Hello, everyone.
I've noticed that a handful of leader squads come in a special command variant of their transports. These transports include extra radio equipment to facilitate command and control over the battlefield from inside the vehicle.
I always found it odd that commanders had to dismount from these vehicles to provide their commander aura when, in reality, they would probably be better off hanging around with the vehicle and its equipment.
My proposal is very simple. Make it so that, when a leader squad is inside a command vehicle — and only a command vehicle — that vehicle provides a command aura as if it itself were a command unit. This represents the leader unit making use of the special equipment inside his transport to direct the units under his command. When the leader squad dismounts, the vehicle stops providing the aura as normal.
This would affect the following transports:
From a gameplay and balance perspective, this would give infantry leaders two states:
A. When mounted in their command vehicle, they would essentially function as a less cost-efficient version of a support tab command car — more mobile, but also more vulnerable and harder to hide. They would be poorly armed, and if the transport were destroyed, you run the risk of losing the leader, too.
B. When dismounted, it would function exactly as it does now. You would have the benefit of a separate leader squad and fire support vehicle, which itself receives the vet bonus from the dismounted commander, but the squad itself has to trudge it on foot.
Command transports would not activate a leadership aura if you put any unit inside besides a leader squad, and leader squads inside other transports besides command variants would also stop providing their aura, as they already do.
What do you folks think?
I've noticed that a handful of leader squads come in a special command variant of their transports. These transports include extra radio equipment to facilitate command and control over the battlefield from inside the vehicle.
I always found it odd that commanders had to dismount from these vehicles to provide their commander aura when, in reality, they would probably be better off hanging around with the vehicle and its equipment.
My proposal is very simple. Make it so that, when a leader squad is inside a command vehicle — and only a command vehicle — that vehicle provides a command aura as if it itself were a command unit. This represents the leader unit making use of the special equipment inside his transport to direct the units under his command. When the leader squad dismounts, the vehicle stops providing the aura as normal.
This would affect the following transports:
- Command Carrier
- Command Stuart
- WC25 truck (2e DB, only the ones that the leaders come in)
- Befehl U304(f) (21. Panzer)
- SdKfz 250/3 (116. Panzer)
- SdKfz 251/3 (12. SS-Panzer and Panzer-Lehr)
From a gameplay and balance perspective, this would give infantry leaders two states:
A. When mounted in their command vehicle, they would essentially function as a less cost-efficient version of a support tab command car — more mobile, but also more vulnerable and harder to hide. They would be poorly armed, and if the transport were destroyed, you run the risk of losing the leader, too.
B. When dismounted, it would function exactly as it does now. You would have the benefit of a separate leader squad and fire support vehicle, which itself receives the vet bonus from the dismounted commander, but the squad itself has to trudge it on foot.
Command transports would not activate a leadership aura if you put any unit inside besides a leader squad, and leader squads inside other transports besides command variants would also stop providing their aura, as they already do.
What do you folks think?
