Pushka Unitcap

[Todstyak]

My previous responses to other posts has reminded me that I wanted to bring up the fairly recent unitcap brought up over the Soviet Artillery piece (Pushka 152). First I despise the excessive use of unitcaps (one of the many reasons I don't like Blitzkreig Mod). Second the unitcap doesn't seem to have a reason behind it since the piece is already gated by being doctorine specific and the Ostheer equivalent (they use the same stats but the LEHF has a smaller cool-down) can have up to 3 while the Soviets can only build one Pushka. Since the Pushka is slightly worse since it has larger coold-downs between shellings, it makes no sense being able to build less of them. Here are some solutions off the top of my head:

-No unitcaps on either arty piece
or
-Equall the unitcap for the Pushka to 3 aswell
or
-Make the two pieces even more different and change the unitcaps accordingly
and/or
-Have the Pushka's cooldown equal the LEHF's

[Jeff 'Robotnik' W.]

pushka? are you talking about the 152m howotzer?


i have never heard it be called pushka before.



I think the hardcap may have been carried over from whn it was non-doctrinal, or its because its in an already artillery heavy doctrine which also includes the katyusha

[Blackbishop]

@Todstyak
It is a 122mm howitzer now. The 152mm was in older versions.

[Todstyak]

@Todstyak
It is a 122mm howitzer now. The 152mm was in older versions.

So what about any changes/ i know the promise of Katyushas later in the tree seems like a compelling reason to cap only 1 122 (the 152s were named 'Pushkas') but arty and rockets serve different purposes, if anything the cap should be mix of Katyushas AND 122s so you can choose how much of either you want out of a total unit cap. I'd rather just increase or lift the 122 cap though ( i miss saying Pushka already  .... )

[Blackbishop]

Well, it seems "Pushka(Пушка)" means gun or cannon and it is likely not only used for the 152s. Otherwise Robotnik can slap me lol.

You can see the 122mm A-19 howitzer using the same term.

About the caps, you don't need more than one firebase or more than three Katyushas, it is not the point of the command tree to let the player spam arty to death, so if something else could be done is to remove the firebase and relocate it on a different tree.