Profile of miragefla

Sniper battles were fun in vCOH and skill intensive.

No. That's where any argument dies when you also consider most weapon teams were also 3 man. You also forgot about the sinking ship that was THQ. And honestly I don't feel lag or unreponsiveness and that's coming from a person whose internet fluctuates whenever it feels like it.

Anyways no remake. Just as Budwise said, take the best from both worlds and put them into one.

1. Burst Damage. Cons only need 5 shots to drop a model and against Grenadiers it's far more punishing as that's 25% of their DPS being dropped. 16 damage vs the 12 of Volks or 8 of Rifles. It's RNG, but it can also allow Conscripts to suddenly catch up in a DPS race at short.

2. Overstating the 1.087 when you consider most Axis early ranged infantry already have good accuracy and the fact Cons are 20 to reinforce per model vs a Grenadiers 30 or a Volks 25. You make it sound like it's the weapon team 25% which is very noticeable compared to the Conscripts 1.087. They also still have 80hp per model.

3.And? Tank Traps are harder to fit squads behind and are exclusive to Rear Echelon. Volk Sandbags also aren't exactly large while the USF needs specific docs for sandbags.

4. Conscripts are not mainline damage dealers and never have been. Doctrinal troops or the upcoming Penals are the ones who deal damage, while Conscripts take damage/draw fire and be the utility belt they are. It's how they've been for awhile.

The only thing Conscripts should possibly get is lower reinforcement costs with veterancy to maybe at 16-17 to emphasize their role as support/screening troops for the other Soviet units and possibly adjustments to their grenade packages in costs.

If we're really bored, give them a squad leader like in my mod just to mess things up

You don't see the problem with your "obvious solutions"?

You're not supposed to have all the answers to your problems on a single building. If you want to be able to fight early vehicles better, you go for the mech building in lieu of having a retreat point closer to the area of operations for better map presence and more aggressive infantry play.

Or do you think other players have it all ready in a single building? You have to be able to feel and predict what your enemies are going to be relying on earlygame.

Thing is the Flak HT is a fragile unit primarily meant for defense and with the MG34 it's less necessary, but then again the Flak HT isn't even a good deterrence to mass infantry. It's more focused on single infantry units and aircraft.

The Flak HT doesn't need to be able to solo light vehicles or even kill them, but it should at least harm anything below/at AEC/T-70 levels of armour to make it a choice rather than the idea being to spend that MP on more infantry and support weapons and save the fuel. Right now you can drive the USF AA HT right into the Flak HT and kill it horribly even if it's set-up.

Churchill's in a weird spot as a veterancy feeder that also gives no damns if its flanked since its low armour is compensated by its high health pool. It lacks proper firepower and mobility as well. It also costs quite a bit and for some reason is more population than a Panther.

I like the idea of a meatshield/shield but:

-Company of Heroes 2 AT lethality is high and in the late game double ATGs are common and will strip quickly HP from even the mightiest of tanks.

-Unless you can do something, you just eat shots. Churchill's not threatening enough with the grenade being fixed and no longer being a nuke and has a slow rate of fire.

-You can probably ignore the Churchill for the most part and shoot at the glasscannon units.

I'm wonder if giving the Churchill some sort of aura would be an idea, either passive or timed. Not to improve effectiveness of units, however. Instead, a de-buff that would hinder the enemy and weaken their effectiveness. It could maybe work on both vehicles and infantry and would force units to shoot the Churchill to get rid of the de-buff. This indirectly makes the Churchill harder to kill indirectly as well as nearby forces which it should be supporting.

I'm not sure what sort of de-buff we'd be talking about, that's my idea aside from a few suggestions of increasing armour so it can deflect, but reducing health.

but did you test it with a cooldown on game start like old rifle company vet1 rifles, so that you could create a sweet spot where you had plenty of t1 units as axis, but also a big enough window for the WC51?

while ALSO preventing the possibility of having 2 or more WC51 so early.

How long would said cooldown be, however? The first part of the cooldown will probably be spent of the first rifle squad being trained.

A WC 51 only take takes 30 seconds to be off cooldown so I'm guessing if we were to go with that idea, around 50+ seconds.