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221 should be in the game and it should actually be also available for Ostheer.

It should server as a counter to allied cars like the m3, UC, WC51.

Reducing shock value of these vehicles to zero?
Ost already has faust from the very start of the game specifically to keep early lights at bay and same with OKW and puppchen(like it or not, that's intended counter, I had used and had used against meeffectively puppchen as 3rd or 4th unit to counter M3).
You want to counter them, wait for 222.
Why some units should be completely irrelevant from the get go?
Why would you NOT want to rush 221 as ost in every single game, when allies have absolutely nothing to fend off or even deter from pushing non support light?
Why ost and OKW should have a vehicle that can effectively dive in and chase without any fear of AT or snare?
Are you up for giving all 3 allied factions T0 tech and vet free way to field AT or AT nades from minute zero, so the counterplay to that 221 of yours exists?

Try to see at times something beyond "axis unit up, allied unit op" please.

The only things in that price range are Luchs, an AI tank, and Puma, a light vehicle hunter so neither would be fair comparisons. The Puma also has other weakness, such as having atrocious anti-infantry performance and only 25 armour, so it dies easily to flak, light cannon, and even HMGs, while the Stuart has 80 armour, giving it more than 50% chance to deflect Ostwind shots.

In any case you should look at the pen values of the Ostwind before making such contrarian claims. The Ostwind doesn't even threaten a T70 with its barely 50% pen chance, puny 40 damage, and chance of missing a moving light tank (high speed + small target size + low Ostwind accuracy). A T70 would need to stand still for more than 20 seconds for an Ostwind to be able to kill it.

That's one of the major problems with Ostwind right now - it's really terrible vs Light Tanks, and it can only win (while losing more than half health) if your opponent's light vehicle stops and stands still in a 20+ second face-off.

Pre nerf stuart could contest puma with use of active abilities if it got into range and used that muni,
post nerf stuart is steamrolled by it.

"Supposed to" according to what measure? One from five years ago?

Yes, exactly that, from before they gave free menpower to both axis factions and then some to usf so the last can actually start building 2nd infantry unit at the start.
Its called balance and its one of the core balance features which was bombarded by exceprions, because reasons.

And of course the point is moot since the face remains that OKW does not start with the most MP. If you want to compare starting MP plus the starting unit value, feel free to, but that isn't what the above posters were talking about so don't conflate the two.

Again, it does.
It gets most expensive and most effective squad at start out of all factions and gets that very extra 100mp to instantly build volks.
While they may have formulated their point incorrectly, its undisputed fact that OKW starts with most menpower resources out of all factions combined with starting mp and starting squadm, that is literally how that mechanic is working and 500 minus starting squad is principle mechanic that only 2 factions still apply to.
You know how vipper is always whining for consistency instead of random exceptions all over the place?
Well sorry to break it to you, but due to that very random exception OKW starts with most menpower resources in game and just because you don't see that on the menpower number doesn't mean its not true, because these sturmpios do have a worth, regardless if you understand it or not.

290 sounds good. What were they before? I don't recall

Before the revamp?
Infiltrating pathfinders, but with sniper rifle out of the gate.

They got vet0 camo now and sniper rifle pretty much ignores heavy and garrison cover compared to any other weapon.

Oh, they also arrive much sooner then before at 1 CP instead of 2.
They used to cost 300mp as well.

US pathfinders can pick up BARs and become quite capable of bringing enemies to below the sniping threshold.

What you are proposing is nerfing it into irrelevance, not "fixing" it.

Soo you're saying that if you invest 120 muni in addition, you -might- get something a little bit comparable to 45 muni investment?

You have just made another argument why JLI require a nerf in a way.