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Would this include the upgrade to access vehicles and support weapons like the pak howi? I assume you mean both Lt. and Captain, not major. I personally think it could be viable but some on the balance patch team and relic probably wouldn't want USF to change so radically.

Didn't think of major (however, if the resurce math was done right, who knows?). But I thought of cpt and Lt. I'd more or less add the cost of the second unlock and part of the officer's price and unlock the tier with the button from the last patch. I'd let players build everything from those tiers then including the officer.

Speaking from experience, I played in the Balance Patch Tournament 2 weekends ago so I know a bit about how the patch operates unless they changed things in the last week. I don't think Riflemen are a huge concern yet but maybe I haven't played someone who can use them super effectively vs me in the patch.

Do You think it would be viable to use the new tech button to unlock the whole officer tier but not get the officer (it could be bought later from the given tier if the player wanted it but wouldn't be obligatory)?

What about making it possible to tech without a squad? It would give so much more versality and solved, to some extend, upkeep and popcap issues.

Hi. Nice discussion with lots of good arguments (definitely this forum is not garbage as sb wrote earlier) I'll add my bit

From my perspective the key of the problem is that USF faces two completely different opponents (OST and OKW). Ost is a static and 4 man squad army - mortars and indirect fire weapons decimate them so much that balance team tries to tone such weapons down. On the other hand, OKW is highly mobile and much better close quarters. If they keep moving, indirect fire needs to be much more potent to even hit them. This leads to problems with balancing the game.

It also partially answers the reason why ost mortar was laser guided - to be effective against moving USF units it had to be because against players who move their usf infantry, mortars are generally bad (USF can move a lot as their dps on the move is few times higher that, for example, of grens). Of course USF players who camp suffered from laser ghuided mortars but I think that was the intention. (A fun fact is that there was a patch a few years ago when ost mortars really quick fired to compensate for playing against units that are good on the move from USF and Sov - people really complained and colled them turbo mortars - still back then the same issue was being addressed). I don't think it is easy to balance stuff like that and there will always be some problems here. My solution would be to maybe make grens 5 man squads after maybe last battlephase or like rear echelons with vet 3 - then it would be so much easier to balance indirec weapons such as mortars, pak howies, scotts etc. Still, lets test the new patch as it looks promising and thank you again the team for making the game even better

When you have lots of infantry it's better as you have good, possibly 3 vetted REs with/or Rifles with double BARs and Zookas, being able if not to kill, then to scary off even Panthers and Obers with just a little problems, while Support Weapons always need a back up and can't do 2 jobs at the same time, like ATG can't fight infantry as USF, but Rifles with double Zookas can, especially considering grenades.

Generally you are right and I agree. However, I'd like to have more options to make USF builds more diverse. Remember that a lot of infantry may be very manpower heavy because of reinforcement and upkeep cost. Sometimes I feel sort of happy to lose one of my inf squads because I have more room for more elite squads.