they are too much effective becuase you need to tech whitch mean one more of them at field.
Will you go m10 when you have scott and jacson ?
Yes but not in such numbers. Really i amost every game see m10 spam becuase it is dirty cheap (no teching cost + ist cost + its ability to trade tanks)
Im abusing it of course too
And i dont want to nerf it direcly , we all know what is was before Hp buff
PUMA
i often thought about puma as counter to extended ligt vehilce plax not a luxury unit.
If it was between tier 2 and 3 you can choose will i get my puma now or will i build tier 3 for that cost and wait for p 4 ? but know it is not soo good becuase it comes too late to counter vehicles (5CP and quad come at 3 CP ussualy)
And you must agree puma + TWP + smoke
and commad pazer that is potent agains infantry and make 0,8 modifier defensive make this doctrine very attractive if you can use abilities(you dont have many muni abilities so this doctrine tend to float muny a bit) and micro becuase you dont need to tech and you can beat usf , russian core units with it (puma will twp every TD and kite every tank)
Im saying it last time i dont want to nerf those units becuase they are fine in what they do , their only problem is you get one free of them becuase you dont need teching and then with +1 vehicle superiority it snowballs to more vehicles and so on
If you spam m10s, you don't have AI, I know you can decrew them to reduce their popcap but still, I don't know how you can spam them and win... if there is no tanks on the field.
M10 allow you to play T1+T2. if they are so used it is also because USF play requires a good AT mid game, before it was the sherman but since last patch it comes later. Stuart are there for sure but apart from hell-micro + ability vs puma to win it, it only counter sdfk, flaktracj, 222 and Luch (which is perfectly fine).
What I mean is Stuart + m10 have taken the role of Sherman, a unit that can soak small arm fire damage, not bad vs inf (stuart) and not bad vs medium (m10). Except now you need two units. That's fine, you need more micro, it is always good to take it as USF.
Put the M10 behind the Major and you'll never see it again, btw you'll see less USF light vehicles (whatever) and more (only) rush sherman. Because Rifles don't scale after gren get their lmg, and if you want to stop the bleeding you need a tank to fire back and with AT capability because at the moment Ostwind or Pz4 hit the field, it is not your ATgun that will save you.
Now the Puma is a luxury unit, even more since 222 ammo cost has been removed. You can set 1 mine more, you can wait a little bit and have a pzshrek + usual pak + usual faust and have an early 222. But in fact, I have no objection to put it as you want, not sure it is going to do better apart from delaying the Tiers 3.