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StephenWasntAvailable / Fixing-The-Guns

Repo for the Hearts of Iron IV mod, Fixing The Guns
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Improve Rocket Arty #31

Open StephenWasntAvailable opened 4 years ago

StephenWasntAvailable commented 4 years ago

Description: "Rocket Arty is worse than Normal arty in every way except a slight improvement in breakthrough. Suggest making it cheaper than normal arty, reducing recource cost and maybe combat width."

Comments I like the idea, we could maybe take a look at why rocket arty was used irl and then try to implement those aspects more realisticly -Jan
Amnesia: Making rocket artillery not cost any tungsten would make it a viable alternative over normal arty (Current cost is 2 tungsten 1 steel) can change that to cost 3 steel instead. Stee: Have looked into it a bit, general idea at least in WWII is that rockets are less accurate, but can be fired a lot faster for a short period of time, and are more mobile, and were generally an offensive rather than defensive weapon "Suggested changes : Lower cost / increased reliability (r.art was cheaper) Lower Defense (not a defensive weapon system) Slight increase to soft attack and breakthrough (offensive weapon system) Reduce resource cost to 1 tung 1 steel (r.art was cheaper, think it should require something more exotic than just steel, given main expense was rockets themselves)"

Ydloh commented 4 years ago

We need to keep in mind tho, that '43 Rarty has already higher soft attack stats and with the upgrade from the rocket engine tech it becomes even more superior. With Rarty becoming too cheap it might result in a complete switch out of Arty in around '43. IMO the current advantage of Rarty is, it can give another 32 soft attack without a width increase as a support battalion. So a production in rather low numbers makes it actually incredible valuable.

A reason why I often do not have it, is because of the extra research in 1940, a time where you need to get a lot of important researches done for Barbarossa.

StephenWasntAvailable commented 4 years ago

What I intend with the changes I proposed is to change r.arty to be a purely offensive weapon, to give it a distinct role from arty, which is sort of an all round weapon, so you'd probably still mostly build arty for infantry, but attach rockets to tanks to give them that extra punch.