General Traits Ideas

[FunPolice749]

Of all the things PzC 2 has added to the series, I believe the commander traits picked at the start of each campaign is the single best thing added. I love how much customization it can give to various breakthroughs and I really hope we see more done with it. I think the best thing was simply adding more to that list! So I'm starting a thread where everyone can start giving out ideas for more commanders traits whether that's positive or negative. I've had several so I'll start.

Urban Specialist - Positive Trait
2 points - All Friendly units get +3 close defense.
Allows people to improve their city fighting power, especially useful in the major city combats such as Moscow or Stalingrad in the base campaign.

Stockpiled Munitions - Positive Trait
1 point - All units have +1 ammo
A small trait that can help units with low ammo count (like rocket artillery) could benefit greatly for providing support fire or could be useful on those rampaging tanks that keep over running enemy units.

Recovery Crews - Positive Trait
2 points - Whenever friendly units take damage gain a small amount of prestige and occasionally recover some equipment.
So this would be another prestige making perk but mainly helps to offset losses. I would assume this is a small percentage of the base units cost based on how much damage is taken. Plus anytime a captured equipment under your control takes damage you have a chance to get some of that added to your supply (this helps in keeping captured units a bit more usable even with a limited stock). The main idea is to help

Shock and Awe - Positive Trait
2 points - Enemy units don't fully recover from suppression at the start of their turn
A pretty powerful effect that can help make enemy units a bit less of threat after you suppress them. I would say enemy units would keep around 20% of their suppression (so if you suppress 5 points of enemy unit then 1 would remain suppressed after the start of the AI turn but this could be adjusted to be better/worse as needed).

Overworked Transports - Negative Trait
+2 points - Transports cost +1 core slot
This would be a pretty massive change as it suddenly makes all units that rely on transports to be mobile to cost at least 1 more core slot. Artillery, AA, AT, and Infantry would all be affected by this.

Poor Coordination - Negative Trait
+1 Point - Mass attacks are less effective.
Mass attacks can be pretty important in getting good attacks so making these less effective can make it hard to really beat up those scary units like heavy tanks or well dug in engineers.

Poor Morale - Negative Trait
+1 Point - Units under half strength are much more likely to retreat unless in green entrenchment.
Could cause serious problems in a frontline being broken for people that try not to replace their forces as much as possible.

Limited Heroes - Negative Trait
+2 Points - Units can only have 1 hero assigned at a time.
This is a sort of compromise between people looking to still use heroes but don't like the uber units that can come around from that.

Anyway those are my current ideas I'm probably come think up more of them but I also want to hear other peoples ideas. There are surely some awesome ideas I haven't thought of yet.
If anything hopefully this could inspire the devs to look into adding more traits because I think those are so awesome and I would hate to see them left to die.

[Scrapulous]

To the End - positive trait
2 (?) points - Units never surrender

[Mojko]

Very nice ideas . Here is my take on it:

Rivals - Positive Trait
2 points - Each time you get a random hero at the start of a scenario you get to pick one from three random heroes instead.

Has no impact on heroes awarded during scenario.

[FunPolice749]

Only 2 comments? Come on everyone, I know there has to be more ideas out there than that! Here’s another couple from me but I hope more people post there own ideas

Diverse Training Positive Trait
1 point - Units don’t lose experience when switching unit types.
Allows a greater flexibility of an army to adapt what it needs when it needs it. Makes getting those elite Tank Destroyers with Overrun way easier to get going among other things

Denied Spoils Negative Trait
+2 Points - Players don’t get prestige or equipment from surrenders.
A pretty large prestige loss for players while also denying them sometimes useful upgrades. It can be said this is kinda the opposite of Europe on a Shoestring but likely less extreme than that

[sebb81]

Veterans - Positive Trait
2 points - Every new bought unit starts with 1 star experience

[sebb81]

WW I Veteran - neutral trait
Tanks loose 1 movement point, infantry gets 1 movement point

[Stormchaser]

Oversized Army
Positive Trait
Overstrength Units gain -1 Slot Size. -4 Points
Not sure how to phrase the skill description properly, but basically counters the first +1 Slot Size your units get from Overstrength, allowing the player to take more advantage of that mechanic.

Understrength
Negative Trait
Maximum base Strength of Units is reduced by 2 (IE Infantry at 13 and everything else at 8 Strength). +3 Points.
Can be compensated for somewhat by Overstrengthing, but doing so naturally increases unit Slot Size.

[Tassadar]

Oversized Army
Positive Trait
Overstrength Units gain -1 Slot Size. -2 Points
Not sure how to phrase the skill description properly, but basically counters the first +1 Slot Size your units get from Overstrength, allowing the player to take more advantage of that mechanic.

Understrength
Negative Trait
Maximum base Strength of Units is reduced by 2 (IE Infantry at 13 and everything else at . +2 Points.
Can be compensated for somewhat by Overstrengthing, but doing so naturally increases unit Slot Size.

I wonder how viable these are with the costs, but also exact interaction with game mechanics. Oversized Army seems to be somewhat overpowered in terms of how many slots it actually saves - I dare say it's worth even 4 points. On the other spectrum Understrength seems hugely limiting and worthy of at least one point more.

[Stormchaser]

Oversized Army
Positive Trait
Overstrength Units gain -1 Slot Size. -2 Points
Not sure how to phrase the skill description properly, but basically counters the first +1 Slot Size your units get from Overstrength, allowing the player to take more advantage of that mechanic.

Understrength
Negative Trait
Maximum base Strength of Units is reduced by 2 (IE Infantry at 13 and everything else at . +2 Points.
Can be compensated for somewhat by Overstrengthing, but doing so naturally increases unit Slot Size.

I wonder how viable these are with the costs, but also exact interaction with game mechanics. Oversized Army seems to be somewhat overpowered in terms of how many slots it actually saves - I dare say it's worth even 4 points. On the other spectrum Understrength seems hugely limiting and worthy of at least one point more.

I admittedly couldn't remember if the Point Costs went higher than 1 or 2 points, so just set them to the highest I remembered. I can change them pretty easily though.