Profile of rofltehcat

Just move them "back" to 2 CPs already ~.~
Changing their stats or cost or buffing their counters is a bad idea because this can upset the whole system once more in other ways people don't even consider yet.

Nobody complained about them at the old 1 CP, which is 2 CP in the new system. Their combat power was just the same but their window of dominance was smaller and the other player had more time to build counters. As stated in this thread many times, the German player requires several different units to prevent the Shocks from just destroying everything. Giving him a little more time to get all those different units would already change the whole thing back into a more stable balance state.


In general the new CP system needs to be double-checked because a few other things don't really make sense.

It applies to any weapon they are holding.

Well, they could also reduce AoE accuracy to a point where it always hits vehicles because of target size but infantry survive more consistently (e.g. 2.0 near, 0.3 far but the actual numbers could look very different). It would still cause some wonky situations (second closest man survives without a scratch, third closest man dies at 2 m range) and luck would still play a role (wipe still possible but less likely) but it'd cut down on the amount of squad wipes.

50% chance per entity to die when the vehicle is a bit too high and should be lowered to a more 25% per entity.

This was changed in a patch from (iirc) 25% to 50% to make the use of M3s more risky because they were basically a very cheap hp buffer shield (that could be repaired) for your flamer Engies.
25% can still make up a great variance. So I'd suggest that crashes just deal X-Y% (e.g. 60-75%) max health damage to every soldier inside. On its own it wouldn't be enough to kill them but if they are already damaged from small arms/fire damage against the vehicle, some will die and the enemy can still try to focus fire the escaped units that would now be on low health.
However, it'd need to be a % of max hp because a flat damage amount would either always 100% kill snipers in vehicles or would do too little damage to other units in vehicles.

So no longer would you see outcomes like a M3 crashing but 3 Engineers escaping without a scratch. But neither would you see an outcome like losing a whole sniper squad happen as easily as now (25% chance on M3 crash).

Another alternative could be nerfing Halftrack Garrison cover and decrease the % chance. This would probably also give a more balanced outcome.
Right now these vehicles are basically 360° mobile heavy cover objects (75% small arms reduction, that don't seem to be affected by the close quarters cover denial). Though I am not sure how targeting the vehicle vs. the units inside works, my gut tells me this is another factor that makes it even better than heavy (green) cover.

It has the same problem the German strafing run had when it killed even retreating units (German one would pin and then kill) and getting out of it with some units is basically impossible, partially because of its huge radius.

I think if it costs a lot of munitions it should be good but in its current implementation there is no way to really avoid it. If it forced a retreat on everything in that area without hunting them all the way back to base or killing them in retreat (if they are not heavily damaged already), it would already be very potent.
It'd still deal lots of damage to units like tanks that can not retreat.

I'd say change its accuracy from 11 (always hits whatever it aims at) to something like 0.5. This would still make it always hit vehicles but would reduce its damage against infantry a little. The missed shots vs. infantry would still score scatter hits.
This would also make cover worth something against it. Right now, no matter what kind of cover infantry is in, they will be hit. With this change cover would actually matter against this (if the plane arrives from the right direction).
If it turns out to be a bit too weak after this, decrease its cost or increase its penetration.