Profile of Alexzandvar

Except the 1919 is doctrinal. The BAR is indeed good; not LMG42 good but not a waste of Muni; Bazooka may actually be more interesting with (effectively) reduced cost.

Yeah Zooks obviously need a small muni cost reduction but Iv found them to be working quite well now that mediums are more common and there are far less heavies running around. Them being packaged with BARs was an enormous help.

BAR right now if fine IMO, you can give it to everyone and it works. LMG42 is fine because it's limited only to grens.

1919 needs to be limited to 1 per squad and "offensive stance" needs to be fired into the sun.

The Vet-scaling just plain wrong. I'd have to look it up but its not good enough to compete with Grenadiers of either flavor. Also the Conscript exists which immiedately makes the "all other" argument wrong.

Vet scaling between basic infantry units is very, very similar. To wit;

Grens:

Unlocks the 'Field First Aid' ability
+40% accuracy,
-20% cooldown, -25% recharge time for Panzerfaust, -23% received accuracy
Cons:
Unlocks the 'Trip Wire Flares' ability
+40% accuracy, +25% molotov range
-20% weapon cooldown, -23% received accuracy, -25% AT grenade recharge
Volks:

-10% received accuracy
+30% accuracy, -20% weapon cooldown
Passive Healing, -10% received accuracy
+40% sight range, +30% accuracy
-30% cooldown, -30% reload

Riflemen:

Unlocks the 'Anti-Tank Rifle Grenade' ability
-23% received accuracy, -20% weapon cooldown
+30% accuracy, -50% ability recharge time, +25% grenade range

As you can see the only real outlier here are Volks which don't get any vet 1 ability other than just being harder to hit. The reason why Volks vet bonus's are good is because the unit itself is literal trash outside of just toating a shrek around and capping points. If it didn't have vet that was good there would be no reason to even make them.

IMO the only change rifles need to vet is for the anti-tank grenade to be bundled in the USF grenade package and the vet 1 to give a small received accuracy bonus to make them slightly more durable. Also elite riflemen should just be removed and replace with an ability that makes rifleman vet up faster in general.

It doesn't help that this is the only tank class they can use at the moment (Non-Alpha testers don't get excited)

It's functionally what most factions now only use with heavies being pushed back and limited to one.

This may be more a symptom of AT being hilariously easily available for frankly anyone to get a hold of; a lot of larger sized games I'll see Soviet players take SU85s for the focused-sight, and keep around a legion of SU76's. I'm not really sure what would fix that without rendering the SU76 a potato again; aside from making the other AT options more attractive, but that opens up a whole new bag of problems.

I think thats more a problem with the SU-76 being to cheap/coming to quickly. Yes USF's tanks hit the field with there is AT out but it's not like OKW or Ost tank's don't either. The only faction that can field tanks retardly fast is Soviets at the moment.

I'll admit now I haven't played 1v1 in a very long time (and it was hard to find a game at the time), but reading the words "OKW" "Microing" and "infantry" in that order does not seem to happen. That is to not say its not punished hilariously fast by Scotts, SU76s, Pak-Howis and lucky Zis's (or good Shock-troop play). Annoyingly this blob comes back pretty fast if the med-truck is set up in a good spot, so you will basically attrition them down if they're not capable of renewing forces quickly (although again, ZSU-Quad makes it hilariously easy for soviets; still not sure why its 270MP). That was less a jab at OKW and more at people just attack-moving.

Blobbing as OKW is basically a death sentence these days with how good artillery is (and M10 crushing for that matter....) It's much better to simply spread units out while still keeping them supporting each other. You will never have enough fuel to match the enemy with tanks as OKW so you need to overwhelm them with infantry (which translates to just map controlling the fuck out of the enemy and having 2-3 flanking forces ready at all times.)

Probably true; early offensive power isn't actually all that great early game compared to dumping a Kubel at cut off and giving the other guy the finger while STURMPIONEERSGUNJAMGUNJAM move past suppressed units like a cop spraying protesters with mace. Faster access to the fun-stuff does help them out alot but its more highlighting what the actual unit problems are.

Kubels really aren't hard to counter, yeah OKW has an aggressive early game but that's because the entire theme of the faction is based around a rush to get as much territory as possible then lock it down with trucks. Playing defensive as OKW will lose you the game, but that's twice as true for USF. Thing is; OKW has gotten a lot of the alpha changes its needed to be less gimmicky while USF has not.

>Also, isn't an machine gun team designed to be a TERRITORY denial tool.
Mhm, maxim?

The maxim is actually really good at denying territory now since it got AoE suppression. It can shut down flanks by repositioning.

It's an Ostwind combined with an OKW Flak HT.

Easy to do sensible USF changes:

1. .50 cal to HQ, smoke grenades (10 muni) on Volks and a HE shell barrage on the LeiG to help counter entrenched positions. This way Volks get more useful and USF gets something to support itself early in the game.

2. T0 or T1 mortar

3. M10 crush reduced so it no longer can wipe 3 squads in 2 seconds, price increase, and it's now built after the player unlocks either T1 or T2 (assuming you have the commander)

4. USF AT gun's Tungsten shells are now free but have a much longer cool down on them.

5. Captain and LT don't come with BARs or Zook's but can be purchased on them for a significantly reduced muni cost. Also after you Unlock the captain Zooks a reduced to 40 muni each and BARs after you unlock the LT are reduced to 50 muni each.

6. Jackson health increased to 560, damage reduced to 160, reload reduced by 1 second. HVAP shells give guaranteed penetration but no extra damage.

7. Health on the Eight Eight increased to 800, health on the vet 2 Ost PIV/ OKW PIV increased to 800 to compensate.

thoughts?

I feel match-ups vs USF in 1v1 is almost a piss-take, I don't even need to micro and I win.

Dusty I am still waiting for your guide on how USF is fine just spam zookas lelelhueuheu. Alexxaenzer please stop talking about your experience in 3v3

I wonder how many 2v2 replays I need t upload before this stupid meme dies