Profile of miragefla

I remember when the German sniper had a chance at surviving at close-range and soloing wounded squads because he had 2.0 armour.

-222 being even more worse than it is now because the cannon took away the coaxial machine gun.

-Brummbar with no scatter.

-251 Half-track's machine gun was a CoH 1 tank's hull MG aka useless

-TWP able to hit moving vehicles when used by the pak.

-KV-8 absurd when it had 40 damage. Two ticks, dead.

-Soviet vision abilities granting extended vision for the ZIS, assault guns. So good back then.

-Maxims before they got all their nerfs and before the 25% received damage before received accuracy change.

-Shocks being melee infantry after the March Deployment

-IS-2 never having the same amount of HP as a Tiger until recently for some strange reason.

-Shocks needing to upgrade PPSHs. I miss those voice lines. "Now that we have our PPSHs the huns will die by the hundreds."

-General background infantry chatter for Ostheer and Soviet infantry

If Relic actually does bring the US Rangers into multiplayer down the road, then they better put effort into it and by that I mean get a new voice actor instead of using the VA of existing units. In CoH1, each and every unit had different voices, lines and etc but in CoH2, a number of units all use the same VA and in some cases, have the same exact skin despite the units are supposed to be "new" units or different.

Relic games always had a single voice actor playing several units, though it wouldn't of hurt them to ask one of the VAs in AA to do some additional VA for units that could be saved for the future.

CoH 1: Wehrmacht: MG, Mortar, Puma, Motorcycle, Ostwind, 251: one VA
US: MG, Mortar, Riflemen: one VA
US: light vehicles, ATG: one VA

Also
Coh 2:
US: Assault Engineers, Medics, Vehicle Crews: One guy

Maybe I could make a voice reel for units like Ranger, Assault Grenadiers, etc and that could be turned into a mod in the future....

Grens I think are relatively fine where they are. They are a strong core infantry, but they have their counters and their durability issues, not to mention losing too many models early game is detrimental due to their reinforce cost of 30, same issue as USF, where losing too models early on delays tech and new units. And in smaller games, I generally don't lie spending all those munitions until the late game since first purchase will likely be the med bunker, maybe mine sweepers, and then it depends if you're force to faust/use nades.

I also must be the odd one out on PGs. I think PGs do pretty good damage overall with and have their place as mid-short range combatants and become bringers of death with vet. You just don't charge them like assault troops, unless it's a support weapon or weak infantry units. Nor like Grens, will they usually ever be the main line infantry because of the reinforce cost. I would say usually 2 max when with 3-4 grens and the accompanying support weapons. You probably don't see too much because, on my random assumption, most people prefer to stick their their build and not differentiate since it pushes them out of their comfort zone. It also means I'm the only player who usually tries to build a Brummbar in smaller games because it's there in the T4 building .

Some have already stated this, but I will support a nerf for the shrek, they shouldn't be used as main-line aggressive AT, but be support against armour trying to push past the line or to provide a screen against rushing armour.

I wouldn't mind if shreks lost long-range accuracy(PGs have already taught me not to push up since the bleed Ost heavily), though the major issue is especially prominent on Volks who gain a massive accuracy boost with vet where the practically never miss and you only really have 5 meters over shrek units with tanks who will need to stop and decelerate then re-accelerate, not to mention most vehicles cannot sight their full max range.

On the one hand crits add even more RNG which makes a fight as good as unpredictable from the start.
On the other hand they add a interesting part of gameplay so if they bring them back they have to make sure that the crits appear as good as never. Just a 1/1000 chance or so.

Be nice if there were certain units like the Stuart that could intentionally cause criticals to make them less random.