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« on: October 11, 2010, 09:07:05 pm »

In response to a lot of balance complaints recently, some mods have threatened to switch some units around (ie switching Wehr's PaK 38 with the US's 57mm) in order to show the whiners what they're really talking about, and to give everyone a bit of perspective on balance issues that affect core gameplay. Many seemed to be in favor of such a change, myself included, so I was pleasantly surprised to see that such experimental changes had been implemented, yet to an even greater degree.

To show these crybabies what they were really complaining about, the devs took various abilities in EiRR, and conveniently put them all into one doctrine: Airborne. I didn't think it would be possible, but the devs did an amazing job of fitting nearly every OP ability in for all of us to experiment with.

The big ones are obvious: 57mm ATGs can cloak just like their Wehr counterparts (Mortars and MGs can, too, just for the hell of it!), Airborne Medics can heal friendly troops, just like a Triage or CCS, but can also move around the battlefield (perhaps to represent the mobility that Medkits have to offer), AB can plant mines, just like troops from the Infantry doctrine, and best of all: Rifles and AB get assault grenades! Man, do I love how a single AB squad can wipe out a full health KCH squad. That'll show those whiney Axis fuckers!

But the true beauty of the Airborne doctrine comes from its more subtle aspects. The '101st Airborne' tree allows AB to take a direct tank shot to the face and survive, just like Axis KCH infantry can. It also grants ATGs and RRs +20% penetration. With even Skirted tanks dying in just a few volleys, it really shows those Axis meanies what it's like to lose an M10 to some marauding Stormtroopers. The tree even gives the player +6 Pop, more than any other doctrine, just so that they can experiment with even more stuff at once!

Honorable mentions go to Airborne Marksmen (because a normal Allied Sniper just isn't enough), and All Ghillied Up, which lets AB and AB Rifles cloak while stationary (it's like FJ cloak, but even better!).

The coups de grâce, though, comes from an ability I touched on earlier: Asymmetric Warfare. This ability basically turns any and all infantry units the AB player runs into mobile I WIN buttons, anywhere and anytime. At first I wondered what the devs were trying to tell us with this ability. The suppression breaking effects from Assault were there, as was the ability to make enemy units overdose on a large amount grenades to the face. But after some pondering, I realized that there was much, much more: the units are unsuppressable like Fire Up, fire Bazookas like Rangers, rapid fire said Bazooks like they were affected by Inspired Assault or Blitzkrieg, throw a half dozen grenades like Assault or a Satchel like an AB squad, on an individual unit based cooldown, and all for free (just like the freedoms we enjoy in this great country AMERICA).

I think the devs have done a great job in putting some of these abilities into perspective, and in doing so, have shown us how these abilities should never seriously be put together in the same doctrine.
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