Profile of Esxile

Late game you swap the crew into a more relevant unit.

wtf did i just read... the stuart is a waste of fuel and serves no role for USF?

this is arguably one of the most useful light tanks in the game and literally build in 90% of all USF games (1v1) as a result. decent AI paired with excellent AT against anything of its class or lower - and to top it off you have vehicle crews for quick fixing and shell shock to give it some utility in the later stages of the game.

the ATHT might pale in comparison, but i wouldn't say it's a bad unit at all. it deals decent suppression and can stand its ground against most other light vehicles when supported properly, although it does lack some survivabiliity due to being 320 HP and not having any sort of defensive smoke. i think the major reason it is not built all too often is that it comes in cpt tier and the lt / .50 / stuart combo is much safer and more efficient to play.

Useful =! good. He is useful because he comes with the Lt, m20 and HMG, put it back into captain tier and no one will remember it.

But at the moment the biggest offender is the AAHT that suppress badly.

I was talking about 1v1.

2v2 as USF vs Ost on Crossing (or most 2v2 maps) is the same story as before: Grens and MG42 are broken. Sniper isn't the issue at all. If anything them using a sniper is just giving you a small chance to maybe overrun them but it's unlikely to happen.

In 3v3 and 4v4 sniper is pretty meh all things considered. If you're playing as a team of 2 or more USF becomes absurdly strong on laney maps like redball and whiteball due to pathfinder abuse. You can just ignore the Ostheer sniper pretty much and auto win the game unless the Stuka gets a knockout barrage early.

1vs1, we don't see sniper vs USF at high level because nobody play USF on tournament unless they're forced to. And if high level players were forced to play USF vs Ostheer the entire tournament we'll probably see again mechanized every single game.

Ostheer is broken at the moment because of the HMG42+pio vision+4xgren spam vs USF, if you manage to catch a RM squad and force him to retreat on the first minutes of the game that's almost an instant GG, we've seen it specially at high level.
Adding a sniper on top of that is just too much, there is no way you can touch it. The Balance team nerfed hard USF early game and until you get the Lt you're numerically inferior + the fact that RE is beyond trash early game. So no, HMG+Sniper+gren+Pio vs RE+2xRM doesn't give any advantage to USF in term of map control, quite the opposite here. Then once the LT hit the field, Ostheer also get its next unit.

Even if you rush the M20, you get around 30 seconds opportunity to push the sniper before the 222 also enter the field.

Would the balance team have nerfed Ostheer early game instead of sniper for sure that would have been better but probably impact the match-up vs UKF and Soviet. So they do nerf the sniper instead.

Even when USF first launched, before all of the nerfs took place playing as Axis USF were always the easiest Allied faction to deal with and the win rates were fairly even.

After all the nerfs that took place due to the balance team and their infinite wisdom, USF is basically easy mode for AXIS and the only reason any Axis player would lose is because the USF player happened to be significantly better not because the factions were balanced.


Almost every single USF unit was hit with nerfs.
Ambulance
Rear Echelon (even volley fire was nerfed)
Rifleman
Rangers
USF Mortar
WC51 Military Truck
M2HB Heavy Machine Gun
M20 Utility Car
M5A1 "Stuart" Light Tank
M1A1 75mm Pack Howitzer
M8 "Scott" Howitzer Motor Carriage
Calliope
Pershing



Besides the AT Gun, AA Halftrack and Sherman almost every single thing USF has has been nerfed, some units outright gutted into oblivion. USF is the most nerfed faction in the history of COH 2. Seems like balance team wants USF to make Rifles and only that so they continue to spam MG-42's and they can have fun playing a tower defense game.


It would be nice if the Stuart was on par with the T-70 like it used to be before it was gutted. USF has so many vehicles that are a waste of fuel and don't serve a role or purpose.



USF Mortar - Lets give USF something to make besides Rifleman since Rear Echelon are useless...USF players make mortars making use of combined arms but mortar actually does damage ends up getting nerfed so that it can only tickle enemies while they laugh and sit under constant barrage never losing a model.

M20 used to be a good shock unit but it inconvenienced Whermacht because apparently making a SdKfz 222 Armored Car or gasp using mines was too difficult so it got nerfed.

Stuart got nerfed because it threatened OKW blobs and making 2 raketenwerfers was too difficult so instead lets gut the unit so OKW blobs can run free without opposition.

Great we can still use Pak Howitzers so it will be fine then that gets nerfed afterwards.


Ah yes now USF has to use M8 Scotts now that Mortars, Pak Howitzers, M20 and Stuart has been nerfed to deal with infinite Axis blobs and team weapons, lets nerf that too.

USF - "We still have Calliope though!" and wait here it comes...Calliope Nerfs...

The only thing the balance team has succeeded in is nerfing USF into the ground with their endless crusade of nerfs.


I find it rather appalling that a faction missing out on so many tools (Non Doctrinal Mines, Non Doctrinal Artillery, No Sniper, Lack of Good Sight Options without getting PathFinders for example) has nothing special. M20 is trash, Stuart is trash, M8 Scott is trash.

The only thing that really keeps USF in team games is the ambulance.

Every factions have been nerfed and redesign, your post doesn't make much sense on that point. I tend to think USF was pretty much on the right spot before Scott over-nerf.

The problem with the balance team is their biais toward their preferred faction and how they carefully never nerf too much their preferred toys compare to other. They don't care to overnerf the Scott because they don't use it, they do care to not overnerf Ostruppen because they like to use them. They care to never overnerf the Brumbar or the Sturmtiger even if they know those units are problematic specially on team game because they use them a lot.

The underlying issue here is that if they would nerf the Brumbar to a fair and balance state, they would automatically feel issues in their own game and probably tend to nerf the opposite factions as to compensate their lose of "skill".

Why not Vet1 flare for the USF mortar? It doesn't have vet1 ability and the unit is quite trashy compare to other faction equivalent, at least it would give another incentive to use it.

Since USF is the faction with the less stock reco unit (only m20) that would probably be better than the Major already overburden with many functions.