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Although OP post touches many recent issues I get this feeling a lot of it comes from lack of experience and 3v3 games?
I may be wrong.

I'm really struggling with ost vs US in 1v1 as even vanilla rifles tear up grens at range in cover or whatever. On any map without clear sight lines for mg's ( which die to smoke assisted flanks and grenades) I'm quickly left with no map presence and often no units . Built up maps are worst because of garrison abuse- any tips?

I got some success against US when I used doctrine with Assault Grenadiers and StugE.

That's the feeling I get when playing against US. I might be wrong but I don't think I am. Obviously I'm not a pro player so I would like to know their opinion as well in this topic.

Anyway my general concern is that US as a whole is a faction that over performs in general. Rifles, while expensive, are too strong early game and they scale really well into late one plus they can adapt to every situation becoming very good AI units or decent AT squads. Also in latter stage of the game their dps allows them to simply walk into any kind of HMG and overwhelm it using sheer firepower.
They get a free unit every time they tech up.

US army got a bunch of light vehicles to support it's infantry giving them very strong mid game. Infamous AA truck being one of the examples although recently tone down is still very good vehicle.

Transition into late game allows them to utilize very effective and very cheap medium tanks.
Easy 8 being simply the best medium tank in the game being in the same time ridiculously cheap can almost go toe in toe with Panther. It won't take it down by itself of course but with support that's doable. If we compare the cost of both of these units (E8 and PzV) and their performance Panther gets out shadow quite significantly. E8 being call in tank will save US player teching cost what results in economy advantage allowing to save fuel for the second Sherman in a short period of time. Usually there are 2 of these when first Panther comes out.

Regular Sherman while not as effective still can be produced in great numbers and its ability to switch between AI and At rounds allows it to be quite effective all around tank. Not to the degree of E8 but that is reflected in its cost.

Finally M36, while greatly underestimated it is the best tank destroyer in the game right now. It's very mobile and delivers devastating punch of 240 damage backed up with good penetration. It is very fragile but its range allows to use hit and run tactics. Luckily for German players majority of Us users can't utilize its full potential. Jackson is also very cheap. 1226 fuel if I am not mistaken.

All this is backed up with range of howitzers, AT guns and mobile artillery.

Thinking about it it's really hard to see any major weakness with US army atm. If you consider German counterpart OKW it's limited in terms of fuel income and Wermaht is the weakest faction crippled by its over priced tech system. One could argue that US is not that strong in the late game but I don't think that's the case. Especially when you consider top level players.

Any comments?

No it can't stay the same. Some things need to be addressed.
Easy 8 for example is the best medium tank, yet for some reason it's one of the cheapest and doesn't require any tech coming at 9 cp.

enough guys could we try to keep it on topic and try to be respectful to your fellow forumites. I also don't want to hear the word fanboy (or anything like it) again, its irreverent to the topic, which is the katyusha needing a nerf. its reaching the point where i think all that can be said has been said so if this keeps up don't be surprised if this thread gets locked.

I don't think there is anything else left to say.
Every decent player already agreed Katyusha needs to be adjusted. What left is a bunch of bias players trying to defend it, being deaf to any reasoning.