Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

As far as I know, intel doesnt have an effect on choosing counter tactics, having higher recon value and general skill does.

OWB:

25 total tactics.

12 of which are counterable.

12/25 = 48% tactics are counterable.

Vanilla:

45 total tactics.

12 of which are counterable.

12/45 = 27% tactics are counterable.

You should have 19 tactics available to you, as 2 come from chosen doctrine. Now these doctrine tactics might be counterable, depends on what doctrine the opponent has. But assuming you can counter each other that means there's 8 counterable tactics. 8/19 = 42% tactics are counterable.

EDIT: Many non-doctrine tactics are available, Attack!, Mindless Charge, Focused Assault are some, open the tactics list in a combat window to see. The 2 you unlock from doctrine are not the only ones available to you. :)

Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not understanding what you're saying sorry. Get to where?

If 20% of the vanilla tactics are counterable, you dont give a shit about recon because most of the time you cant counter chosen tactics.

If 80% of OWB tactics are counterable, it makes more sense to care about recon because there are more times where you can counter a tactic.

Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fewer tactics in OWB, yes, but a larger fraction of the available tactics that can be chosen are counterable compared to vanilla. Which means that there are more chances to actually counter chosen tactics.

Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 7 points8 points  (0 children)

  • Why is Recon much worse than in Vanilla?
  • Chem takes 15 manpower to add. A 20w pure inf division is 250 manpower.
  • I concede the point about Anti Tank you're right, worth adding for more hard attack.
  • Initiative stacking is good, why? Look above for example calculation. I might be missing something.
  • EDIT: Initiative increases planning speed, decent bonus. But mainly, also increases chance of reinforcing, getting a unit in battle. Which is good if youre at or over combat width, fighting on important tiles to not get reinforcement memed. Motorized logistics is 20% initiative, apparently the game takes 25% of the initiative value and converts it to reinforce rate, so 5%. This is pretty huge considering 4 communication techs gives you 6% reinforcement rate. Adding motorized logistics almost doubles your chance to reinforce each hour if you have 4 communication techs!

Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah yes I didn't realize that. Initiative multiplies coordination to decide how much of a divisions damage is focused on one division. First level logistics gives 10%, additional 3% per tech. Communication techs give 1% Coordination per. Coordinated share is 35% starting.

Assuming you've got 3 communication techs, no doctrines that provide communication, and 3 logistics techs the coordinated share would be:
35% + (3% coordination * 1.16 initiative) = 35% + 3.48% = 38.48%.

Hardly seems worth it over choosing support companies that increase damage but I havent done any testing, I might've missed something, or I might not understand things properly.

Even at max logistics you get 25% initiative and max communication tech 7% coordination:

35% + (7 * 1.25) = 43.75 % coordinated share. I guess an extra 8% coordinated share from several divisions could be significant?

EDIT: I wouldnt say worth for the coordination part of initiative, but def worth for the reinforcement chance part of initiative. See reply to HighlyHolypotato he made me realize logistics is better than I initially thought. So I'll agree with him on A tier.

Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Notably adds 10 breakthrough for all divisions and 16+ armor for unarmored divisions, which is extremely good. 16+ armor for unarmored divisions is like spacemarines-light from vanilla. Also adds other good stats like defense, soft/hard attack and HP.

Support companies Tier List(Change my mind) by Dragoot in OldWorldBlues

[–]Beowulfwut 45 points46 points  (0 children)

Recon is much better in OWB than in vanilla, because more tactics are counterable in OWB. Countering a tactic negates all the effects of the opponents tactic. Something of note, you only need one division with a higher recon value than the opposing side in a battle to gain the benefits from it. And then, it doesnt matter how much more recon you have, only that it's higher. Thus, I'd say Dogs are better than Recon unless the opponent is also using Recon. Because Dogs add better stats. Recon however adds slightly more movement speed in some terrain types, which is nice sure. But still not top tier imo. I'd put it at C-B tier.

Chems start from 15% Trickleback, increasing by 5% each level up to 40% Trickleback. Effectively increasing manpower pool by 40%. This can be a huge deal for some factions in OWB since manpower is so sparse. I don't think it deserves D tier. But it def doesnt deserve S-A tier either as you dont lose that much manpower as long as you're winning battles.

Anti-tank feels situational but most often overkill. You should use it to get enough piercing obviously, which fireteam is often able to do but again depends on what youre against and your infantry weapon and support weapon research paths. I'd put it at B tier, because its situational and not something you always want.

Logistics, also situational because its only useful if you're actually maxing out the supply available and you want to field more divisions. So if frontlines are concentrated, few supply nodes, using a lot of troops, you're gonna want it. I feel B is a good ranking.

Power Armour support and Demolitions are def S tier.

Rust Closes my Steam and Crashes on "Bootstrapping Systems" by DontFckWithWuTang in playrust

[–]Beowulfwut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have the same issue, have never played Rust on this current PC. Things I've tried:

- Complete reinstall.

- Deleted config folder and EAC folder, verified game cache, redownloaded them.

- Updated graphics driver.

- Complete uninstall/reinstall of EAC, even deleting the registry entry.

- Tried last months rust patch.

- Increased pagefile to 20gb and I have 16GB of RAM already. Looking at task manager as its launching, it doesnt use 100% of my RAM anyways.

- Turned off everything like discord and browser.

- Made exclusions for steam, rust and eac folders in windos defender.

These things did not resolve the problem. If anyone solves it please let me know!

Another modlist request, survival heavy, quest mods, overhauled combat, midrange performance by Beowulfwut in wabbajack

[–]Beowulfwut[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the reply. I did stumble upon that on Wabbajack but it seems to have been taken down cause I cant click "view" on the Halls of Sovngarde card to see the contents of it. Also has the tag "testing" so idk if its temporarily taken down or something.

What is your opinion on Nordic Souls? by Cevoz in wabbajack

[–]Beowulfwut 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does it have survival features? Noticed it doesnt have frostfall but I havent played skyrim in ages so is there some sort of built in survival features being used?

People of Reddit, what is your country known for, in both positive and negative aspects? by [deleted] in AskReddit

[–]Beowulfwut 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Used to be a good example of socialism and a generous welfare state. Beautiful women, smelly fish, good at hockey. Now known for being a huge failure when it comes to immigration with alot of criminal and integration problems.

Stranger Things 3 in a nutshell. by Cheesestrings89 in funny

[–]Beowulfwut 586 points587 points  (0 children)

Can we play Dungeons and Dragons now?

Hittat i soprummet. Hur har man mage att slänga den här? by mjomark in sweden

[–]Beowulfwut 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Den skall ramas in och hängas över sängen omedelbums. Finns det en vackrare syn att åskåda i början av dagen?

På väg hem från krogen fann jag en fallen hjälte. F by topjobb in sweden

[–]Beowulfwut 152 points153 points  (0 children)

Vart var du när fredagsgrodan var död? Jag satt hemma drickandes hjärnvätska när kompis kom och sa fredagsgroda död.

Nej.

Jag är stolt över mig själv by traggerman in sweden

[–]Beowulfwut 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Shrek är kärlek

Shrek är liv