Profile of turbotortoise

and you get a PaK 40, and you get a PaK 40, and you get a PaK 40,

I've never understood the P2W argument for CoH2, the one exception being the original tiger ace, and I certainly side with GhostTX regarding the state of balance.

Go back to vCoH and you'll be thankful for the sort of survivability one has in CoH2. vCoH was punishing, run a squad into an MG, god forbid, over a road? They've had it. Mortar suppression, 221/2's, Paras, my lord.

CoH2 takes artistic and inspirational license from vCoH. Scale and particularly tech tree flow is much different, CoH2 features a much more linear progression. I get the sense that execution matters much more in CoH2, in that, vCoH was a lot more lenient and flexible regarding army composition, and timings, you had more options and more solutions were viable (excluding the OF UK... ) ironic considering the amount of commanders available in CoH2 vs. the Company system.

Now; however, in CoH2, If one misses key timings, shock units don't do enough damage or are routed, you hamstring yourself trying to troll with a goofy commander-- you may as well pack it in.

So I guess; in analogy, play the OF UK, if they feel fun, ie. Lt -> Cpt. -> Stuart -> Paras -> Cromwell -> Win interests you, I think you'll enjoy this incarnation. That being said, there is nothing else on the market that blends psudorealism and psudo-squad level tactics with cinematic qualities in as tasty a way as CoH2 at the moment.

I don't see this as hypothetically viable as one does not really have the staying power on the field, nor do they have the capping power. Also a Bren Gun Carrier/AEC will sort of laugh at your audacity.

May I direct you to Paul A.D's recent Wehrmacht games vs. USF for a textbook CAS display.

I swore I could make the USF Reconnaissance commander work.

I was wrong.

When I think about utopian scenarios like this I go against the popular and reasonable opinion that armies should be balanced and competitive and commanders should add flavour. When CoH2 was announced I thought that a commander would force you to play a certain way, and the game was going to be asymetrically balanced like a card game, relying on counter picks, maybe Blitzkrieg 3 is the game for me...