Nice guide overall.
I have a question tho, I am having trouble fighting ostheer early sniper (high-level opponents use it all the time). It seems that when the enemy has good micro I have no way to kill his sniper. They can win infantry fights with either osttruppen spam or 5man grenadiers because my sections are weakened by sniper constantly picking them off. I am forced to take tremendous amount of manpower bleed and lose map control.
I have heard that good micro with UC is the only way to fight this but it is so easy to be fausted as grens are already present all around the map. Even mass small arm fire is enough to shoot my UC to low health, rendering it useless for quite some time. Any more in-depth tips to counter this strategy? It seems so abusive to UKF. Can you share any experience fighting early sniper opening?
The key is to not to kill the sniper (you probably wont if he`s payin attention,maybe you get lucky) but actually to make it useless by making the sniper come where you want,shoot one shot then retreat,in order to do this keep youre UC allways moving,scouting,never bloob,allways have something on youre flank,you have a window when that sniper takes the place of a squad for opponent,make it retreat 2-3 times and the map should be yours, he will be forced to wait on a point untill sniper comes back