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Or do what should have been done since day 1-make it a side cost upgrade.
OKW is getting enough freebies in tech and utility as it is.
No need for them to be that special snowflake all the time.

I actually agree; it could cost munitions, and upgrading could have you go without an Ober or Luchs/ Panther/ now P4J in the meantime. T2 HQ truck needs to do this in order to get forward retreat.

Like HelpingHans said, players need to respond to sniper threats, and the options shouldn't be limited to using a vehicle to find and kill it to avoid casualties. IMO, the ideal infantry counter snipers are whatever largest squad you can use on hand, therefore, any sniper like Soviet Scout Sniper should have a bigger problem facing Panzerfusiliers than Grenadiers. But really, it's the same problem as if that sniper was facing a group of Osttruppen (or at least, the disparity should be smaller).
In any case you'd probably still have the same problem by virtue of Sturmoffizier's Obersoldaten retinue and his two anti-infantry abilities.

It would be cool if Relic gave the UKF a T0 infantry transport like the M3A1. Maybe this could help vs the Sniper?

I have no reason to believe Relic won't have a Bren Carrier unit as UKF variant to clown car. The only faction that doesn't have this is OKW, and they make up for that with Volksblob + T2 forward retreat (and Kubels, if you factor out transportation).

Bren Carrier was a rather staple feature for British in CoH1, I don't see why it wouldn't be stock unit, especially given it's light armour. IMO a call-in Bren would be a dumb idea.

I'm sure once Sept 3rd rolls around people will have completed some sort of rudimentary guide, though if that's the case be prepared for some inaccuracies in case Relic changed some things post-alpha program.

It is more or less my main critique; when I first read the changes my reaction was "WTF what's the point of EAD and playing as OKW if the meta is really just same as Ostheer?"

End of the day even with the small stat chances in armour, what you get is not so much an OKW version of Panzer4, but rather both Axis factions revolve around the same Panzer4 unit. Hence my suggestion that the characteristics of OKW's Panzer4, while remaining a medium tank, ought to come with a few differences, namely in abilities, like say having integral Emergency Repairs or Panzer Commander (though granted, seeing as how those doctrinal abilities themselves are rather limited, those are hardly the best ones to choose).

This is your definition of the OKW faction, not the "official design".

What is the "official design"? Or am I right to assume there really isn't one?

Improving gameplay (i.e. bridging the mid/late game gap for OKW) should never be achieved by commander choice. The OKW PIV as introduced right now is no meta-breaking Ubertank, its just an additional option to compensate for the lack of a fundamental asset every other faction has (medium armor, late game AI armor). I dont understand your argument against it.

Improving gameplay IS acheived by commander choice, like it or not. I don't personally think that's a bad thing, though if it is the ONLY way to improve gameplay then that's something else.
If there was a problem with the lack of medium armour, then perhaps OKW was flawed from the start. Which I don't agree with.
My argument against it you don't understand simply because you think pretty much anything you deem necessary should be core units, not found through doctrines. I don't agree with that assessment, since IMO the OKW works fine without it, and frankly being an alternative to Panther and Puma more or less proves that, it's there as a choice, but no loner as a commander choice. But there's a pretty big difference between 210 fuel 2x P4Js and 1x P4J for 135...a difference that wouldn't occur if they merely adjusted that commander, alongside lower CP of course. IMO that was the real problem with Elite Armoured- the actual unit call-in comes too late, competes with Panther, and units are more a medium-late, not late-KT.

Which are all players? And relic? Who does not benefit from this change? Even allies-only super fanboys wont constantly lose their games to PIV spam now.

I'm a player. I don't see this as the best choice in design. Therefore no, not all players. You can can exaggerate all you want about majority or most, but not all. A change that does not cause problems isn't always a positive and optimal solution.
The result of this change is that more people will use Panzer4. Nevermind being more like Ostheer than I think is necessary, but also IMO people who argued (or whined?) about lack of medium armour as OKW just didn't want to play OKW in a different manner.

On the P4J specifically, since it's clear Relic isn't going to budge about this (and they didn't back when this was first introduced, consider that), the least they can do is introduce elements to the P4J that makes it stand out more from Ostheer's P4. True it already comes with skirts, but I'd say different abilities would at least make it so you're not so much playing like Ostheer, though I can't say I have any ideas at the moment.