Woah dude, maybe take a step back and reread my posts before you start accusing me of fanboyism and whatnot. You are overinterpreting what I said heavily to make it easier for you to criticize whatever you claim I have said.
What non-doc recon unit does have the OKW now that the IR-HT has been...rework?
Every faction have one: M20 for the USF, 222 for the Ostheer, T-70 for the SU, Snipers for SU,Ostheer and UKF, non-doc upgrades on vehicule and infantry for UKF.
You said that if the T-70 (with vets and recon mode) is a reco for the SU, so is the Puma (No vet or anything to make it so) for the OKW, and and I pointed out that's not really the case, you got stuck on the T-70 and I had to rectify what you said about it, I don't "keep bringung up the T-70".
The Puma is a recon unit with increased sight range just like the AEC. You even mention the M20 of USF but then say the Puma were not a recon unit? Why? OKW still has the IR HT (although the unit does not appear to be very good, I agree on that), they get veterancy sight on their Volks. If you want you could also count the camo of Luchs and JP4, although I personally find these abilities slightly lacking. Again, Axis gain recon through doctrines if that is what they want to focus on.
To point it out again: No one said that OKW should not have recon or that Spec Ops should not have any recon option at all.
The way you "rectified" me was by saying that you
failed to find a similar use to the Puma but I don't play it often either
I'm not even suppose to tell you why the flares should remain the same, it's up to you to tell us why it should get nerf, because right now aside from "uncounterable" like more than 70% of commander capabilities there is no argument. You just complain because it is a UNIQUE ABILITY OF ONE COMMANDER of the OKW, and so it must be OP because Ally don't get acces to it, exactly like Axis don't have a single Self-propelled gun. Taking one ability without considering it's place within the whole faction/game is just pointless and that's what this thread is doing.
Yes you are. People over the last years have made good points as to why offmap flares are badly designed and do not benefit the mechanics of CoH2.
The offmap flares are uncounterable and don't require any more input than what the community has termed "skill planes" for a good reason. Please provide reason why this assessment is false. Please provide me a list of your 70% of uncounterable commander abilities that require at similar (very small) amount of input, otherwise I'll just mark this down as the exaggeration that it is until proven I am wrong.
I'll skip the rant and name calling and leave it to the last point you try to make here: the "UNIQUE ABILITY OF ONE COMMANDER". Which is first factually untrue because I said multiple times that UKF flares should go as well. And second this argument tells me what? That an ability has to be at least on two different commanders to become OP/badly designed/...? I don't get it. JLI got horribly overbuffed once, you also can find them only on one commander. It was still good that they got nerfed and now found a decent place in the game. We also got a valentine spam once after the unit and commander were reworked. The Brit emplacement doctrine was pure cancer due to their automatrons. This ability only exists on that commander to. Now would you argue all these just unique abilities on a single commander as well?
And the final point:
Two Allied factions get self propelled artillery: UKF and USF. Coincidentally these are the factions that don't have stock rocket artillery. And coincidentally only UKF can combine this with low-input recon, a point which I criticized here. Stop falsely claiming that I criticize the offmap flares because they belong to OKW.
Ostheer sees and lot of play isn't revelant since there is 2 Axis faction.
OKW seems to be considered the worst faction in 1vs1.
The UTT2 tournament, where those "flares" should be OP and give immediate victory according to this very thread, just showed how much the axis side got destroyed in every match (you can save you some time by just watching the final on Stormless channel).
Yes. Which tells us that OKW might have issues. Tournament stats are a completely different topic, so I won't dive into it. But even according to your logic, flares did not fix it. So the problem seems to be outside of flares, arguing that OKW might need different changes. Which is actually a good thing because if a faction needs to rely on a unique ability of a single commander, then the faction's design is flawed by itself, completely independent of the commander choice.