It fires a volley and kills a grand total of one or two models. You get "one or two volleys" from any other AA vehicles and you are either suppressed (Halftracks), or dead (Centaur)
Jokes aside, US have more than enough tools to deal with ostheer. Try to flank things instead of charging at things. RE has smoke, officers have smoke, mortar has smoke.
At close range you melt all except for Pgrens.
Getting BARS guarantees your win at CQB. There are no faction more rewarding to blob than USF.
Your flak halftrack can smoke out the MG bunkers and you remind him that MGs on retreat are shit. Hadn't tried it recently but I think I pulled it off once, the key thing is you cannot let him "box you in".
Vickers is the last mg that would insta-suppress anything. LOL.
Think that honor goes to Maxim, though I find Vickers always snipe one model before suppressing and is oddly accurate against retreating squads xD
I think the suppression problem with vickers is that the first targeted model kinda just die, and it doesnt suppress because it isnt firing while aiming at the next model.
I dont think the Luch is countered by Greyhound, tho it is very wipey against infantry when compared to the stuart and if it arrives too early it would act a bit like a T-70 on roids.