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What if you want to use 3/7 doctrines without call-in infantry?

then you use the stuff provided by the commander. How do you do with allied factions? they don't have stock elite infantry.

I can't say for the dhsk but since the hmg stat normalization in the last patch, I have the impression .50 works far better.

1- Hetzer high popcap is probably a way to mitigate recoup loss. So you can't have a super big blob + hetzer + tanks for "free". If you want to maintain your blob, you'll need to spam more recoup loss so to use your ammo and probably convert your fuel, so to delay your tanks. Each player will have to find the perfect balance between each of them.

2a- With the nerf of the global flam damage, a sturm flammer (no need for 2) is becoming much more interesting than spamming volks flamnade. for the cost of two flamnade you'll have a persistent flamer (up to you to not lose it), much more resilient with vet, you'll lose less munition at throwing flamnade dealing too little damage.
2b- OKW players are well known to cry because their beloved sturms become useless after 5 minutes. this upgrade will let you going safely 2 sturms start for a maximum early impact and dedicate one sturm to repair and the other one to flamer support for the rest of the game when their fighting superiority goes down.

3- Munition salvage at cp0, no need to explain how important is this ability in the context of the commander

5- Rocket Barrage is perfect if you decide to not spam and blob and so not use Recoup Loss, the doctrine gives you the munition salvage ability and you shouldn't be poping more than 1/2 sturmflammer in the game, so 200 ammo isn't a big deal.

I find the commander balance in fact, Dedicated in AI + a good arty barrage. It lacks of AT ability make it balance in my opinion.

The next interesting question are what can counter an early hetzer, the unit has a good armor, enough to deflect ATGs shots.

Yes, being a "pro" at 3v3 and 4v4 is just wasted effort. Those ranks don't impress anybody. You might impress someone on the coh2 subreddit or steam forums though. The bigger the game mode, the more variables, and the less the win or loss actually having anything to do with your own personal skill, on top of the majority of the 3v3/4v4 playerbase being trash.

lol are you playing 1vs1 to impress someone (except your ego?). How can you even talk about personal skill and at the same time whining ISG now requires more skill and isn't anymore a let itself win the game for me unit.

Whats tunnel visioned is people who only play 4v4s that can't possibly manage to micro more than 2 units at a time.

Mote and Beam like said Jesus long time ago.

It's not off topic at all. If RNG is such a big deal, then asking how significant an impact it is has, or players believe it to have, is not at all unreasonable. I am actually quite curious to know, because it increasingly seems to me that this is an argument about something which, even if you don't like it, just doesn't matter very much.

I don't know exactly how many games were played in the course of OCF; a couple of hundred I would guess. Asking how many of those you, or anyone else, think were won by blind chance is entirely fair.

Since RNG Gods are blessing everyone equally (so far), it is relatively equal, but it doesn't mean it make a match fair, it means you'll lose and win equal amount of match because of it, now you can see it or not, you can even name it RNG or not, as you say it a matter of interpretation and preferences. You can also add skill and game mechanism awareness to force your chance and opportunity to turn a situation at your advantage and so make it less RNG only decision.
There are always momentum, when you are low in chance or high, I think it has a name in poker, but don't remember it.