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In recent patches the some of the USF off map got buffed:

Time On Target

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240mm Artillery

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M83 Cluster Mines
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While the new tech design and new abilities have made USF have easier access to indirect fire support.

What makes these abilities even stronger is that fact that USF get stock recon planes with the Major that allows cheap targeting.

Imo given all these changes the USF should be look at.

Suggested changes:
Passive sprint changed into an active timed ability

Shared veterancy removed from all officer (non USF also) accept Major. Officers do enough damage to to gain veterancy on their own.

Major reckon planes removed, the ability makes USF off map to powerful

Major barrage removed, USF already have plenty of indirect fire options

Major now has access to binoculars an timed ability that lock him in place but gives him direction "focus sight" with 45-50 range.

Captain "supervise" move to Major, now can be used on ambulance and increase healing rate by 10% can be used only if the retreat point is not setup. Captain is front line unit and has little reason to be in rear.

Captain now start with AT rifle-grenade and has access to normal grenades, the unit is currently inferior to LT.

All officer have smoke grenades/grenades/barrage on shared CD.


The suggestions aim at:
Adjusting USF off map with removing the easy targeting from Major reckon

Solidifying major as a Support unit being useful without being in the front line

Increasing the utility of Captain compared to LT.

Armor Company

Heavy Cavalry Company

Mechanized Company

Armor Company:
Imo Armor company has the Dozer replaced by Easy8.

or/and the M10 replaced the an 76mm upgrade for Sherman.
The upgrade is free or has low cost removes the HE rounds but increases the penetration of AP round by about 20, serving as a stop gap to Easy8s.

Assault engineer have their price reduced to 250 but become 4 entities, they can upgrade either with 1 flamer or 2 Thompson +1 entity.
Heavy Cavalry Company:
Agree with removing rangers one could replace them or the 'Riflemen Field Defences' with m10 serving as a stop gap before calling the Pershing.

Mechanized Company:
I think that the commander should focus more into light vehicle play. For that reason I would like to see a different version of refit.
Unit can not be removed from the map and be refitted for new at a cost when tech requirement are met.
For instance:
WC-51 start with MG (range to 35 remove mark target and barrage) can now be refitted for an M3 or an ambulance
M-20 can now be refitted for greyhound
Stuart can now be refitted for an m10.

Another change that might be tested is 76mm Sherman become identical to stock Sherman at cost and stats but has HVAP rounds option (20-30 penetration) instead of HE.

USF currently has a few doctrines crammed full of so much stuff they can never really use all of it, and a lot of doctrines languishing behind.

I agree, one should aim to make all comander of a faction of a similar power level.

Airborne Company

Recon Support Company

This 2 commander currently overlap too much and continue to do so even with these suggestion.

One could try:
Airborne Company
0.50/M1 merged into 1 ability or even making closer to the osttrupen ability. Since the USf tech redesign there is little reason for taking up 2 slots.

Beacon can become more important to the doctrine adding a cost to built and mini map info becoming a timed ability and allowing a another timed ability reducing the Target size of paras.

One could add a bombing run either similar to Luftwaffe incendiary or the IL-2 HE bombing run or an ability similar to mark Target.

Recon Company
With all the changes to this commander imo there are simply somethings that should removed:
Out goes I&R Pathfinders and Airdropped combat group

Riflemen can now upgrade with forward observation kit, takes 1-2 slots increase sight by 5-10 (if it 5 another 5 when in cover), 2 scoped carbines with higher long DPS (instead of critical kills) can now use flares, can now call-in 30 mu smoke barrage.

All officer can now call in mortar barrage.

Call in unit 'screaming eagles' representing the defender of Bastonge, basically support Paras as cheaper call-in unit and without the added MU cost of the pack howitzer. Once could also try lowering the number of entities to 5 and reducing the target size.

One could replace the raid tactics better suited for mechanized company with the m10 if there was really a
need for it.
With changes there would be less overlap

The problem of the M36 is that when it was buffed it vs everything:
HP more durable vs all targets
Damage from 200-160 faster ROF better vs mediums since no more overkill and less time to kill them.
More penetration better vs Heavies/Super heavies because of less bounces.

One could test keeping the HP and reverting the damage/ROF/Penetration changes and see how it goes.

You keep bringing up doctrinal USF tanks vet 3...

Not really. Out of whole pare I simply used 1 sentence to pointed out that 76mm veterancy bonuses are OP, and they are.
76mm Sherman is a very cost efficient medium tank.