Profile of Esxile

I think Hero units were dropped or purchasable from a store. You had different hero units per tier, aka a hero sherman and a hero M36 from T4 but your commander usually had only one slot for hero per tier.
As USF, I recall having a kind of Lieutenant unit and a sherman and had a lot of fun with them.

Callin a hero unit would cost you ingame currency, losing it and calling it again would also cost ingame currency. Then winning and losing a game would provide you a certain amount of currency. Usually with a 50:50 victory ratio it wouldn't be possible to sustain all ingame currency cost of using all hero units at your disposal. So you had to make some choices or buy ingame currency with real money.

I leveled up a Airborn commander to max and that would provide you completely crazy stuff, super strong airborn troopers and completely over the top bombing runs.
As mentioned by Jae, the system was similar from what we have on the USF campaign and you had to make choices, being able to recall a KT wouldn't let you have access to other stuff from the tech arbol

The game was very fun to play indeed but completely broken on some aspect. I recall a german doctrine have a kind of permanent free vision on all the map that was completely broken with snipers, they just build two or three snipers and you couldn't do shit vs this...

Will they ever nerf the oppressive faction that is OKW and especially its early game? It is literally toxic for newer players, so not surprised coh 2 is so dead nowadays especially on allied side. ALl of my friends have quit because of Sturmpios and A-move autowin nature of OKW, especially in lower elo since it is so easy to play and oppressive against anything but soviets if u play meta soviets since only crutch units Soviets work nowadays. sturmpio spam to Volk spam and having so much resources early is toxic. Will USF get buffed assengies aswell early on? Who ever thought of OKW design at Relic must have been dropped on their head as a child

they're not going to nerf it.

I think game mode is a big part if it. In 1v1 you can just cap somewhere else, but in team games the same size maps are divided between 2/3/4x as many players which often forces you to engage the sturmpios directly.
USF has it worst because at least ukf you can tank with the UC and you start with an infantry section. USF gets stuck with the underwhelming RE and lack any vehicles or suppression options that early.

Doesn't work for USF, they just rush your cutoff.

I'm not sure changing USF mines is going to do anything at this stage of the game.
USF need some changes but mines are probably the least important.

Great, After work I'll check it.

Your playercard victory ratio says otherwise.