Profile of TheMachine

The tooltip for being unable to upgrade the STG's on Volks needs to be updated. It says "Converted Truck required" But this is untrue if you have the Battlegroup HQ since now you need the vehicle upgrade unlock. But this old tooltip is now misleading.

Yes Soviets bad tier structure, absence of non-doc good tanks/infantry and over reliance on the T-70/Quad/T-34/ and Katyusha for cheesy anti-inf power is really not fun. I've been working on an "asymmetry" mod to shake things up for fun.

It's inherently flawed tier system that can never be balanced: Penals and M3 need to be mediocre to compensate for the fact they arrive at the start of the game. But since Tier 1 doesn't have access to support weapons, it is an extremely high risk/low reward option. How do you balance mediocre units on a high risk/low reward tier without making them OP? You can't really. Lowering the cost of teching lowers the risk element, but I think having structures cost only 80 manpower is inelegant and feels contrived. (just like a 12 second build time) 4 Conscript models for an entire building?

Additionally, Soviets are far too limited in viable commanders because they have no advanced tanks in Tier 4 like Panther/Comet. So you only see Commanders with call in heavies or T-34/85 and KV-1. A non doc KV-1 (nerfed if needbe) would open up a lot of other non-meta call-in tank commanders.

In my WIP mod I changed the tier system so that it's linear and the Weapon Support Centre is the new Tier 1 and Special Rifle Command is the new Tier 2 which means M3 and Penals can get buffed without them being obnoxious because they arrive later. (This was actually someone elses idea on the forums that I saw)

GG

Prioritise Vehicles seem to be bugged now by having AT guns fire at infantry.

The problem with nerfing the Vet 3 on the Conscripts is now that it's going to make PPSH cons even more weak. PPSH Cons are so bad compared to 7 man upgrade or SVT's. PPSH Cons really need some love.