Profile of Katitof

Prestige is a function of time, not skill.

There is plenty of utter noobs at prestige 3 who have no slightest clue about the game, balance or how to play(check the balance forum to easily spot them, they usually advocate for only 1 faction).

The only thing that matters is rank and positive WL ratio.

My thought is that both upkeep and popcap are BS mechanics, that punish for squads/units preservation and make combacks easier than they should be.
Unfortunately, it is too late to remove it, since lotta units are balanced around their upkeep/popcap costs

Making comebacks possible is one of the selling points of CoH series and relic RTS games.
Otherwise, you could simply quit the game after losing first engagement as steamroll effect would be a factor since you can not harass menpower economy in any way(and even in coh1, it was not meaningful enough).

Now check guards and Shocks.
or hmgs
or ATGs

Since the community patches started they started moving away reinforcement cost, reinforcement time or build times rules.

Ok.

Original cost of Shocks is 360.
360/6/2=30.
Original cost of guards is 360 as well.
Do the reinforce numbers I got with formula resemble anything to you yet?

Both HMGs and ATGs have weapon cost on the gun itself, subtract that and you will end up with weapon crew costs.

ZiS3 gun original cost for example is 180 and original cost of gun+crew was 360.
(360-180)/6/2=15

But ZiS have costed 320 for Ages with 15 reinforce as well, right?
That is because the GUN got cost decrease, not the Crew.
Currently gun costs 140.

(320-140)/6/2=15
Would you look at that?
Everything checks out!

Same applies to maxim, but I got not values for old one anywhere.

Quite a bit of exceptions were made, but many current costs as well as pre-mod era costs all check out with the formula.

There is no reinforcement cost reduction the rule simply does not apply.

Most of the units that had their cost changed simply do not follow the original rule of reinforcement cost and that includes a number of allied units.

Please do not state your personal opinions as Facts.

Sturm Pioneers
One of the biggest problems the Sturm Pioneers faced was the expensive manpower cost to reinforce. With the overall design changes to the OKW early game we wanted to make reinforcing Sturm Pioneers less penalizing on the player which will encourage their use in various builds.
•Reinforce cost reduced from 40 to 32

Original cost was 320.
320/4/2=40.
Formula checks out.

Panzergrenadiers

We are looking to minimize the heavy attrition cost of this unit. •Reinforce cost reduced by 10%

Original cost was 360.
Original reinforce cost was 45.
Formula checks out, later on squad and reinforce costs were balanced separately.

Fallschirmjäger

We are looking to minimize the heavy attrition cost of this unit. •Reinforcement cost reduced by 10%

This one is bit more tricky, because of opportunity cost of 80mp originally.
360/4/2 is 45, which is their original reinforce cost.
Formula checks out.

Obersoldaten

We are looking to minimize the heavy attrition cost of this unit •Reinforcement cost reduced by 10%

Original cost was 400.
Original reinforce cost was 50.
Formula checks out.

Infantry Sections
We are addressing the heavy attrition costs that infantry sections have. •Reinforcement cost reduced by 10% (28 per model)

280/4/2=35 which is original reinforce cost.
Formula checks out.

Now, if you still sit in disbelief about reinforce cost rules;

Grenadiers:
240/4/2=30 which is their reinforce cost since forever.
Cons:
240/6/2=20 which is their reinforce cost since forever.
Rifles:
280/5/2=28 which is their reinforce cost since forever.
Volks:
250/5/2=25 which is their reinforce cost since forever.

You can apply this to every single squad that does not spawn on field(you need to subtract opportunity cost and then it checks out, as you see on falls example) and you will get correct results, because formula you pretend does not exist actually does.

At the moment squad and reinforce cost are balanced separately, but all were introduced with a hard rule on these costs being tied together.

Since when is reinforcement cost anything of consequence?

The initial purchase cost is the only thing that matters.

Must be the reason why obers, pgrens and couple of other axis infantry got reinforcement cost reduction, but not total cost reduction.