Half track / Russian transport

Hi guys, I'm very new to the eastern front forums and just wanted to make a suggestion to improve the game (this is my first post  ;D).

I suggest making a halftrack / troop transport vehicle for the Russian faction. It would (in my opinion) be used only for transport. Possibly something similar to the supply trucks or the M35A2 Deuce and a Half. This would give the Russians an ability to deal with machine guns early game and help them cover ground faster. I would recommend not giving the transport guns or attachments just the troops inside could shoot out of it (like the bren carrier without the machine gun).

The problem is that soviets already have a lot of units :-\. Although I would like to see a transport for soviets as well ;D.

Welcome to the forums! :)
anyway, what black bishop said is pretty much true, but its definitely a good suggestion. i guess i dont use half tracks much so i didnt realize that soviets didnt have troop transport. as for tactics against mgs, i just use insubressible ability of mortars to knock them out at range. +flank.

I think the medic truck is a kinda troop transport too. I mean you can "retreat" to it and use it as a mobile rallypoint.

Yeah I'm thinking that the Troop Transport could be a reward for the Med Truck,

I suggest it be replaced with the ZIS-5V an open top truck that could carry roughly 25 troops obviously this would have to be tweaked and balanced out if it was to be implemented into EF.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIS-5_(truck)

You know that the medic truck is called: Zis-5 Medic Truck
and also no vCoH faction has a troop carrier in which you actually see the men sitting inside and not shooting.

Ah my mistake I thought it was called the ZIS-3 for some reason.

Well they also  used the ZIS-5 enclosed truck, but I'm not sure if they used it as a Troop Transport.

The Kangaroo and Bren Carriers you can see the troops but as you said they shoot out of it, And it may screw with the balance having mobile firing soviet troops.

Would there be a way of making the troops not fire out of the ZIS-5V or would it be best to have an Enclosed ZIS-5.

The question is:

Soviets really need the transport?

I think that no, because they have mass of infantry, order of them is SPAM :P. Someone of players will transport them to battle? OK, all vanilla fractions have transport but that means that SU has to have it also? They will be more uniqe if they won't have it.

ZIS-5 is mobile rallypoint, so somehow you can only retreat them to truck and i think that this is better than transport.

That's all what i want to say about this topic.

does anybody actually send the medic truck in to the battle and retreat to it?

I guess :P. Some brit players have captain run past defensive line then everyone retreats to captain and then they kill everything :-\

stealthattack1 wrote:
does anybody actually send the medic truck in to the battle and retreat to it?

Truck must be set up, so it's more likely to get LOLPWN

Soviets don´t need a transport vehicle. Just retreat to your medic halftrack that is placed near the front line. That is more powerful than a transport HT.

I sometimes wonder why I bothered to make my List, you know the one that most people should read the moment they join the forum so they don't propose ideas that, from common knowledge, are not needed ::)

The reason the Soviets don't have a transport is because this is one of their weaknesses. I don't really think they need one because the horde is supposed to run towards the MG while the real soldiers flank around and kill it from the side. Plus one can retreat to the Medic Truck (which is an ability I despise truthfully, people just treat it like a moving Forward HQ in combo with an Outpost) as has already been mentioned.

Its like a Brit HQ truck :P. Only it heals. And with an outpost you can reinforce and defend :P

IMO this topic is done.