Another golden thought from Jaigen.
You get Sherman to counter blob and 1-2mins after there is a Panther.
Then don't get shermann and use everything else. Double BAR, flames (on CE or on riflemen), scott, and so on. I'm not saying you defeat OKW blob with that, but you can resist to it a period of time and maybe win the game. I tried shermanns and I don't like them => I don't work with shermanns. Variants of shermann as buldozer or E8 appear to be more valuable in my opinion than the regular one. The only reason for which T4 should exist, is Jakson in my opinion and maybe scott (if you have enough resources).
In fact, OKW blob wouldn't even be OP if OKW wouldn't float such an amount of mp. Thing is, no matter how many obers or volks or whatever infantry models you kill, OKW will refit its squads and build new units quite easily. Here is the true problem. If you kill enough OKW infantry this should affect them badly. But this is a problem of faction design because OKW player has nothing else to spend his manpower on (cause of the fuel shortage) so he pumps obers and volks.
And if soviet can counter this pretty effectively with maxims, snipers, flamers, katys and - let's not forget - mortars especially 120 ones, those reaching and successfuly destroying even field deployed trucks, USF has no serious ballistic weapons. We can't count pack howitzer, mortar ht and scott among them because:
- OKW blob push - that can erase any gun/team crew including the pack howitzer. A couple of maxims with some mortar behind have a better chance to stop that than anemic USF HMGs that can get decrewed almost instantly.
- scott it's actually ineffective if OKW player is helped by an Ostheer player. Paks can reach scotts from far distance and you can't get to them if supported by OKW infantry. So you struggle to beat manpower units (pak and infantry) with a unit that cost manpower and fuel, and fail.
- mortar HT is pure shit and everybody knows it. In addition, it's doctrinal.
The only one remaining it's the PRIEST which is also doctrinal which is so slow and inacurate.