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And what is more efficient, 5 man squads or Brens? Also how many Brens?

I have noticed that Vickers seem to take casualties across the entire squad whereas rifles seem to lose health from individual men too. You'll often see a Vickers with three men left but very little health between them, whereas IS taking small arms fire tend to lose health from the tail end charlie. I'm not yet sure whether this is due to garrisoned Vickers tending to take IDF though. Could do with testing it.

This also has an effect, as whilst the Lee Enfields the weapons crews use suck they still do damage. The MG42 is a clearly superior weapon on stats alone but the Vickers wins out due to the rifles rather than SMGs the crew carries, at long range anyway or when garrisoned.

Generally I'm finding that the Brits strength stems from the commanders, especially the pay ones. Still not sure what the best way to juggle infantry upgrades versus using munitions on abilities though I suspect abilities are stronger.

Relics refusal to fix the UC interests me too, it is the cheapest and most efficient unit the Brits possess in pure manpower terms ( 210MP + 6 manpower tax) hence Lanchester would suggest it is potentially the most powerful unit if used en masse. I might try crushing infantry with them, not sure whether they can or not. Devs are devious and I rather suspect they know something we don't.

All these complaints yet even with the AEC buff it feels like a real gamble to build a FRP as Brits, when I do it's 50/50 whether I regret it or not.

I can only think of a couple of games where a well placed and timely FRP made a difference, but then I tend to veto the large maps in 1v1.

The OKW flak trucks acts as a FRP I think? That seems to make a huge difference but it is organically defended and a tough blighter to kill. The Brit tent's placement seems like an art form, too close and easy meat to kill, too far back and has little effect, garrison bonus is only useful if you use lots of emplacments...

It might just be a matter of playstyle or a force multiplier for those who are rather better than I at unit preservation but there are a lot of things I would rather do with 450 manpower.

I've had a couple lose to Luchs... Though I do suck. RNG gods at play?

Kiting Volks backed up by a pit is now an absolute pleasure.

Raketenwerfers are nasty though. Haven't seen too many of them before...

With the AEC now useful bolstering earlier might be a good option. 5 men will beat 4 quicker, as Lanchester applies.

The best comparison would be between equal forces, 4 x 5 or 5 x 4.

The former costs 1400MP upfront and 52.5MP per minute.
The latter costs 1270MP upfront and 48MP per minute with 35 FU.

You could remove 280MP from both to represent the starting unit.

A five man squad however is more than 50% more effective than a 4 man one purely in combat terms, and also has additional benefits such as increased repair rate, build time and both veterancy retention and earning. Also team weapon crewing, resilience and overmatching.

Four man on the other hand are better for capping and can be in more places at once.

Certainly bolstering would be more efficient than building a fifth IS, quite possibly a 4th too though I suspect most people plan on 3 plus Vickers ( which I don't think bolster effects). Delaying armour isn't quite as big a problem as it was yesterday and the 35 fuel should represent about a minute with a proper share of the map's resources.

The 35FU can be remedied with a cache for 200MP which will start to turn a profit after 12 minutes. That leaves the difference between bolstering and not to be about 70 MP, which would also turn a profit after 15:30 due to lower upkeep costs.

There are also Commandos of course, bolstering before call in the glider is an attractive proposition.

Overall I'm going to start bolstering after my first AEC and see how that goes.