I swear we have had this discussion before...
They are not meant to have everything non doc.
Said by thedarkarmadillo which is not a game designer of coh2. Yet, OKW is meant to have and even get doctrinal lefh for no reason?
It would break balance and REMOVE diversity if ANY faction had a non doc howitzer.
So prove it? Hey, come on, you need support for your argument. So having stock calliope will be fine as it is not a howitzer.
This is now many team games devolve into a grind and battle of Artillery supremacy.
So you have addressed the issue and you can simply start another thread to persuade people to remove all stock mobile heavy artillery which is one way to balance this game. But that's another story and is off topic in this thread.
If USF has a hard point they have a number of great tools. They have 3 indirect fire options (mortar, pak howi, M8) as well as an off map barrage on the major. Learn to use the tools you have, especially when they are as good as they are instead of whining about what you don't have.
Again, they works differently from mobile heavy artillery and serve different purpose. Pack and M1 mortar is a redundant for each other. It is as simple as you cant replace stuka with pack howitzer. There are situations that a player needs a stuka instead of isg and USF get screwed if he pick the wrong commander which OKW players never do.
The only faction with a similar number of indirect fire options are the Soviet (because of the zis and su76) brits have all of 2, wehr have 2 and okw have 2. If any faction needs nondoc rocket arty it's the bloody brits who only have an immobile pit and unreliable base howitzer. But instead you are whining about the faction tied with most options because of a tool in a faction with half as many choices.
Ost vehicles smoke is BEHIND A DOCTRINE but usf has it on many of their tanks
All other factions need a doctrine to call in off map arty, but usf has it stock.
All other factions need a doctrine to heal their armour without engineers, but usf has it stock
No other faction getsfree squads, except usf
No other faction has stock smoke on ANY of their infantry, but usf gets it on all the squads they don't even have to spend time building!
No other faction can increase the build speed of their units, but usf has that ability on their free unit!
If another faction wants recon they can call a strike from they need a doctrine but usf gets it on a free squad!
Wuit whining about what you don't have and learn to use what you do
All factions are different. I have faith that given your hard on for USF, given the time you'll figure out how to use them.
A whole paragraph that can be concluded in "Every factions have its perks and cons" which is an utterly useless argument that just describing what asymmetrical design is which everyone here knows about that and have 0 value to make a discussion meaningful. I even have a longer list what OKW owns while the others doesn't. You can simply spam this meaningless argument in every balance thread that you dont like, because the meaning behind this argument is simple which is saying that you cant balance it in anyway since they are different faction which is contradicted to the balance purpose of this section.