Profile of Esxile

Indeed - LMG Grens were never really bad in the history of CoH2 until this moment when Infantry Sections and Riflemen got buffed.

They weren't bad, they were better than rifle for a cheaper price + better and cheaper weapon upgrade. Now Rifles are balanced and above them at any stage of the game as they should be, Gren lovers are sad.

Or give the halftrack a forward retreat point option that locks it down, like the heal does for the USF med truck.

I would like to see how that would affect the effectiveness of Grens and Ostheer in general.

Feel free to create your own mod for that. But we don't need it in game.

USF vs Mgs spam:
Like said: Occupy the houses with your first unit, cap later when you know what strategy you get in front of you. Being first to occupy the houses is primordial with USF in 3vs3+.
In case of MGs spam, do not overbuild infantry, build 2 REs instead of your 2nd and 3rd riflesquad and build 1 or 2 fighting positions to hold the line. imo it is probably the only case where I rush building fuel caches. skip T1, T2 with a pak + stuart.
Do not rush with the stuart, Mgs spam are usually followed with mine spam and prbably a pak. Use it defensively to stop his harass while you attack with the pak howi.
Use grenade to smoke and harass capping and leave the mgs alone until you have the forces to take them out. Avoid giving them free vet by frontal attack.

USF vs blob.

.50 behind your rifles. .50 isn't good alone, use it behind 1 or many rifle squads for a maximum effectiveness. Same goes if you use a halftrack => never in the frontline, always behind a squad of rifles to give extra vision and not being the first automatic target of schreck. If you retreat the rifle squad, so you do as well with the ht unless you have suppressed all the blob and are at max range.
Build a couple of REs more and harass his points. Next it depend of your doctrine, if you have infantry or armor company = mines or demo charge.

still seems inferior to just placing a mine on a vp and watch that squad getting wiped ( especially if its under fire and loses a model and/or health) looks stylisher thought to have a pio trying to clear a minefield.

S-mine is a denial area tool while with mine, you have to literally walk on the exact emplacement.
With a mine, you can't deny a capping flag, you just hope to get lucky that he goes right in the mine.
With a S-mine, he can't cap the flag at all before removing them (or he is soviet and use its vet1 tank )

If you don't see the difference and understand why S-mines have indicators, can't help you more.

That has more to do that these units are quite bad. the puma is a rather subpar tank hunter if you compare it to the m10. the okw track? a joke compared to any other track and the maphack is overrated because you know the okw player is maphacking.

Are you serious?

Jpz4 counter any USF armor (minus Pershing maybe)
Puma counter USF T1 and Stuart (microplay) and outrange Sherman
Half-track is a good support unit, its defensive role lead you to push with your sturm and deploy it on the conquered territory to stop the counter attack.
Not to mention that all those units are greatly helped by camo raketen giving extra vision if positioned in front.

The problem with OKW, is that like other armies you need to use combined arms, but for whatever reason OKW players doesn't want to play with their medium and light units. Do you remember that was Relic Goal when they nerfed the Call-in system? Giving more room to T2/T3 light/medium units for all factions. Buta s per today OKW is the only faction that doesn't build anything from their T2 before their Pz4 or Panther.
So you can argue that rifleflam are strong but if you don't even try to build their natural counter = HT or Luchs, you're not going to win anyway!

From my experience and what I see, 1st OKW players have greater chance to win if they use a Kubel at start and micro it well. And second they also have better chance to win when they deploy a HT/luch as medium to counter rifles before the Pz4.

My opinion is there is not need to buff what is overuse today but make the other side of OKW army more accessible to combined strategy. I understand the fuel is the issue here so the redesign is problem around here to be done.