Well as much as I hate to agree with Ratchet, he/she's probably right. That, or you're basing your experience from the Priest off of the outcomes of 1 or 2 games. If Priests are wiping your squads on the first shot of their barrage every time, you are experiencing RNG like never seen before and I encourage you to upload some replays to back these outlandish and wild claims. Seriously, you are the first person I've ever heard to complain about the Priest since WFA release. The M8A1 Scott is a much more serious problem in terms of squad wiping than the Priest, which is non-doctrinal.
QueenRatchet is simply wrong. I'm basing my experience with the Priest from my own personal experiences in mainly 2v2's, so usually the Priests are backed up by B4's and other Russian units that work extremely well in conjunction with US units. Granted, I haven't played a lot of 1v1's as the OKW but if the Priests are as powerful in 1v1's as they are in 2v2's, then I want no part of that and would prefer to face the Russians instead.
I plan on playing a bunch of matches tonight(1v1's since I've given up on trying to beat a Russian and US mixed team in 2v2) so we'll see what happens and if a Priest decimates my forces, I'll upload the replays and link you to them. I already have 1 replay uploaded where a Priest and B4 killed all of my units throughout the game, so feel free to watch that one if you want.
Also, I resent the statement "learn to play". I don't need to remind everyone that I was a top 10 ranked player for the British Army in CoH1, and I was in the top100 for Panzer Elite in 2v2 ranked, so it's safe to say that I know how to play CoH1 and CoH2; they're essentially the same game so my skills for this game are sufficient.