USF elite infatry are limited by the CP3 restriction and by the number of infatry the faction gets by that time. One will usually see 1-2 elite USF infatry in game.
This suits me personally; I do not make more than two units of the same type.
On the other hand Assault Guards with Thompson are actually very powerful and they their should be restriction in their numbers.
Changing the M5 to an USF M3 and lowering CP to 2 might be enough to make them attractive even without drop-able weapons (which is actually a very design imo).
Paratroopers and Rangers are not limited, it’s enough to make the Assault Guard without an HT and leave it on 3PCs, but change the 1st veteran ability now is all a salvage mine and adjust the grenade damage - now it is terrible and random. So what I think should be SVT-40 at start and Thompson? Bazooka ammunition purchase.
Look at poster above you listing every single usf unit as "godlike". Thats probably what balance team thinks too. They are not concerned about usf having terrible results in tournaments or being meme faction among team players. 76 and easy8 will suck and it seems pershing will join them soon.
Recently, I played a lot of the USA and in my experience I can say for sure: 75-mm Sherman is the best
non doc medium tank of the Allies in terms of efficiency / ability to price ratio.
Lend-lease M4C is completely equal to the Easy Eight. So why not give the Soviet M4C such a crew as the Easy Eight, because the Shermans were supplied with a full set of helmets and weapons for the tank crew.
And another small detail, many people ask why the Soviet Sherman is called the M4C - this creates confusion, because the British called their 17-pound Sherman the letter “C”.
But this is not the English letter "C"; this is the Russian letter "C".
The United States supplied to USSR with two tanks with the same designation M3: M3 Stuart and M3 Lee. In the Soviet classification, they were called M3L - light (М3Л - Лёгкий) and M3C - medium (М3С or М3Ср - Cредний). M4C is the generalized name for all M4 Sherman medium tanks.
Used. But I mentioned that it was all mostly 1941 and possibly the start of 1942, rarely in the Marines, but maybe I just don't know shit about Marines.
I mean, at least they could be upgraded with them, not just come with them right away? Sorta like I suggested, idk.
And we aren't talking just about the Lend Lease, I am talking about putting them instead of Shocks, and maybe Guards with several upgrades, in my version 2, that would improve their capabilities vs Infantry or Vehicles, and also have the 3rd weapon slot to make them further more useful and attract players into using them, it's just the idea and I am asking the community about it, not asking the community to change them only in the Lend Lease, even the title says that.
Firstly, the photo shows Thompson at different dates from 1942 to 1945. Secondly, this is not a historical game. This is a game based on the Second World War: in one order the “conscripts” of 1941 and Katyusha ZiS-6 of 1941 together with the IS-2 of 1944.
And, No thanks, why replace the excellent Shock Troops with the mediocre Assault Guards. If it is valid to make them a unique unit of middle distance, between the Shock Troops and the Guard, and for this they just need the Thompsons (after all, they have good damage over the medium distance), can still absurd the replacement. Now there is no point in replacing.
I fucking said that HT shouldn't be tied to them, I said that in my post, why isn't anyone reading that part?!
And I have an idea in mind of them being worse than other 2, but also be able to have upgrades that would make them more useful in some situations where you need more Anti-Infantry or Anti-Tank capabilities, not like Guards being able to do both with maximum damage or Shocks that are literal 6 men Obers with Close Range capabilities.
So the unit would be used in the situations you need them fit a certain role, so they could be used differently, so it would bring more diversity into the Soviet playstyle and less Guards/Shocks spams.
AND NO FFS WE DIDN'T USE NEITHER THE ZOOKA OR THE THOMPSONS IN THE SOVIET ARMY WE HAD OUR OWN STUFF GOD DAMMIT.
WHY I SAID THAT THE SECOND UPGRADE WOULD GIVE THEM 3 THOMPSONS IS THAT IT WOULD BE MORE LOGICAL FOR THEM TO BE UPGRADED WITH THEM NOT JUST GIVEN STRAIGHT AWAY MY FUCKING GOD I'VE GIVEN A FULL EXPLANATION WHY WITH NORMAL LANGUAGE TRYING TO BE AS OFFICIAL AS POSSIBLE
This Assault Guard is tied to the Lend-Lease commander, therefore, to stay in the Lend-Lease theme and to be useful, Thompson and Bazooka is the best option, because both of these weapons were sent to the USSR and were even used:
In the current state? No thanks. Even in the current mod with three Thompson and three SVT-40s, they are worse than the Shock Troops: a bad grenade - its damage is completely random, in most cases it doesn’t even cause damage, first veteran sucks. HT is not needed, such a concept of units is disgusting, if a player wants to buy HT he will buy it separately.
Make an Assault Guard without HT with four Thompson and Bazooka alternatives.
Why wouldn't they?
Its their theme and they arrive late.
It also prevents spam.
Why should they? in Mozhe they are 3CP s and cost 510mp and 30 fuel. Is at least one other elite infantry worth so much? No, and even though with Thompson they are not so great. These are just three Thompson who give more distance, Guard grenade - shit, 1st veteranism - shit, there are no alternative weapons of ability. So it turns out that this is still the same meaningless unit.
Why Guards still appears along with HT is an absolutely stupid and unnecessary function. If I need to buy an HT, I will build a T3 and buy an HT. The purchase of two Guardsmen will cost 1020 mp and 60 fuel - this is nonsense. It is completely inadequate and not worth it. Even the purchase of one Guardsman (510 mp and 30 fuel) is not worth it; his strength is not so good as to deeply weaken the construction of the T3.