Profile of S73v0

A) Why do you think rifles are so special that they deserve to be amazing at both AT and AI? Name one other squad that gets to do that. What you want is not 'varying stratergies', it's called all-purpose boring ass rifle blobs

B) Rifles are tier 0 standard infantry. They're not meant to one man duke it out with elite infantry, even with upgrades. You have lieutenants for that (Dat Thompson) in the small sense and numbers in the larger scale. It's not like conscripts fare any better against them, is it?

Ummm... Rifles are the only mainline infantry US has.... Well airborne is another but they are doctrinal and I'm fine with them being anti-infantry only. Panzergrens with panzershrecks, Guards with DPs, vetted volks with panzershrecks, hell even Obersoldaten or shocks picking up a stolen shreck. Plenty of infantry that have both AI and AT. And like I said before changing weapon slots from 2 to 3 isn't going to affect much. Unless you let the US get 3*180 muni= 540+ muni all on rifle squads upgrades only then you're doing something wrong.

The other infantry that US field is Lieutenant that comes with 1 BAR and only 1 weapon slot. And captain that comes with 1 thompson and 2 bazookas and no weapon slots. So they're really not meant to duke it out with elite infantry...

I have put this proposal forth because I have had many 1v1s where I upgraded 2 weapon slots on a lot of my infantry and when the vehicles came I couldn't get bazookas because upgrading for bazookas isn't worth it for just 1 or 2. I have also found it annoying when a weapon drops I can't pick it up with the squad I have at hand and have to bring a squad from the other side of the map to pick it up. This has resulted in a lot of lost weapons to the enemy which I find frustrating. So long as there are only 2 weapon slots bazookas will continue to be under-utilized.

I am really glad that Relic has identified these issues. They're some of the most common complaints in the game atm so seeing Relic recognising the issues and working to resolve them is great to see!

I agree, this ability sucks. Much better to get BARs since everytime I get a flamethrower the guy carrying it gets shot at and explodes and kills the entire rifle squad.

If you charge in a puma at a stationary AA halftrack of course you're going to lose your puma. Use micro and abuse your range advantage. One shreck hit and there's nowhere on the map for the AA halftrack to hide. Use smoke canisters on the puma so you can get out if things don't go your way. US has no other AT options if they go lieutenant and AA halftrack for a long time so use that fact to your advantage.

Regarding the OKW AA Half-Track:

Significantly reduce it's tear down/un-setup time while leaving the setup time as it is. The issue with this unit is it's survivability not it's DPS, it's a potent unit to have witout a reasonable a setup time. It's fuel cost is fine as it is an OKW unit.

Regarding the USA Forces M15 AA Half-Track

Switching the 50.Cal Machine gun from tier 2 to tier 1 with the M15 AA Half-track sounds reasonable, that way the USA has some form of suppression. Maybe this way we could finally see the USA forces use MGs as there's no reason ATM on picking a 50.cal over the M15 AA Halft-rack.

OKW halftrack comes out faster than the AA halftrack so I think it needs to be delayed as well. It definitely needs a buff to it's survivability.

Also .50 cal and AA halftrack is in the same tier.

Vs the same guy with the same strat. Sniper was uncounterable, and pak 40s prevented any type of armoured rushes. Even if I flank the pak 40 I just get fausted and lose the sherman

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  Kyouma(US) vs Stevebud(Ost)

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Imo the sniper changes the dynamic of the Ost vs US matchup completely in the favour of Ost :/