Profile of Esxile

Some ideas

- Disable capture when building for all units (would also apply to wires and mines)

- Add a cost to sandbag, manpower or munition.

- Put sandbag behind vet1 or tech

Scoped garands do have twice the dps of normal garands at long range, so that could be it. Not counting crits, since they don't apply to vehicles.
However, the best weapons against light vehicles are the ones with low accuracy (SMGs, mostly). Kubels, for instance, have a target size of 14, so every single round an infantryman fires will hit the vehicle.

Assault engineer are great if you manage to close the distance but it's kinda hard sometime.

Since the first PF arrive at the same time the first RM it also helps a lot and PF are usually vetting faster than rifles.
Anyway there are many reasons that are not necessarily connected to a vacuum dps comparison.

I still believe kubel are doing too great at least vs USF and I can understand why I regularly see dual Kubel start vs USF on some maps.

That doesn't make any sense, Riflemen have roughly the same DPS against a Kubel as Pathfinders. Pathfinders may have a slight edge in firepower because of higher weapon damage. But Rifles have significantly more effective hitpoints (412 vs 320).

Try it. Pathfinders do way better than vanilla riflemen, maybe something to do with the critical shot I didn't really analysed the why.

People tend to think I only speak of my own experience. I've witnessed the increase in use of Kubel in 2vs2 and by extend seing many 2 kubels start especifically vs USF players (not only vs me) with good success in denying map presence for the first minutes of the game, which make me wonder if a 210 manpower/no fuel unit should be so effective vs 280 manpower units.

Anyway I would welcome more argument about the kubel other than -AHAH kubel OP or trying to discuss my own skills. As I said I have no difficulties to stay in cover fighting Kubel until it retreats, the problem is the effectiveness of this strategy because riflemen have low damage output vs this specific unit.

Of all the early game vehicle this is probably the only lasting longer in any game thanks to it share veterancy. After the 2 firsts engamenent you don't really need anymore to put it on the front line unlike UC or M3. I regularly see kubel living 20 minutes uncontested because they're so useful on the backline and atgun/LV/mediums miss more than they hit them and they just drive super fast out of reach for the second shot.

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Early game use it as meat shield, once vet1 keep it a bit behind to assist dps and let it get his shared vet accumulate. Use or abuse of the detection ability anytime.

For a 210 manpower unit, that's too much cost effective.

Particular grief: too good vs vanilla Riflemen, 70 manpower difference and a bleed capability on riflemen that's over the top. I constantly see in 2vs2 many good OKW players building 2 Kubel vs USF because they're so effective vs them. You can lock riflemen behind cover for a really long time since they do jack shit dps on the kubel. Then even if you lose one kubel it doesn't matter since how much advantage you took from it, you just need to snowball now.

My proposal:

Balance Kubel vs riflemen should be adjusted. Kubel shouldn't be used so effectively as meatshield vs Riflemen. Even Pathfinders are 10 time better, That's actually my constant counter on map where dual kubels are too effective but honestly being force to pick a commander to counter two kubels .

Dectection ability should come with a greater downside. Maybe force a static mode once on detection mode with a couple of second to activate/disactivate so It can't just evade anything on demand.

I wonder why atnade exist in that case.