so you would have extended vision Pios, maybe with flamers,2 MGs, and two grenadiers vs four rifles and maybe an officer with RE. Is that really as impossible as you're making it out to be?
Cookiez, I don't mean to be rude but trying to defend USF early vs Ostheer is ridiculous. Yeah, going two MG's start is high risk high reward but as decent USF player will just come at you from 3-4 directions and flank and force you to retreat. THATS the problem, Ost can not afford to be pushed off the map by USF at all, due to their high teching costs by comparison.
It's easy to say, use and MG, spot for it with Pios, defend it with Grens and you're okay. Yeah, in some situations you can do that, but it's very map dependant and based on luck that your Grens get a few crits on the rifles before they close in and rape your face.
It's too easy for USF to flank from 4 directions and completely push you off, which is good play from the USF, but due to design with Ostheer Tech, they can't come back from that. Also, trying to push out from your base with Ost after being pushed off is nowhere near as easy as it was for Wehrmacht in vCoH, which I think sometimes you are still imagining your'e talking about instead of Ostheer.
BTW, current strength of factions is as follows:
Soviets
USF
OKW
Ostheer