Profile of Dullahan

New version of the mod
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=557952243

OKW:
Starting fuel reduced from 40 to 0
Panzershrecks cost back to 90
Volks cost increase from 235 to 250

Reducing their fuel to 0 is probably too far in the other direction. Every other faction can make some sort of teching decision within the first minute or two of the game: Brits can get t2 or upgraded squad sizes, Americans get grenades, weapon racks or an ambulance, Soviets can get t1/t2 or molotovs/AT grenades, Ostheer can choose to either get t1 or save up for a quicker battlephase 1. There's currently strategies that incorporate such decisions: brits often get early squad sizes vs ostruppen builds, americans can get early grenades sometimes, soviets can stay T0 for a bit with molotovs or tech up early for other stuff and t2 rushes with ostheer are pretty popular now that MG's are t0.

OKW can now do fuck all. They need to gather 45 fuel to make their first possible tech choice. This means that the only build order diversity you have is going to be manpower based. They don't even have anything to spend munitions on other than mines and sweepers (outside doctrinal stuff like flamers) until they buy a truck. This will make them incredibly stale and predictable in the first 3-4 minutes until they can field a truck. (And probably another 1-2 minutes before they can field much in the way of units) You're also not really solving their teching issues entirely: their panther is still significantly cheaper than the Ostheer one (45 fuel for supply halftracks at most, 170 fuel for base trucks at most, then 175 for the panther. Still cheaper than Ostheer who have to spend 130 for battle phases and then 75 for the structure and then 175 for their panther as well. And ostheer is going to build other tech structures along the way. The fuck you gonna do, increase panther cost to 200+ fuel?

Ultimately, all this is accomplishing is fucking over any and all teching options OKW had and making them super OP.

imo, scrap everything except maybe the veterancy changes.

If you really want to rework OKW properly, put resource conversion on the HQ instead of limiting it to mechanized. (Disable it until they build their first truck, obviously) Maybe increase the effect of fuel conversion to 1 fuel per 3 muni rather than 1 fuel per 4 muni but that may be too good.

No need to completely ruin the flavour of the faction.

it should probably have a cost. as vietnamabc mentioned though, the command vehicle is shit on any other vehicle because of the debufs. the fire rate is the biggest one since it makes the tank completely ineffective.

I mean it's a trade off between "how durable do I want it to be". A bren carrier one shot by AT guns and 2 shot by most anything else.

The buffs it provides alone are worth the cost. The recon plane is just icing on the cake.

With how early you can get a bren command vehicle, it can get pretty nutso.

In the later stages of the game, I don't mind putting it on a Centaur since I generally want one as an AA platform but it's not a front line combat unit later in the game.

But that's not any different from what it's now. You need to gather 55 fuel in the live version. Sure, fuel income got increased but conversion got removed so in the end, the FlaK HT will arrive pretty much at the same time (5-6 min) - you also need 100MP more than in the live build.

May actually be slower because the truck prevents you from building infantry, so you have to wait to build it until after you got your initial squads out rather than building the two at the same time.

I'm too lazy to do a test though.

I never thought Relic would be dumb enough to read the containment thread.

OKW is batshit OP now while also being far less interesting to play. Their unique teching structure has been neutered, and killing a truck is a slap on the wrist now because they can call a new one in for cheap rather than having to wait. Now, OKW has no reason not to build trucks in forward positions for maximum benefit. They have the early game infantry power to defend it with even MORE cost effective sturmpios and OP volksgrenadiers. They get their PzIV even faster than Ostheer, even if you removed their starting fuel bonus. They can get a Puma around the time your opponent is thinking about a light vehicle, alongside panzerschrecks.

So good job guys. Your ideas suck. If it ever makes it into automatch I'm done with the game.

If you manage to win against a decent ~ human ~ opponent with this build, pls post a replay

Got a game open right now if anyone wants to play.