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They go down very quick when focused.

Two american units can easily stop Sturmpioneers from charging and forcing retreats.

They have no scaling and lose to a single Rifleman squad with BARs. As the battlefield gets more lethal the Sturmpioneer is only good for defending other units. Or flanking Mg's & Anti Tank Guns.

So yeah there you have the problems I see with this unit. No scaling and the fact that allies need two units to deal with the very first OKW unit.

(Although I personally see it scaling ok if used correctly.)

Trying to expand ton kreatiirs thinking here.

So Combats can beat Pios if employed correctly, considering Pios don't deal that much damage up close as sturm-pios.

Both pios, and combat engineers can get flamers later witch gives them a place even in late game. Same with Rear Echelon, their ability to suppress does give them an valid place in later stages of the game.
I also feel sturm-pios (same as with other units sturm-pios is really the equivalent of IRL pios but nvm.)
would have a valid place in late game as a flanking unit.

The problem comes form Sturm-pios (StP from now on.) really wrecking it against combat engineers and rear echelon troops (RET) in the very first engagement of the battle, and then the StP will continue to wreck against scripts for quite a long time.

All other first units are quite weak early and is mostly about capping points and building but they can be upgraded to be a better asset in the late game. And if microed properly they can hold their own against the enemies first units.

Is it really sound to have one faction starting with a hard counter to the opposing factions starting units?

Shouldn't units be about having strengths and weaknesses and the overall success you have with them being dependent on how you use them? Use a unit to its strength and you'll be successful, deploy them without thinking and you'll be punished?

I'd hate a game where unit A will win 100% of the times against unit B simply because unit A costs more. Unit A should win because I play it to its strength.

Look at Shocks and how boring they used to be. Just run up to a LMG Gren squad and you would win, now running in clear field with shocks against LMG grens is a good way to loose Shocks. However, flank with the shocks and get in close without exposure and they'll make minced meat out of the grens.

Same principle should apply to the Obersoldaten (and seriously change that stupid name it sound ridiculous.) Facing another infantry unit shouldn't mean the allies would have to retreat instantly but the allies should have a way to out-micro the Germans.

Kinda feels like the WFA was balanced according to pre-march patches.