RIflemen, the most overrated unit in the game?
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For a 280 MP unit and super expensive upgrades its surprising to see them getting melted by much cheaper units. What a horrible unit, I find it hilarious people act like USF has the best infantry in the game when its OKW by a mile.
They have their weaknesses early on, but they compensate for it with a great scale in late game, when they have double BARs or BAR/LMG combo. At this time, they really don't give a shit about Axis infantry. As the famous joke says, a German squad entered a BAR
Riflemen can be countered by Fallschirmjäger, but those are also countered by Rangers or Paratroopers.
PS : Try this combo as USF and tell me the results :
Go for Lieutenant and field 3 Rifles. Put LMGs and BARs on your rifles (1 BAR and 1 LMG) and equip your Lieutenant with double BARs. They become effective in all ranges, and they are able to stop blobs bigger than them.
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They need to close in vs volks and grens if they want to win the engagement, and by the time you are close enough vs a single squad you already dropped 1, sometimes even 2 models if you are unlucky. Means you may lose the engagement nonetheless. It feels like the only way to go here is to get some lucky early frag grenade hits. (Or hide them behind a sightblocker and wait, but not all maps offer that)
They are really good but only if they have 2 BARs and at least veterancy 2. And that is too much requirements.
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Riflemen are a long term investment, just keep them alive and eventually they will out-trade even elite infantry, it's not their problem the other factions powercreep has hurt them early on but their scaling remains very strong.
The problem is to keep them alive. When your retreating squad get annihilated by a couple of lost bullet.
I would like to see a little improvement on their retreating ability.
This hole faction is so fragile. Big shout out to those who can play well USF.
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I think riflemen are reasonably balanced, so on some maps open maps that makes them quite poor when lmg42, obers, and mgs are very effective
Riflemen do get better if you can some how survive long enough to unlock the weapon rack and give them double bars. At the start of the game though they are an absolute joke. You literally have no effective combat units as USF for the first 5 minutes of the game.
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