I'm pretty sure CoHronacup shattered this "wildly OP Brits" ruining all balance argument with the pick and winrates so lets stop repeating it shall we. They went 0-2 in the finals and axis didn't exactly struggle even in the games Brits won in build up rounds (pfc vs kimbo for a prime example).
I was trying to speak generally, not specifically regarding IS; but I don't think anyone would call IS "non-viable" before this patch (2x Bren IS blobs were a thing). However, my post really doesn't come across that way in retrospect. Regardless, I don't think that UKF is "Wildly OP" right now (they're nowhere near pre-nerf falls), but they're definitely "very powerful", at least in terms of mainline infantry.
As for the CoHrona Cup, that only covered 1v1. From my experience, this strategy (IS spam) seems to get
much worse in team-games, where the UKF player can forgo support weapons, as their teammate(s) can provide them. I'm sure an argument could be made for "new patch, pro-meta still in flux", but I'd think we would've seen the new "cheese" strategies at least attempted.
A 42.8% increase is irrelevant without context backing those numbers up. What's important is how that final buffed moving acc or moving DPS compares to other mainline units. Ok so Tommy have 0.5 moving acc.
Riflemen have 0.6 moving accuracy (this is even without BARS), are they similar to JLI? Why is there no crusade for rifleman for breaking the balance between five factions. We also have fiveman grens that are slightly stronger than bolstered Tommy, yet we had no threads calling for a hotfix to grens.
A 0.5 moving accuracy or 0.6 moving accuracy doesn't say much; but a
42.8% increase says a ton. The 'increase' is the context.
As for the other units (rifles, Grens), the issue is again, context. Rifles become very powerful late game due to their reinforcement cost, amazing vet, AND great weapon upgrades. Individually, those are all fine; combined, they're a bit strong (nothing massively OP, though). Grens also have a 5 man upgrade, but it
locks out the LMG42 upgrade. They also remain very expensive to reinforce until T4 is built. None of these are because of their moving accuracy, as their weapons are balanced around that.
As for the factors in balancing Tommies vs gren, Ost have similar capabilities it's just more spread around eg pios (similar LoS to cover section). Pgrens (AT infantry), grens (medkits and med bunker). Also PIAT Tommy is hardly a balance issue lol
I'm not saying Tommy are perfect and require zero changes, but this patch has put them in their most balanced place yet.
Balance team should be applauded for that.
Yes, I know OST have the same abilities on different units - that's the point I'm making. Infantry Sections have so many possible permutations that "balancing" them is incredibly challenging. For example, let's say (somehow) the LOS Stacking between vet 1 cover and Pyro was OP on PIAT upgraded squads, and we wanted to reduce that. Unfortunately, if we made the LOS bonuses not stack (or lowered their values), this now also affects Vet 1, non-bolstered Bren squads.
On OST, changes to Pgrens don't affect Grens that directly.