Profile of Esxile

Didn't watch all the game but you should have win that game before 20 minutes. I stopped watching around 21 munites and it is at this moment you simply get overwhelmed by his blob

1- Good start but you don't use enough cover.
2- Build sandbags and wire evident cover used against you, there are some evident one on this map.
3- You are floating Munition while you can equip all your squads with 1 1919. After your first squad equipped it took you too much time to equip the others.
4- 1 mortar HT is good, 2 WTF?

You are playing well but you simply forget why you are playing: To win the match. So you believe because you won early game you can stale and stay in-definitively on T1 with mortar HT. I tell you a secret, that doesn't work, at least not with USF (at all).
You won the early game, you equip BARs/1919 and you build a good damn sherman to close the match.

I'll come back on what I said earlier in more details, you played well but he played really badly early game and you kill his kubel because he did crap.
You're not in cover vs the Kubel and when he finally get his sturmpio close to you you didn't retreat your RE squad in time. First you left it where it was when you could have soft retreat to a cover while your rifle shot at him. And next you wait to have 1 man left to retreat, if you can't win, retreat you don't need to take loses for nothing.
Now if he had use his Kubel + Sturmpio together, I believe you would have lost the early game. Think of it. Cover and don't let him close the gap on you with his sturm.

Some mistakes I saw:
1- You decrew its raken and you didn't pick it up or at least destroyed it => Noob mistake . Everytime you kill a support team you pickup the weapon or you destroy it. (he took it back 5 minutes later)
2- No mines while having so much munitions is also an error, couple of mines in every evident path. At your level nobody use the sweeper.
3- Focus fire: make sure your squads are focusing the priority 1 target = Sturmpio.
4- Do not over invest on AI or AT. You have a really good commander Anti infantry, this means you must use your stock AT units. You should have had a sherman around 15 minute
5- Not enough reco, you don't know where is his truck and what is it.
6- Not enough aggressive, you should have reco his truck and force him with your troops covering your Mortar. => you manage to get him retreat his troops and you use phosphorus shells on his retreat point. Captain to start damaging his truck, on the mean time and when the sherman is in, you try to destroy his truck with it.
7- No more than 1 cache of each.
8- Past 5 minutes, fighting position are useless (except on narrow passes): he has raken, Shrecks, possible light vehicle etc...

There was no mirror matching in CoH1.

There were players who were stuck with just a single faction, but it was strat forum that was full, not balance forum.

Then, there was DoW2, with mirror matching and SM players being a little too attached to their army(if they had a chance, they would wear that power armor themselves and smite players playing different armies with their righteous fury).

What have changed in addition to the years passed and new player generation getting their hands on coh2?

We do not have the same memories of Coh1 in gamereplay.org forum, the balance forum was quite full of trash.
Vcoh1 had a small community, the game was popular but the forum community not that big, also the competitiveness of the game wasn't extraordinary. When OF came out the community grow up and here came the balance problem and associated threads.

Love how people are blaming a generation and education when it has nothing to do with it.

there are no mirror-matching and this is the source of the frustration. When you play Zerg in Starcraft, you have 33% chance to match another Zerg player. You may beat him, he may beat you and if it is the case, you'll not going in Bliz forum to complain about Zerg being OP, and the same goes for all factions.
You cannot blame this generation and education when Blizzard SC2 forum are far less toxic while having much more players.

Only top players tend to play well all factions equally, because they have the time to do so, forum warriors like you call them are mainly at work when they do spam here, watching twitch or youtube of top players spending much more time playing and much less time at work or on other social activities/sleeping.

You cannot blame people for playing only 1 or 2 factions, people play what they like for any of their own personal reason and they is not problem with that.

Mirror matching is probably the best way to learn and improve your gameplay, because 99% of your defeat are because your opponent has simply outplay you, with the exact same tools.
Mirror matching also includes teamplay, you can plays Zerg/Terran/Protoss mirror match in SC2, but you cannot play USF/Sov/OKW/Ost on a mirror match (matchmaking) where the defeat will lie on your skill more than factions design.

I also want to add Commanders are a big source of frustration because they may be completely OP. Half of the nerf-thread are about them because they add specific abilities/units designed to break the standard gameplay of a game.

wtf are you saying? OKW already has a T1 reinforce point. Just get rid of the hard retreat point.
USF also has a T0 soft reinforce point? What are you shitting?
I don't see USF being pushed off the map without FRP because it' doesn't come until T3 ANYWAYS.

OST can only get either a HT or bunker heal. SOV same thing. How the hell would removing FRPs change ANYTHING early game except for OKW? Let's get it straight... there's no FRP FOR ANYONE EXCEPT OKW early game.

You're not reversing ANYTHING! You want/need 2 ambulances to heal at base and on the field? Well guess what? OST has to build a healing bunker at base AND on the field if they want to heal in 2 different areas. Same thing for SOV.

What SITUATION are we reversing by removing FRPs? Rewarding players for forcing enemies to retreat? Players become less blobby because they don't want to have to hard retreat all squads when they scout? Enemies can't bounce back onto the field in 20 seconds? Players that continue to blob will continue to lose? Aren't these ALL good things? All factions do NOT need a halftrack to reinforce because they ALL already have something. This thread is about RETREAT points NOT reinforce points.

USF doesn't have way to reliably hold a territory with HMG and ATguns.
-OKW because their HMG is doctrinal and has nothing to do with the HMG42
-USF because you have to chose between HMG and ATgun. Do you remember smoke and flank? Ostheer just need to riflenade your HMG.
Both faction has little tools to keep a territory from a push. many time it result in a retreat + come back and this is why they have FRP. Because if they don't push they simply lose the game. They do not have the M3 or the sniper Sov has able to quickly circle or snipe from far away + cons hourra/molotov in t1 and Maxim + Zis + mortar in T2.

I admit OKW is tricky actually since they overperform but USF major comes at the same time OStheer is clearly able to push you hard, and not having the major retreat point will be more than an issue in many maps.

Now, Soft Retreat is something anybody know how to do at a certain level but you cannot soft retreat vs 3 gren/mg42 or 2 shock squads closing the gap on you.
I'm not saying FRP must stay like it is but removing unilateraly the option will set OKW and USF on the backfoot.
I have proposed some ideas to reduce the effectiveness: Increase reinforcement time x2 on FRP or disable healing when reinforcing. Some other can be find as well.

And you could still place forward truck or park ambulance on the field, you just wouldn't be able to hard retreat to it, just like you can't to ost bunker or sov FHQ(RIP).

This is why i think giving a HT to OKW/USF would best suit the removal of FRP, because honestly I already soft retreat to my ambulance anytime I can but the ambulance remains a non combatant unit and your only source of heal. You'll need to have two of them to heal at your base and soft retreat or decrew it and put a 200mp RE squad in it, it become a bit expensive just to be able to heal at your base and have a soft retreat point that weak.

Another idea is to simply increase the time to reinforce outside of your base sector so it will make them less reliable to reinforce blob. make it x2 for any model.

Another idea is to disable the healing function anytime your reinforce a unit from the ambulance or OKW FRP (with a short cooldown after each model reinforced).

There are ways to make them less powerful abilities before just removing them.