Profile of Aerohank

Why is everyone so angry?

Aerohank - I'm not saying it's "super OP". Could you show me anywhere where I say that?

I'm saying it's partof the reason that sniper strats and ISU are overpowered and hard to punish.

What function does it serve? To stop the German light vehicle / tank spam nobody is seeing in 1v1 / 2v2?

When there is an ISU, Axis needs to be able to flank, correct? When there are snipers - attack with light vehicles, right? No. Because guards essentially negate that option. The button ability is part of the reason for the Face-Face tank slugfest meta. Flanking is punished with button. I think that's wrong.

Soviets wouldn't suffer early game if it was removed. There would be a lot less late-game cheese if it was taken out. I don't see a real downside other than soviets losing an easy vehicle-wipe ability.

I know you are not saying it is OP. I am saying it.

Lategame Soviets should lose. Button has to go. Lategame cheese should be something that only axis can do with Smoke, Blitz, Überinfantry, Kingtigers and Jagdtigers.

Hmm, I see there have been a lot of undocumented changes to grenades with the changes in AoE profiles. Very well, I shall remove my comment.

The last time I read a post about one of the Stats Gurus on grenades the shock trooper grenade was the weakest.

Change it back, so allies can pick them up IMO.
But 60-75 ammo for one medical drop would be an Overkill.
Dont't get me wrong, but they haven't touched the medical supply ability by itself since release and now it's broken?!

btw they can sprint? Are you sure?




http://www.coh2.org/topic/22128/luftwaffe-supply-doctrine--medical-drops

It has probably been written off as useless form the get-go and thus never used. Just like many people claim the Sturmtiger is useless without actually exploring the unit.

60-75 would be a completely reasonable price for 1 crate considering what the ability does. It heals units in a big radius during combat, it gives them stats bonuses and sprint. There is no downside like a minute stats nerf like for mother russia.

There are many abilities that alter stats, as I have shown in the opening post. When compared to the prices of these abilities, and what they do, 60-75 ammo for a medic crate is not overkill at all.

Edit: it seems I was mistaken about the sprint ability. I was sure I saw some grens running with double speed, but maybe they were glitched by an explosion or something. Removed it from the opening post.

The Luftwaffe Supply Doctrine medical supplies ability is beyond broken. It makes units in a big radius have in-combat healing and buffed stats all for a whopping 10 ammo per crate available at 1cp.

In comparison:
- OKW valiant assault is 100 ammo and comes late. It also does not heal. A mass retreat will render the effects of the ability to a minimum.
- Medpacks, the vet1 Wehrmacht ability, can only heal 1 squad and is close to the cost of 3 crates.
- For mother russia is also 100 ammo, comes late, does not heal, and comes with a 1 minute downtime where the units are weaker.
- Concentrated Fire ability on the Artillery field officer is 25 munitions while a 10 ammo crate does the same + many other benefits.

Seriously, this ability is stupidly powerful. It also stacks so if you pick up 2 or more crates your units get insane combat effectiveness for 20-30 ammo. It's not even funny. For the stats bonus and in-combat healing

Proposed changes:
- Keep stats the same, make it 60-75 ammo for one medical drop. This will make it more in-line with Valiant Assault and For Mother Russia. It would make it possible for the enemy to retreat to minimize the impact of the drop, just like with valiant assault and for mother russia.
- Keep it cheap at 10 ammo per crate but remove all bonuses except healing, and make that out-of combat only.