. Area denial tool.
Panzerwerfer: 1 salvo firing, generally low whipe potential when far away and very high potential up close. The one salvo mode forces to attack only high value targets. Impact area is therefpre very predictable, but it's harder to dodge if you react a bit too late.
StuKa: 1 salvo line firing. Also only attacks high value targets, but due to the line firing nobody knows if you will hit or not and how multiplexed the mind games are. Neither attacker nor defender can really do much to influence the damage compared to other rocket arty. Generally high whipe potential at all ranges.

The problem is the StuKa is too much rng and poker playing even for CoH. Unless the StuKa fires at two team weapons at one, there's no way to guess how the shots will land and how they will be dodged. It's just frustrating and random, since the unit can be next zo useless for more then 5 minutes or whipe 3 squads and win you the game

they only have 1.09 more RA for team weapon is always worth it as they have 1.25 base RA, for other if they got vet it does not matter as base they have 1.00 apart from guards that have 0.97 base

im unsure if they keep their armor or get the armor of the squad but anyway u pay much less to reinforce for a 9% RA difference generally for inf and it's instant, it's more than worth it, and with the 7th man upgrade u pay even less for merging

My reasoning was that the maxim is generally rarely worth buying, the mortar often does not need it and is cheaper to reinforce.
This leaves us with the ZiS, Guards (trade MP for RA, but only if your con is full health, otherwise running back to base might anyway be better) and flamer pioneera.

I also assumed that they do not get the armor, since armor is bound to the model just like RA? Could be mistaken though.

small update:
Today we (rank 1100 at the moment) got matched against VonAsten and Isildur. Yay!

The matchmaker is having quite a bit of fun recently