Profile of Glendizzle

Supposedly everything except armor stacks. I've gleaned this from other posts... so the ostwind should according to what I've been told.

this thing sees forever. too bad it was in a noobstomp.

Tier structure does leave something to be desired. I would suggest either swap the pack howie and the mg OR the m15.

Going lieutenant is mandatory currently. light vehicles are usf's greatest asset. It also comes with a huge liability. Going Lt. ,unless airborne, means no at guns. With bazookas being iffy it leaves a huge hole for and early p4/ostwind or p2 to totally wreck your army unless your m20 mines have clairvoyance. Going captain for the AT gun and nothing else is crappy too. Nothing else in that tier is something i want in even 10% of my games, let alone virtually every game. I always get an m20 or an m15 depending on map control/fuel situation.

Perhaps separating the light vehicles to one per tier would be good. leave the m20 with the Lt, and make it so you still need zooks if you go that route and have the m15 with the Capt. That would delay the fast m15 another minute and a half or so. giving wehr a better shot against it, but also giving the aaht an AT gun to back it up, making it a more viable fuel expenditure. I'm always leery of going m15, except if it's for the coup de grace, since it's so expensive and becomes obsolete fairly quickly. Giving it a bit of cover from armor(not light vehicles) would help it immensely. Giving something worthwhile to the captain would also be nice. I dont see any huge advantages to giving the pack howie to the Lt, but I don't see any disadvantages either.

Alternatively swapping the pack howie and the mg gives the mg and the AT gun to the captain, which would be nice to have them in the same tier. It still leaves the conundrum of choosing light vehicles or an AT gun, but at least all of the factions suppression(RE's don't count) isn't in the same tier.

Another course could be to have Lieutenant be m2, m20, 57mm while captain has pack howie, stuart, m15. This, I believe would signal the end of the captain tier except in games to mop up an overwhelming win. All it does is move a great vehicle to a crappy tier.

personally i think the m15 for pack howie is the best idea. it gives usf indirect fire earlier, which would be nice sometimes, while retaining the current AT situation for going Lt., which i believe is working as intended. You can do okay with zooks and m20, but not great. It would remove the all or nothing feel from the lieutenant though and removing the just nothing feeling from el capitan.


I will say that shifting things in the tiers a bit would make the USF more flexible, which is sorta supposed to be their thing, right..? Going hard AI or hard AT at that point in the game is a difficult, and consequential decision. Have a bit of both in both tiers. That way each is viable. t3 is well done, one ai, one at, one generalist. (id argue m4a3 is absolute garbage AT, but fuctioning in that role as a spotter for jackson it's passable.)

p.s. complaining about jackson three shotting p4 is ironic. jackson is three shotted by everything.....(and they cost the same) and four shotted by zooks. I agree about the units for teching putting wehrmacht behind, but i've no idea how to fix that aside from tech cost adjustments, but this is a USF thread... The popcap issue of officers can be a real problem late game. Having the space for only three vehicles late and your m20 somehow survived that long becomes troublesome.

2/3 of usf light vehicles are great. M20 and m15 are cost effective and not op. Stuart is just not good at anything. It's not durable or alternatively fast enough to be a good scout. It's not effective against infantry. It's only good for its gimmicks versus armor. So is it a light vehicle counter? Usf has the dangerous lights.... hrmmmm. I only get them if I'm having luchs problems and way off a m4a3. Stun it/engine crit set up for 57mm.

Playing against Americans with a single mg42 is not a good idea. That said, you can't delay t2 either. That'd be an even worse idea. I play it pretty static early. Grens spotting for each of my two mgs and flamer pio for those suppressed clowns who think they're going to throw a nade. Very important to have both "teams" close enough to support each other and cover flanks. I also like to mine the arc of fire if I expect MG will be there for more than one engagement. Negates smoking MG and charging through smoke and also negates crawling nade. I do think the mg42 should get at least a slight buff in one or two of: suppression, damage, or traverse. It's far too easy to Yolo a single squad in and screw over the mg. I do that often when playing usf. Run in the crack suicide squad to displace it and the instant it unpacks I rush in the rest of the infantry.

I don't know what/how exactly but I think it should be better in houses too. It's like a.d.d. changing windows and never fires. Perhaps manual selection of which window.

Also, for all mgs... Auto reload when out of combat. Nothing worse than a three round burst then reload when the blob approaches.