What would make this a troll post?Each and every time I attempted to play SOV T1 in 1v1 the OKW player whips out Fusiliers as a crutch so that he doesn't have to micro/use his brain as much like he would have to facing my Penals if he had Volks.
It's literally that simple, Fusiliers are a crutch that OKW players use when they feel like turning off their brain for 30min.Their supposed early game lack of DPS isn't even that noticeable if you just blob them up.Normally a lone Fusilier squad early game without their G43s wouldn't be able to stand up to any other mainline infantry rushing them, making it easy to punish an OKW who built more than 2 Fusiliers, but not even that is a valid tactic if he does what I have already described, they just become the same as Volks DPS wise without the fall-off late game.
Every time I try to play UKF with my 3v3 premade team sub rank 200 an OKW on the opposing side decides to go the easy way and just abuse JLI.I wonder who's idea it was for JLI to be countering an entire faction's playstyle just because OKW players were crying on forums about not being able to compete with UKF before it was nerfed into sorry state it is today.
They really aren't. I think there's definitely an argument to made that they have too much utility built in to their kit, but that's a different conversation.
In a 1v1 you should be able to completely bully them with penals in the early game. Once they get their upgrades it becomes a lot closer, obviously they're much better on the move and up close, but penals do pretty well against them at range. You also have the freedom to build a sniper, which the OKW player will have no reliable counter for if he goes fusiliers. Neither of these units even require you to commit to a specific doctrine.
I can understand them being difficult to deal with in giant blobs in larger game modes, but in 1v1 they have pretty clear weaknesess. Soviets are probably OKW's toughest matchup.