infantry propelled auto cannons and mortars.

[inland wave]

I think, if implemented correctly, infantry or armor squads rolling a auto cannon such as a 20mm would be a interesting addition. It is the type of weapon that could be a worthy rework of artillery giving more variation to destructive weapons which could roll down a city street and create good suppression and damage on enemy infantry or maybe light vehicles. Mortars could also perform this in a different way by giving infantry closer ranged weapons that could be fired over objects and into an enemy location. Mortars would be great for assaulting on enemy garrisons or attacking outposts that are too hard to reach by a simple infantry assault. Engineers could build these auto cannons or mortars, or maybe an auto cannon could be operated by an armor unit.

Obviously these would have to be made correctly as to balance them in the allready chaoit world or hell let loose but I think it could be interesting.

Here’s an example of how I could invision autocannons being implemented.

https://youtu.be/sVrsVVLKLQY?si=i_idewTc7x5gcmbJ

[long gust]

Could only work with the German faction since they were the only ones to actually implement AA guns into their arsenal for infantry on infantry combat because ya know war crimes are funny

[inland wave]

Yeh I’m no history buff so I wasn’t sure how inclusive it was to the other factions. Mortars could be cool tho

[agile cypress]

Heavy machine guns for the other factions.

[inland wave]

That would be cool

[quiet veldt]

How is this a war crime?

[brisk aspen]

Mortars

[harsh ore]

That's how you would do it. Germans get the flak 38, Americans the browning machine gun, British the Vickers, Russians the DShK. for the MG emplacements they could have sandbags in front of them alongside aerial camo nets, the flak 38 could be surrounded by sandbags much like the one featured in COH2

[quiet veldt]

How about the Vickers .50 for the British? I’m not sure how often they were used for infantry ground use, nor how many were actually produced, but this weapon would be a lot more fitting with the other .50 machineguns you’ve listed instead of the .303 Vickers.

[ebon gust]

They don’t all need an equivalent. Each faction could have its differences. It also gives better variety. So Germans could have one thing while other factions have something else that’s different

[harsh ore]

What else would you suggest? I mean the Bofors for the Brits would be sick, then Soviets didn't have many heavy machine type weapons other than the DShk or the PM 1910 and the Americans the browning or Vickers. It would be like a heavy weapons loadout for high LVL engineer with a cap of maybe 2 per team. These weapons are asymmetric enough but I don't see any other possibilities other than the ones listed for a heavy machine style weapon system for each team

[arctic prawn]

There's is not WW2 game without these 🛐

[ebon gust]

I mean literally anything doesn’t even have to be deployables. Like Germans can build a 20mm cannon but then Americans have the garand. Cromwell should be medium tank with light tank speed. Just a bunch of different stuff you can do. Everything doesn’t have to mirror each other

[harsh ore]

Gotcha. I agree with that 100%. vehicles could reflect their real life characteristics/penetration and armour values; fuel costs could be altered accordingly. Some faction specific vehicles would be dope too, like the wirbelwind for Germany and the KV-8 flame tank for USSR for example

[inland wave]

I’m glad you guys can actually invision this functioning cuz I don’t know many weapons but I thought the idea itself would be interesting if in some way it worked. Even though this probably won’t be added in the near future, I hope mortars are considered as a replacement for artillery in a patch at some point.

[brisk aspen]

Amen

[agile cypress]

Maybe mortors and an artillary tank class of some sort. SPG has bigger explosion radius and the mortars are more portable and faster/easier to get ammo resupplied.

[inland wave]

I hope they atleast add mortars sometime in the future

[thick temple]

How is that a warcrime but artillery is not?

[long gust]

Who knows

[inland wave]

I want them to add parachutes so I can commit REAL war crimes

[polar siren]

Mortars could be a support unlock and give em like 4 rounds and they have to set up like an mg and dial in like arty but have a shorter range

[inland wave]

I don’t know how a mortar works in real life but I would like to see stuff like that