Profile of Esxile

Are Tommies bluntly superior to everything with bolster+2x brens? No they arent, they are very strong but they arent superior. In early game they can be punished just as bad as rifles if you didn't play it right, thats why whole UKF early game is handled by UC\rec.team call in, yet, its still completely possible to play full inf sections openings, its just harder.

x2 Bar rifles are perform perfectly fine at close\mid range, which sometimes could be the problem on open maps, but as I said you have m1919 for this situations, and inf company to cover almost every single USF weak spot in teamgames, with an exception of MG\AT gun choice.


Because they want to play USF, without wanting to accept how faction works and how its supposed to be played, therefore relying on cheesing, the same way Ostheer heroes abused pre-nerfed 5-men squads, with the exact same fucking argument that "Grenadiers suck ass, because reason X makes 4 men squads non-viable, therefor the only way to play ostheer is 5 men squads".

In other words, its just the easiest way to play USF right now and the hardest one for enemy to counter, plain and simple.

UKF!=USF

x2Bar rifles are performing poorly atm since its a late game setup and knowing you're always facing elite infantry spam from OKW that outperform riflemen and how gren vet3 are simply OP and perfectly stand their ground vs them.

Players aren't doing Path because they're stronger, Path aren't any stronger than riflemen statwise so your comparison with 5men gren doesn't make any sense here. Path provide an edge which is vision and good long range stat but if you give USF a real stock option to get vision range early game (other than being forced to build a M20, like give RE 42 sight range as pio) and you'll see path strat drop.
I've been playing more than 20 2vs2 games this week-end and 80% of which with at least 1 OKW players had overwatch selected, and if it wasn't Overwatch, pfuss or JLI. Ostheer side, Scope everywhere.
You can't come here and say how boring is it to face Path and at the same time spaming JLI/Pfuss or Scope or reco loiter + Lefh, every single game.
I've been almost exclusively using Infantry doc myself so those 40/60 players who insta picked their long vision range doctrine can't really argue they did it because of Path.

Riflemen are bad, Path being overly used is just a consequences of bad gameplay decisions made by the modding team when they decided to give free vision range to everyone except USF (and then decided that it wasn't fair so the Major could get it as well lolol@trolltheplayers)

Talking about M1919, let me tell you it is a mew upgrade. Here again you would expect to win Gren but that's not really the case and vs OKW elite infantry roaming everywhere well you're not going to contest any JLI/Obers/Falls/Pfuss on the field with them.
Now I use them because even being bad, for their cost and being techfree they're better investment than BARs.

UKF and also USF side techs (even USF ambulance) are a mechanisms to move costs from the main tech branch. Especially the pure UKF main tech path would be stupidly cheap otherwise. Axis also unlock upgrades during their main tech, meaning parts of their main tech cost can be attributed to unlocking the upgrade. Long story short: Counting Allied side techs towards the squad cost does not make much sense.

I don't know where you took this idea from. USF was meant to be versatile with superior infantry you could decide to upgrade at side cost to be more powerful or keeping them being over time on par with cheaper/upgraded Axis infantry and relying on LVs or fast medium tanks.
When people complains about how boring 3xRM is every game, that's because the decision making part of USF BO was never meant to be on the units you build but side techs used you unlock.

What went wrong with this design is that upgrading RM which were already superior lead to inevitable snowball effect every game.

Today we're far from here, we're at a point where RM aren't naturally superior anymore to any other infantry and their side tech are mandatory for them to compete because of the many balance decisions taken over time with little reflexion on the impact with USF faction.

Today more than ever, side tech must be taken in account in RM's cost. One of the reason Airborn is popular isn't only because Path but also Para which don't need any side cost to be equiped with LMG and grenades.
Side tech aren't gate, they were optional at the beginning and now mandatory. And this is because they are mandatory that the USF design as a whole is broken today.

In the current iteration: Tiger Ace that can self repair... for... FREE! and also remove damage engine in the process.

Paths aren't a cause but a consequence of modding team's lack of vision (pun intended) on balance. And it started long before path buff. Now it is just about to sit and wait for coh3 and hope those pesky modders aren't involved in coh3 gameplay design 😅

I remember when they nerfed cluster bomb timing making it lot easier to avoid, they supossedly nerfed stuka strafing bomb run too but it still has no problem wrecking a usf retreat point before they can usually move major or ambulance.

Stuka strafing bomb is impossible to dodge in many situations, but that's ok.