Profile of Cruzz

31.10.2014.2

OKW minesweeper radius increased to match other factions
Enabled attack ground on 222 20mm
OKW combat blitz speed bonus from +100% to +50%, received accuracy modifier from -50% to -25%
Improved Jackson acceleration, deacceleration and rotation rate slightly to make it less of an Elefant mobility wise. Speed not changed.
Reduced vet requirements for Stuka zu Fuss, LEIG, Sturmtiger by 20% because these units pretty much always fail to reach more than vet2 even in very long games.

Partysans! Partisans always spawn with SVTs and can instantly upgrade to either SMG or LMG now, and cloak while stationary in cover. Also added hold fire. AT partisans not changed for now because I felt there was a bit too much cheese potential with their full power AT weapons if they were given similar abilities.

question for Cruzz - is it possible to, for example rename unit from call-in and place them to Tiers? Changing units in Tiers? Changing units weaponry? Adding them new weapon upgrades?

All are possible, upgrades are quite a lot of work because there are a lot of files involved. The other three are fairly simple.

do the changes to demo charges mean rifle grenades can damage them now?

Rifle nades could always damage them and blow them up in one hit, but because the armor on them was 35 and riflenade penetration is 25 it meant that 30% of the time it would do no damage. Same for other grenades.

2.1
PD: does the Assault Engineers flamethrower crit at another rate?

If you mean flame explosion death crits for the flamer user, for whatever reason both OKW and USF units are twice as likely to get these as soviet/ostheer.

Changelog for 31.10.2014.1

Vehicle crew thompsons from 45 to 25 seconds build, cost from 90 to 45 munitions

Mines and demolition charges changed to 15 armor from 35 armor. Should be a lot easier to destroy with small arms. Demolition charge physical size increased and manual targeting of them allowed. Hitpoints remain at 20 for mines and 40 for demos. For clearer damage output against mines hitpoints should be increased and armor reduced even further but that would nerf all ballistic and explosive weapons against them, so leaving like this for now.

Reduced SU-76 aoe damage modifiers slightly, increased angle scatter from 5 to 6

ISU152 setup increased by 0.5 seconds

OKW Smine build time also increased from 10s to 15s to match Ostheer smine change.

Why B-4 should lost +50% damage buff?
It is easy countered by Stuka and Axis players should use doctrinal counter. Loosing 50% damage will be like "Eeee, dont take Stuka, B-4 sucks"

Because it increases the aoe against all targets by a huge margin, making pretty much every shot guaranteed infantry wipes even if it misses by miles, and makes it oneshot even a king tiger from full health when used in conjunction with for mother russia. It might be easily countered by certain offmaps, but except for those it really isn't easy to counter at all.

I'm pretty sure nobody considers the B4 to "suck" at vet2, and the performance on that level hasn't changed.

• Increase the build time of each s-mine patch to prevent players from safely and ignorantly building them during an engagement. Should apply to both OST and OKW. Cost can still remain the same.
  

Increased build time from 10s to 15s per patch

• Is it possible to make a revealed mine more vulnerable to small arms fire?
  

Yes, it's fairly simple. Mines have 35 armor like other buildings, that's the primary reason why small arms do nothing to them.

The AOE radius for the SU76. Anymore splash damage that thing is going unleash hell on infantry and the Soviets already have enough squad wiping units in it's arsenal and it has the barrage. I would perfer for it to be moved to T3 and have it's AT capability improve, it is a Zis gun on wheels after all.

"Any more splash" when the thing really has zero splash in release version. There's no point improving it's AT when it's in the same tier as SU85. And moving units between tiers is something fairly radical that I'd like to avoid if possible.

Double MGs on obersoldaten, why is this necessary at all? This is only going to make MG34 drop more easier and will undermine the obersoldaten in such a ridiculous way because it will make the obersoldaten a walking christmas present like the guards.

Because the LMG34 on them is so far out of the weapon performance curve it ain't even funny, needed to do something about it without altering the Obers too much. Any squad picking them up is a terminator. Maybe just flat out nerfing the MG34 and giving the 3 other guys better base weapons is a better choice, we'll see. But they absolutely need to have their damage spread out between the models better than now.

T34 reload speed. I don't really like the idea of T34s being so close to performance to the Panzer IV, I didn't like it when Relic made T34s 100 fuel since a single T34 can stand up to a Panzer IV on a straight up fight but the only difference is that T34s has a slightly less rng chance. Oh well, personal preference.

Nobody was complaining back when its reload was still 0.6 seconds faster than it is in this mod now.

Flamethrower Halftrack, instead of a cost decrease Id rather have the dps increase on the halftrack. Relic did nerf the damage before giving it a requirement for t2 anyways when it's near useless at that stage.

Sniper still two man, but I don't know if cruzz can't change this or he perfers Soviet snipers to be two men, since he did modified it a little.

It already has better DPS than KV8, not sure how squadwipey you really want it. The way I see it, the issue is not damage output, but competition from more durable alternatives at that point in the game, especially for the munitions part.

You would not like soviet snipers as a 1 man squad with balanced out reload and camo to account for that. Plus it's straying a bit too far from the base game for me again.