If you want to go inf heavy, get vickers 1st, then buy 5 man squads before any IS.
This means, when you do build IS, your getting the 5th man free, rather than spending extra MP reinforcing each squad.
I also agree nades are essential, in fact I rarely get weapon upgrades, preferring to spend my muni elsewhere.
In team games, brits can get ruined super early by many things, sometimes its really worth getting an early bren and sticking an IS in to gain some early aggression.
But by converting, you are losing ressources overall.. I can understand getting a few early flamers and mines early, but once you get a luchs id be more temped not to convert.
I think early kubel pressure is best way to open atm. I like to follow with flak HT, medic truck, then Oswind. One of the great things with JLI is they dont need muni sinking into them unlike lots of other inf.
In the new patch, its not a bad thing removing conversion, because now they have full ressource income. Only 'restriction' is not having caches, which isnt the end of the world.
-blobs backed up with an AT gun pose a huge threat, since you can't suppress them, as the MG34 is still no stock unit. Looks like you still have always rely on Luftwaffe support for competitive 1vs1 games.
Flak HTs should be more useful for crowd control? Especially now there is no early kuble+ s pio harras. Although ATGs make them a bit redundant later on.
It can only be good removing supression from ISGs though.. that was annoying as hell.
The sniper is a bit overpowered with how it can counter scout cars, but the brits will really hurt without another snare option.
My guess, is that it will force a couple piat purchases early, but thats barely even a soft counter against scout cars which can kite and dodge easily.
Forcing an AEC purchase just for the sake of a cheap 222, is no good either.
Most of the changes look welcome to me, though Ive not played the mod.
Moving the snare ability of the sniper to Vet1 (and tweaking the crits), worrys me a bit, only because Vs light vehicles, Brits would either have to get early piats, early AT gun, Boys AT Inf Section or AEC.
Ost sniper and 222 combo, will ruin brits that cannot use sniper to counter snipe.
By the way, Brits CAN assault, its that ability called... ASSAULT: 100 muni, inf squads run and fire fast, nobody uses it, but it can be devastating to use early on to pressure germans off the field.