- Sorry. Yea, I'm not good with names :p My bad.
The thing is, other factions have a lot of neat little
gadgets. Wehr have Tank repair Bunkers, can eat
tank corpses for munitions... American have that
economic upgrade thing (for low low upkeep), PE have
insta-call in of dual panthers, and lots of nice little inter-locking
upgrades. Soviets while neat... are kind of... ... simple?
No vetting, no corpse recovery to make fresh armies,
No sector locking (like all other factions), realllllllly weak
initial soldier (As per beta/conscripts vs V0WE-Volks),
no neat economic niceness... straightforward, yes, though.
M8 drops mines. T17 stuns vehicles. HT-AA replenishes
troops and is anti-air... PE-Pz4 locks for extra reloadspeed.
Models are sweet as hell, yes
SU85 (while I love 'em to death) seem a little too strong
if the comparison is to the T34/76. Especially in light that
older T34/76 won't upgrade to T34/85.
I have a few suggestions?
- SU85 crew/viewslits are sucky before/85 upgrade?
(Exact same faults as early T34).
- Need a T34 built before a SU85 can be built (British
HQ tank for Firefly mechanics)
- Limit to SU85's being built (It's a Marder3 with ARMOR)
2-3 max at a time is fair. So they can't be spammed non
stop. T34's GOT to be called in to fill the void.
- T34 call-ins. At a mid-date. Perhaps only one at first.
then updatable to 2. This also guaranteed there will be
a few around despite SU85 yummyness. Around the same
time as Americans pay for first Support Depot upgrade.
Heck. Pay for summon 1 ability (early) Pay for Summon 2
ability. Even make them separate, perhaps? So can still
summon only 1 at a time? Although I 1, then 2 at a time.
The idea is to make attractive to USE the T34/76.
Can upgrade to T34/85's call-ins after the upgrade.
Perhaps again pay to translate the call-ins to the upgraded
T34/85. This would help still keep some older T34/76's
around (for variety?) until the player is serious about going
'85's for real.
It's not overpowered early on, and will be a life-saver.
And will help soviet tank groups reach 'critical mass' later
on. Especially in context that it's going to be hard to
repair all those tanks.
- No PE wehr super repairers (Wehr Pe are 2 pop and
bunkers are 0 pop) or 1 pop /4(Melded with Infantry)...
Brits have SUPAH-repairer engineers (give extra health)
American have AOE all vehicles repair for 150 Munis...
Soviets have zilch.
I'd figure a Truck with tank-AOE repair ability? (as in
Codename Panzer?). Or, yes, an ability to spam/ressuply
rapidly new tanks to the battlefield (Call-in T34s).
Heck, they don't even have Vet. (But then neither do
PE Panther duo) Not like Wehr Panthers who come in
with automatic (previously paid for Vet).
: Sector lock-in. I was thinking why not Zis6 trucks
(Like PE Jeeps but no MG, and no pop). Same health/armor.
or a special bunker that's on top of the flag (Like OP) but
needs a special upgrade (like Wehr Bunkers). And can be
crewed with infantry (gives conscripts a reason for being)
and There are similar, in COD... 1? the add-on... ah, with
tanks. There's a capture the flag with bomb variants
with bunkers.
Use tanks to kill bunker, then send in troops to set off
dynamite. First team to kill the other team's 3-4 Bunkers
wins. And they were spawn points, too.
... Soviets lost whole armies a lot of times. Hitler knew
for sure they were meat and done for... and then, miraculously, the soviets threw yet another army at them,
and then another... where did those #$($((! come from?
... So, what about it?
oh, and...
Cage for T34
SU85 is a sniper. T34 is a squirmisher...
It's the one who needs the cage
Shermans of the East...
... Well, Shermans can get top MG, vet, they can be
upgraded with a mineflail (although I think only 1-2 should
have it at a time, tops). Croc is an added variant of Sherman.
The Firefly and the Priest are shermans. The M10 is a Sherman. The M10 used a Medium Tank M4A2 chassis (M10A1s used M4A3 chassis)
so lots of variants, etc.
The T34 has got 3 variants. The Far superior SU85 can
be built before the weaker T34/76 of which it is a VARIANT
(But then the StuG4 is a variant of the Pz4, so, meh)
And what can they do?
... Can they get extra speed like cromwells?
... Can they tie-on any extra goodies? (Exception the SU85
cage which should go on T34)...
Sounds to me like their redeeming quality is speed of
construction and cheapness... aka : Spam
Give 'em
a racial call-in and you got that enshrined as their true-
to-reality virtue. Heck, it's even historical, what with how
they just rolled 'em off to battle without paint on when
they were like 80% constructed, with factory workers
as the $#@($\ crew!
Heck, I'd even give a general racial upgrade to remove
the '-2 Vet initial T34' thing. But, please, please, please...
Slap the initial SU85 with the same problem as T34/76
until general upgrade for them both
... If one is too good, the other will be ignored.
No?
