Rifles are definitely relevant to paths spam. That like saying volks arent relevant if someone made a thread about fussies
Even tho paths aren't meant as a mainline like fussies, ppl are certainly using them that way. Thats the key to playing airborne, build as few rifles as possible
Of coarse the cost efficiency of Riflemen and of Pathfinder is relevant as to what one will choose to build.
If Pathfinder are more cost efficient than Riflemen does not necessarily mean that Riflemen are an UP unit as some people seem to claim.
Both can be true. That's not a contradictory statement to "rifles aren't cost effective"
And again its not proof that Riflemen are an UP.
There is little to support the claim that USF as a faction is weak vs Ostheer or to support that riflemen are UP.
In any case Pathfinders should be fixed.