Company Commander

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[3rdCondor]

How about a Company Commander unit unlock for all factions? Every faction earns a company commander who provides aura buffs and special abilities for the whole army. A company commander can be a footsoldier, tank, or support unit for each faction. There will be assigned units to designate company commanders (ex Sherman, Panther, KT, Hummel, Officer... whatever). If you haven't yet purchased a commander, you can see the unit available under the "company" tab. Think of it like the difference between a panther and a panther ace. A player can choose to purchase regular officers, tanks, or infantry.. but they can also purchase 1 commander from a selection of units.

Company Commanders probably shouldn't be super powerful, but they would have buffs. A company commander in a sherman might come with better armor or speed. A company commander panther might have sight buffs or smoke screens. Commanders of all types should have special aura buffs to reduce suppression and other things like that. These buffs would be more exaggerated than the buffs unlocked in each doctrine, but only one commander can be present for each company... so the units are rare.

There are two ways that can be approached (from what I can see atm):
1) company commanders are persistent units chosen at the beginning of company creation and can unlock powerful abilities with vet. Similar to DOW or games of the like.

2) company commanders are glorified "ace" units that can be purchased in each company, but they cost more resources and would prevent people from being able to spam along with their company unit.

WHY DO THIS?

Because it's a fun way to be able to name, customize, and deploy your own commander in each battle. It makes vet building much more interesting and allows for each player to lead their commander into battle, who is designed to fit their own fighting style.

[Hicks58]

Or, doctrines could be more focused in what they do, and allow for the naming of high vet units. Possibly a different skin for high vet units too.

Do this, and we wont have to add entirely new units for every faction and doctrine and worry about buffing the respective units, auras and subsequent over-buffed blobbing that will ensure.

I like the idea, but it shouts out that it's a stop-gap for something more permanent. That, and I've never liked hero units of any type in WWII games. Acts of extreme heroism or courage were performed by your average man who had risen to the challenge, or had some real balls of steel. Perhaps both.

[Spartan_Marine88]

seen this thread before

Edit - Spartan, I love that pic, but we can't have them in this forum.

[Groundfire]

I thought that this would be a good concept for another reward unit.

Not stuff like "Panzer Aces" cause that's just recycling old shit. Im thinking like something like a 3 man no combat "General's Staff" type unit that conveys global buffs for just being on the field.

[3rdCondor]

I thought that this would be a good concept for another reward unit.

Not stuff like "Panzer Aces" cause that's just recycling old shit. Im thinking like something like a 3 man no combat "General's Staff" type unit that conveys global buffs for just being on the field.

yeah I was thinking something like that too.

I used the "Ace" example to help illustrate how it might appear under the company tab. Regular sherman and cost vs commander sherman and cost.

Please feel free to discuss and provide other ideas.

[Groundfire]

Another idea I heard and liked from someone on here was to have lower tiered officers be a separate unit but you can link em to another unit you want in the launcher for a particular stat buff.

Like, add a staff officer onto a squad and they get +15% accuracy to that squad alone.

I would like to see it as a separate linkable unit so to keep it from falling into an "upgrade" category and having every unit have access, but you could pretty much do it for infantry, tanks arty, etc.

Especially tanks, I would like to see a "experienced tank commander" that can be garrisoned into one tank for specific stat buffs. I think OMG has something similar to this already. It's a great idea tbh. Allows for unit customizability without heavy handed doctrines. (and we can pretty much make any tank have a commander now)

[Smokaz]

I'm more excited about the idea of buying veteran units. These units should have a slightly higher cost, but can get two additional levels of experience. No stats difference other than that! If you can get it two level five (obnoxious xp requirement) it should also have a nice juicy thirty-percent chance of reroll when destroyed to reflect these being elite units and survivors of a thousand psychic wars. On top of the level 4 and 5 veterancy bonuses being good.

http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/279/Vs554179364.jpg

Level 5 stuart, haunted by the chivalrous ghost of Jeb Stuart, american civil war cavalry commander.

[EIRRMod]

survivors of a thousand psychic wars.

Good song.  Prefer the Metallica version.

/derail

Back to your normal channels....

[TheVolskinator]

Why not just go the way of OMG and let regular units get vet4 (can be renamed) and vet5 (new skin) -.-. Its simple and it would add a new reason for me people to retain ludicrous amounts of vet.

[nikomas]

Hahaha... I would totally preserve stormtroopers (to the point of hindering normal gameplay) if I could at vet 4 rename them to...

ANTI-TANK NINJAS!  

Or a MP-40 volk squad the A-TEAM... the last member is the guest character 

[Rahx]

ridiculous

[Spartan_Marine88]

Or a MP-40 volk squad the A-TEAM... the last member is the guest character 

give it boobs and its Jessica Biel

[RikiRude]

I'm not a fan of the idea, though I'm not totally against it.