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Jump back to quoted post29 Feb 2020, 07:09 AMAerohank

Buffing panther armor also makes it better against everything else, and I don't think it needs that just because the Jackson is too good.

Jump back to quoted post28 Feb 2020, 04:18 AMSerrith

What... rangers with thompsons who close on LMG42 grens massacre the grens.

Unless the grens are vet 3 and full health, and the rangers are vet 0 with prior damage.

Jump back to quoted post26 Feb 2020, 04:33 AMCODGUY

So I'm thinking about units available to USF as alternatives to Riflemen the three are:

Pathfinders
Assault Engineers
Cavalry Riflemen

All are horrendously over priced, none are particularly good combat units.


Pathfinders have some useful abilities with a large sight range, ability to place beacons and cloaking ability. They are poor combat units however and cost an astounding 290 MP so I can't see them as a viable alternative to Riflemen.

Assault Engineers are also quite expensive at 280 MP, same cost as Riflemen but are pretty poor combat units as well especially at that price, they also seem to scale very poor and become less and less viable the longer the game goes on, in fact after the first 5-10 minutes they seem useless. They cost the same as Assault Grenadiers and you'd think they'd have comperable combat preformance but that they do not. Their repair and construction abilities are redundant to RETs.

Cavalry Riflemen arrive at 1 CP so I guess for that reason alone you really couldn't use them as a Riflemen replacement but more of a Riflemen supplement. They aren't a particularly good combat unit in and of themselves but they are much better than the other two afore mentioned units. They preform best when fighting inside an M3 halftrack due to their very squishy nature. Their AT satchel alone makes them a fairly good unit but they are too weak to be an effective CQB unit on their own.

So really we're still stuck with the dumb Riflemen, Riflemen, Riflemen, LT/CPT build order. I hate having more than two Riflemen because they bleed your MP dry and are terrible later in the game and take up valuable pop and MP for better infantry units like Paratroopers or Rangers.

Jump back to quoted post25 Feb 2020, 13:20 PMFelinewolfie

I think vet 3 allied infantry should be 100% immune to vet 3 MG42 / Vet 5 OKW FLAK AA truck.
100% immune to both dmg AND suppression. Should bouncing all bullets.
Because units should always be immune to their counters.
Especially core non-commander units. Don't you agree?

Making Panthers immune to AT would mean they're immune to any counter.