Part of the problem. The units was moved 2.5 earlier and become available for 200 manpower less.
It simply does not need to be that strong. Imo tt should be closer Ass IS and have extra utility (anti garrison) with an incendiary grenade (VG style). Then it could become T0 unit.
That would help vs garrison and countering Ass. gren.
i just did some test and find out that at vet 0, officer can barely win stumpio with just 1 model left and alway lose to pg (officer cloe in in the open). Comebine that with the test vs axis mainline, i can confidently say that the unit's power lever when out of the box is completely fine, unles you consider the fact that ukf have an limited to only 1 unit that can have a fair fight with stumpio at vet 0 is "that strong".