as usual i am going to talk about weakness of USA
Yeah as annoying as usual.
1. tanks.. no even need to mention..no any heavy tank for usa, and the rest is paperwork and the MOST INTERESTING PART of german tanks they never get destroyed, they have an ability of running away with ZERO(0) HP, or even if you hit them they get abondoned. you wont be able to destroy any single f...ing german tank. ah plus, they can one shot your infantry while your tanks will miss all of their shoots against infantries.
Is there a hotkey for not getting your tanks destroyed? I'd love to know that!
US tanks can be repaired by the crew after the fight. German tanks can't.
No German tank except the superheavies Tiger/King Tiger will do a squad wipe with a single shot only with a lot of luck (which is also needed with the mentioned super tanks).
M8A1 will also snipe German units over a large area. Greyhound canister shot will squad wipe in 9 of 10 times.
2. german bazookas better.
And they are much more expensive. Yeah maybe an OKW Shreckblob is pretty dangerous but getting Panzershrecks for you PzGrens is expensive as hell and lowers the anti inf capabilities down to 50%.
3. german infantry has more variety and veterancy.. they can get FIFTH (5TH) RANK, while usa inf gets 3... sounds like a joke.
Only OKW can. Ost cannot. And OKW is much more vulnerable to squad wipes. A dead vet 3 rifle squad is sad but can be replaced. A dead vet 5 Obersoldaten squad is crucial.
4. EVEN fighting positions are weaker than german bunkers.
They can fire grenades.
5. artillery.. usa has no any artillery neither, you get priest which fires 3 times in 1 hour and not able to destroy anything, and enemy will lurk it immediately with 10 panzershreck blob. while your VET UNITS EQUIPPED WITH EXPENSIVE WEAPONS WILL BE WIPED OUT IMMEDIATELY BY OP WALKING STUKA.,retreating wont save them neither.
Maybe it's you but a well played Priest can be Fritz's horror. In addition US has the M8A1 and the field artillery. Stuka zu Fuß is the ONLY German artilley (except for mortars) worth anything. LeFH is pure luck and the stationary artillery is weak as hell. I won't even mention the Panzerwerfer.
6. okw starts with OVER POWERED sturm pios which can wipe out a rifleman squad if they once get very close eachother. even retreat wont save your riflemans ass.. you will loose them. but however those german infantry wont get squad wipe easily. if you catch them alone with 3 rifleman then you might. WHY USA DOESNT START WITH ASSAULT ENGINEERS????? instead of getting a useless commander to have ass engies??
Don't get close to them. Sturmpioneers are expensive and they have incredible long reinforcement time. Sure Echelons are bad but you can't rush through open field on a rifle squad with Sturmpioneers.
7. anti aircraft; okw truck will easily hunt your planes down, while you have to go tech 2 and babysit an aa gun truck but it will cost your population while okw truck doesnt. and if you go T2 against okw you wont have any AT gun, because going T2 and T3 at the same time against OKWs is suicide.
If you manage to kill the Schwerer Panzer HQ you will usually win. A dead Flak HT is not as bad as that.
The HQ can't move. After you have seen it once you know where it is.
8. Grenades; cheap LONG RANGE german grenades will wipe your expensive equipped and hardly vetted units off. And you will have to spend TWENTY FIVE (25) FUEL to get grenade. EVEN A CAR(KUBELWAGEN) COSTS 5 FUEL HOW THE HELL GRENADES COST 25 FUEL?????????????????? and even if you get them and spend 30 munitions everytime to use them, you wont wipe any german squads off. its expensive useless grenade.
US grenades are better than German ones. It costs fuel because of balancing reasons. Otherwise Rifles would dominate every OKW unit in every range expect Obersoldaten.
9. as USA your forward HQ (major+ambulance) can be destroyed in 3 seconds, but okw forward hq truck will take 20 minutes to be destroyed and will probably cost too much units to you.
So don't put your major into the middle of the field, use it defensively. The OKW medic station has no Puma and no Stuka. It has the Jgdpz4 which IMO sucks, the LeFH which also sucks most of the time and the UHU that's useless without a Stuka.
10. sherman turrets are the most expensive ones for no reason.
On German we call it "Deutsche Wertarbeit"
11.heavy machine guns.. german mgs have 360 degree angle, supress in 2 seconds, and if they get vet 1 they can kill any light armor in 3-4 seconds while usa has narrow angle and late coming mg WITH THE LOVELY SPRINT ABILITY SERIOUSLY WTF?! WHO WOULD RUN AROUND WITH HEAVY MG?
360° would be awesome. Even 180° would but it's afaik 130°. They suppress far slower than Maxims and the Incendary round will take ages to load. If you see an enemy Mg34/42 not shooting for a long time on your car just leave the radius.
12. german kubel can supress infantry and costs 5 fuel, useless jeep costs 20 and does nothing at all.. just waste of resources unless you refit them, IF YOU CAN TAKE THEM OUT IN 1 PIECE.
13. stuka bombing strike (the one comes with luft commander) can shoot anywhere on the map, and wipe off everything it hits. and doesnt drop any red flare, you just hear a stupid plane voice before 2 seconds bombs land. USA has nothing equivalent, just has some stupid off map artillery doing no effect, nothing at all
It costs a lot of ammunition and you can hear it a long time before it drops. Move the most likely target and the German will lose 240 ammunition.
14. puma (light armor??) can kill your tanks easily.... your light armor stuart.. just distracting enemy armors for 5 seconds and then gets destroyed.
Yes Pumas are very strong but they lack AI. If the OKW player will put out a Puma at first you can overwhelm him with infantry.
15. german mortars will fire with 100% accuracy, while usa doesnt get any mortar team unless you get the infantry commander and spend 40 FUEL!!!!!!!!
German mortars in fact are very good.