Tanks:
The first thing that annoys me is how the tank line is simply placed like the old terror doc. Not much effort, boring, nothing special.
Just the good old way... Tank, big Tank, Best Tank, Super Big tank.
I mean we have put so much effort into making Propaganda doctrine and BK doctrine having both the exact tanks needed and added in a very cool and special way. But that new tank support doc.... just put tanks into it, unlock them in a line, doesnt matter if it makes sense or not.
And if you go for Tank destroyer, the doc gets just as boring as the old one. In fact even more boring since you can basically play camping 2.0 with infantry that become super effective in camping as well when you put them near your tanks. And even in larger numbers than ever due to cost drop. And even emplacmants. Its far worse than the old doc in this regard and a lot more annoying and boring.
If you go tanks, you get Tiger for high CP cost, then expensive Panther D and finally KT. And as infantry support just basic grens which need 4 CP just to have an lmg which esspecially now should be considered a core element of infantry fighting.
which brings me to the next pont:
Infantry:
The next big issue. Now we get some tools that should enable the infantry to stay and fight with the vehicles and tanks easier. But why all the mobility adds like combined arms ability for vehicles to speed up your inf when for the most part they are much better off by just camping with the vehicles, Tanks and even emplacments since you only get ranged weapons for the grens (which are supposed to be the inf that accompanies the vehicles).
So, i am sorry to say this but i would get back to the working table. You did a fantastic job with all other doctrines. I love all the reworks so far.
Edit:
Alright. I thought it might be easier to get an idea of what i actually proposed and showing this makeshift proposal.
Infantry:
-As you can see, you would unlock the heavy assault grens that spawn with two STG while the rest gets MP40´s.
- Initially they are 5 men, later 6 after upgrade of squad size.
- They would cost 340 MP Initially
- After cost drop a squad would cost 315 MP
- The LMG Logo is in fact a weapons supply upgrade that enables the upgrade of STG´s for the remaining squad, G43´s unscoped for the entire squad or a single LMG42. It also gives them a Panzerfaust.
- Its cap rate is higher than that of other PE infantry units.
- The unlocked buffs will only apply to the Heavy Assault Grens. Not to other Grenadiers.
So the main goal is to give this doc a well suited infantry at hand. I know that the doc should be the supposed weakness of this doc, however, i think Tank docs need their Infantry that supports with what they need. And since this doctrine is a supposed assault doc with aggressive pushes, it does need some sort of infantry with close range weapons that can do the dirty job.
The inf forces available enforce either only camping (spamming rifle equiped infantry only) or are just not suited enough for real combat and costly to replace (Stormpios) and lacking core abilties (eg grenades).
Thus, this is why i specialized the Assault grens and stripped them off of standard Rifles and giving them a purpose which they will barely find in Luftwaffe or SE doctrine which rely on different units.
But Also i left them weak enough by not adding any kind of Veterancy and stuff. Their main job will be to stay with tanks and vehicles, not fighting prolonged infantry fights on their own.
Tanks:
The Major Change here is that one Tank IV unlocks Tank IV/J, JP IV/48 and, if needed, IV/70. IV/70, however, requires also an upgrade for MP and fuel in the Tank Hunter building.
Panther and Tiger line are now independent and have a better CP adjustment. Panther G or Jagdpanther cant be deployed together. You have to choose whether you want panther or Jagdpanther by upgrading the respective building (cost MP and fuel). Same goes for the King-Tiger and Jagdtiger. Only the Tiger is always available as well as the Jagdpanzer IV/48.
Artillery.
I would also like to bring in the idea of adding the Wespe artillery instead of the Hotchkiss to be the main stay artillery. I would find that way less OP. Hotchkiss is in my opinion too much of an "emergency i delete the enemie forces button" that just drives behind the heavy tanks and gets activated in an emergency against enemie assault attempts and infantry flanking attacks. It would make it near impossible to assault and flank arround the tanks, let alone trying a bazooka charge that would get killed right away by hotchkiss.
So get rid of the Hotchkiss in this doctrine and add something that fills the purpose of softening a certain point of the enemie defense rather than having a stupid "I barrage everything randomly to death and deny enemie attacks" unit.
So instead adding the Wespe would seem far less OP to me. It would only have standard rounds to prevent being too good of an counter arty as that would break its purpose of supporting tank advances.
Alternatively, and it may sound stupid, but even the Hummel would be OK for me. Why? Simply bc they would shoot way less often and only at really important targets. Its build cost, barrage cost and ammo upkeep would force the player to only get it when really needed and to only use it when really needed instead of "always going for it". Better a one time, 650/100 unit with high upkeep and 100+ ammo per barrage that fires once in a while than having a stupid little cheap bad ass tank constantly firing mindless rockets and that gets replaced one second after it got destroyed.
Edit: @Tiger: Yes, removing all mark target abilities from the game. I would rather have some sort of calling in flares or something. But Mark-Target feels like it gets marked by a laser and using laser guided shots against the target.
