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I'm no expert, but I think team weapons make the entire idea of combined arms interesting and thus should be accessible for all factions and should not be locked out in the name of "avoiding homogenization". Just my opinion.

I mean, both vanilla coh 1 factions had mgs and mortars that were kind of similar. Noone compalined. Yet the factions that tried to be sooo very different (PE and especially coh 1 brits) were a lot less popular. They had no conventional team weapons at all.

Team weapons are interesting and should be accessible IMO. There's other ways to differentiate them than to lock them in doctrines (MG34) or not integrating them (US Mortar). For example, in CoH 1 the allied AT gun had piercing rounds while the axis AT gun could cloak. The allied mg had piercing rounds but the axis one didn't. Stuff like that... but each role was filled. It didn't feel like sth was missing. I strongly opposse locking out what feels like it should be a basic part of a well designed faction just so it feels "less homogenized".

I was wondering why it sometimes would seem like the wfa armies are more prone to blobbing and not using combined arms? I think the inaccessability of team weapons could be part of the problem...

So yeah basically, OKW will be the only faction without handheld AT. I fail to see how your point adresses that issue. It went from having no non doctrinal suppression to no infantry AT at all. Fail design at its best.

If this goes live as is, welcome to a new era of early game light vehicles to rape OKW. Especially if Volks faust doesn't snare. Lame patch tbh, that brings back the Puma opening as the only viable opening for the faction. Hopefully beta test for this will end in utter failure.

It feels like they gathered all quality of life enhancements that most RTS games need and gave them all to UKF USF and OKW

Thanks Ful4n0 but I have already uninstalled the game after dealing with the OKW jeep spam with pios and mg's. I have watched high level replays and seen how other players play US and in all honesty they lose so many units it's not even funny. The game revolves around trying to micro your units which is fine, but once late game hits (Like COH1) Axis Armor always prevails, which is fine since US are supposed to have early game advantage, but when you take away that early game advantage.....

Also I tend to like to hear constructive responses that take all things into consideration, but I forget that these forums are filled with axis fanboys who just want an easy win. So before you call me a US fanboy, keep in mind I play all factions and when playing against a US player, if I lose it's cause I did something really stupid...Losing against Brits however is all on forward emplacements, but OKW seem to be able to get past that with mass T1 infantry rockets.

BB and HF

FYI: OKW don't have access to supression until 1 CP, and Kubels die in maybe 10 secs of focus fire from your riflemen. So until 1 CP, you can (and should) attack frontally, once MG34s come out, that's another story, but as other people said, you have the tools to get rid of them.

And versus Ostheer, you shouldn't have trouble in the early game, your riflemen win versus grenadiers at most ranges, there's only the MG42 you have to deal with (and the sniper behind it, usually).

And the super riflenades of nuclear death: each use puts the wehrmacht player 30 munis behind, and he BADLY needs lmg42s (60 ammo) on his grenadiers to be able to hold any kind of ground in infantry combat. They are not even remotely as potent as they used to be though, cover negates most of its damage. As much as i hate to say this, most of your issues are l2P ones: try to spectate a handful of USF high level games, where i'm sure you'll learn a trick or two (and since your problems are early game related, you're able to scan a lot of games in a very short time). Don't forget to spectate the games that are the highest in the spectators list on page 1, at the end of page 1 most of games are very low tiers, page 2 is even worse.