Nowadays most people used to put BAR on the Captain anyway, due to the lack of AI in the old tier, no reason not to get it because you do reload the BAR often enough.
It's much easier to survive with Pathfinders until you get Paratroopers now, just double upgrade a tier for the CPs, you can go Captain and drop the MG to man it with Pathfinders for selfspotting more easily now too.
Did you find that there were issues with autotargeting with 76MM Sherman or other units ? I've heard that some units may or may not be bugged with Prioritize Vehicles and I'm itching to try new USF but don't want to if its bugged.
It worked fine for me, I had no issues with Prioritize Vehicles, the only issue I had was with the Upgunned Sherman was the Smoke being really unresponsive.
I tried Mecha yesterday with 2 Rifles and 2 CavRifles, one car and 2 light vehicles, Stuart+MHT. It worked pretty alright, putting the munitions on the LT Bazooka and 2 Thompsons + Truck MGand some leftovers for satchels. Could use refinement but it did fine, given the Upgunned Sherman with HVAP stood up to the OKW PZ4 with HEAT! It was an even match.
When 223 is locking down territory and the territory it's securing gets capped by the enemy, it can no longer pack up because the ability is disabled with error message 'needs to be in friendly territory'.
So this is why that guy left it to die yesterday... Hilarious.
It's good.
You got options and can come up with some interesting builds, depending less on 3-4 Rifles because you couldn't tech and floated too much MP early on, will keep testing today.