Unit suggestion thread:

in terms of modern ( even WWII) warfare, what isn't in move is dead.
Emplacements are for british faction, levae it as it is. Also they are easy to destroy/ neutralise... and some people claim they are lame.

cephalos wrote:
in terms of modern ( even WWII) warfare, what isn't in move is dead.

I do not recall. Will Ostheer have amobile reinforce point like the PE IHT?

Yeah, i believe they will have a Halftrack.

ostheer will be very flexible and will have the most options available to any axis faction, otto

it has already be announced that the ostheer has a halftrack


you can reinfoce there and after an upgrade also healing troops

The model might be modified, the skin certainly will. It'll also have an optional Flak 38 upgrade with modernisation.

Perhaps, an Infantry Squad armed with StG44's.

They have the ability to go into Precision Mode or Assault Mode.

In Precision Mode, they fire their rifles Semi-Automatically, maintaining high accuracy even at longer ranges. While in Assault Mode, they fire fully automatically in order to deal high damage in a short time.

Maybe to prevent it from being abused, the switch could take a few seconds or have a cooldown timer, or some other system (such as switching to auto as a mun ability, similar to rifle's suppression fire).

the ostheer has already an mp40 after modernisation stg44 squad
why the devs shoud create another one?


Panzerfusiliers
Role: Infantry
Weapons: 4xMP40, after modernisation: 4xMP44.
Upgrades: Extended magazines (might be removed)
Abilities: Grenade Shower
Modernisation: Gain MP44 instead of MP40.
Summary: A squad of four soldiers wielding MP40 submachine guns. They are tougher than the Landser and excels in close combat. Their time based ability called "Grenade Shower", as the name suggest, unleash a vicious rain of stielhandgranates to the target until the effect worns off. Extended magazines upgrade grants them a better rate of fire.

I probably should have posted that in the ability suggestion thread, which I only just noticed.

How unprofessional of me  :-X

Fuckin' A that's nice, man. ;D Kind of the equivalent of the Quad-50.

Excellent job DMz ;D!!!

I would like it to have a supply upgrade so that it can drop weapons for a certain amount of munitions depending on the weapon.

Nice work DMz!  :D

What i think is final version with uv map fully sorted ect.

http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff276/Gertudedubeef/251-174.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff276/Gertudedubeef/251-173.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff276/Gertudedubeef/251-172.jpg
http://i239.photobucket.com/albums/ff276/Gertudedubeef/251-17.jpg

Belongs to fatsos division.

Looks great :D!!

I like it DMz. I think we should use that instead of an another unoriginal Flak Panzer.

HyperSniper999 wrote:
I like it DMz. I think we should use that instead of an another unoriginal Flak Panzer.

Ehmm... we already said that Ostheer Sdkfz. 251 will have an upgrade to make it Sdkfz 251/17 ;D. And you are looking at the very unit that will be on Ostheer side :D. Quite unique IMO.

blackbishop wrote:

HyperSniper999 wrote:
I like it DMz. I think we should use that instead of an another unoriginal Flak Panzer.

Ehmm... we already said that Ostheer Sdkfz. 251 will have an upgrade to make it Sdkfz 251/17 ;D. And you are looking at the very unit that will be on Ostheer side :D. Quite unique IMO.

Then what was with all the talk of like Mobelwagens and Kugelblitzes and whatever awhile ago?

Kugelblitz is planned to be the reward unit for the Brummbar. Well, it's just an idea, not consolidated yet :). We could never try to add such unit to the normal gameplay.

Last edited July 18, 2011 at 3:11 AM by blackbishop

What blackbishop said.

blackbishop wrote:
Looks great :D!!

Nice work there, mate. 8)

How is DMz not a Dev??? That is my question.

Zat's amazing!  :D

HerrVoss wrote:
How is DMz not a Dev??? That is my question.

Because he's free like a bird ;D!

but is this the model used by the ostheer?
or is it only the same thing made by another?

Man I can't wait to shoot down those pesky Sturmoviks with those AA halftracks. ;D

HyperSniper999 wrote:
Man I can't wait to shoot down those pesky Sturmoviks with those AA halftracks. ;D

2 Ostwinds do the job pretty damn good actually. Add some vet and there's no air threat. (And free muni!)

You can salvage munitions from crashed planes?

Of course. ;)

evilSpike wrote:
but is this the model used by the ostheer?
or is it only the same thing made by another?

This is the model that Ostheer will use :). Model by DMz, animations by eliwood, it will be made for their community project on RelicNews forum ;D. What means this is not exclusive to Osheer :).

Oh, alright. So what's this project they're working on?

http://forums.relicnews.com/showthread.php?245065-Community-Model-Project-Updated-3-July-I-ll-werf-your-nebel!

Nice, man! I love mods! So their project is basically just creating new units?

realy nice model

but in direct comparison




i think the 2nd pic looks more like a relic skin which i would prefer :D

evilSpike wrote:
realy nice model

but in direct comparison




i think the 2nd pic looks more like a relic skin which i would prefer :D

I agree I like skin 1 and 2 better. But if most of the Ost vehicles will look like Skin 3 I think that's a better choice. I like them all very much and they all look fan-freaking-tastic, I just like 1 and 2 for their relic-look-alike type of coloring. To me Skin 3 is dark and looks like something to use on a darker woodland map.

I think we should use historically accurate camo patterns. Relic's fantasy skins are terrible.

HyperSniper999 wrote:
I think we should use historically accurate camo patterns. Relic's fantasy skins are terrible.

no thay would mean that the devs must replace also the vanilla skins and changing vanilla wont happen.

and yes i like the vanilla look of pic 1 and 2 :D

HyperSniper999 wrote:
I think we should use historically accurate camo patterns. Relic's fantasy skins are terrible.

Many things in Company Of Heroes are inaccurate or exaggerated. It's part of the charm. ;)

IMO Fieldgrey war machine skins > Relic skins > Camo fruit skins, but that's just me.

I do think that OH following Relic's skinning scheme is best though.

I hope it'll be possible for somebody to make an MP compatible OH skinpack though.

I'm sorry, but I just can't take the Germans (or anybody for that matter) seriously in Relic skins.

They're not meant to be taken seriously. ;)

pariah wrote:
They're not meant to be taken seriously. ;)

I find a game where you blow the living sh*t out of people and shred them apart with machine guns to be hardly a joke.

Yes, the gameplay isn't neccesarily historically accurate but atleast make the visuals so. Please, at least.

Last edited July 19, 2011 at 12:39 AM by HyperSniper999

There is plenty of comedy spread amongst the chaos, though.

pariah wrote:
There is plenty of comedy spread amongst the chaos, though.

And that comedy can still be funny with historic uniforms and skins.

I'm not saying it can't - I'm just saying that the skins don't need to be historically accurate, because the game isn't really about that. Whatever the devs choose to use, i'll be happy with.

Fine, as long as a dev, or somebody, makes an optional skin mod for the OH if possible.

Would it be possible to play multiplayer with a skin mod if other players don't have it? Would they conflict or be incompatible? How are they implemented? Like reward units or another mod?

pariah wrote:
Would it be possible to play multiplayer with a skin mod if other players don't have it? Would they conflict or be incompatible? How are they implemented? Like reward units or another mod?

I use a vanilla skinpack and it has no issues with anybody else.

Alright, that's cool. 'Cause if everybody needed that skin mod to play together, you would be severely limited in who you can play with... So if only you have that mod installed, your units will appear like normal to the other players?

pariah wrote:
Alright, that's cool. 'Cause if everybody needed that skin mod to play together, you would be severely limited in who you can play with... So if only you have that mod installed, your units will appear like normal to the other players?

Yes. That is correct. And their units look like your skinpack.