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TBH I feel the problem is in the vision of mg - they should have further vision (even further that infantry) so that they can start shooting and pin earlier. The pinned squad shouldnt be able to throw grenades and crawl too quickly to the machine gun. The mg should be countered by flanking. Now the pinned squad very often inlicts more damage on the mg crew than the mg itself on the pinned squad. I understand the idea was for other squads to spot for mgs - in reality it means you need 2 squads to guard one approach and it is inefficient. Another thing is the babysitting effort for mgs is a havy burden especially together with setting up At. usually a player who has numerous rifle squads is in better positions as its easier to control and quickly react to attacks.

All true. But most of the mentioned things can be done by GIs with the same results. I love suggestions such as keep them in cover. Opposite armies can keep units in cover as well. To me a unit which has to be kept in cover to be useful shouldnt be so expensive and definitely shouldnt require tech. All in all they are useful only when U are a better player than Ur opponent. Skilled players wont let U use them in such preplanned conditions. They will force them to retreat and finish the squad on the run. If U keep them in cover U will be wasting lots of manpower doing nothing for too long. Just remember that as wehr U have to tech and U have fewer units on the field. One more unit waiting in cover waiting means Ur opponent can atyack somewhere else. Basically ost ost is terribly underperforming and players only hope to find magic solutions to serious balance problems.

To my mind it evolved into the complete collapse of ostheer in 1v1
Just a handful of problems:
1. Mgs countered easily in many ways - even frontal assaults.
2. Grens countered by anything - mortars, at tank guns, any infantry coming up from the front even when U're in cover, they lose models while other fractions first lose health (often there are still 4 men on the us (especially) or soviet squads with barely any health left.
3. Huge teching costs and a lot of time devoted to teching and building.
4. Even medics work silly (US just presses a button (no muni cost) and all models heal instantly vs. ost two medics - it takes more time before you can have full health sqads back on the field.
5. Tanks easily crippled by mines or nades than finished by jacksons, bazookas, at, planes, or just superior numbers of tanks - if Ur opponent is not insanely careless they won't lose tanks too quickly and wait until they have a few and will circle anything U have, etc.
6. No frontal assault units - panzergrenadiers can only be effective on defense - even then very often too easily lose models when full health.
7. Paks easily countered by HE rounds.
8. Units with very limited uses and no versatility (despite whatever they tell about grens - other units are just much more versatile) vs my favourite US units where vehicles self repair + cap with crew out + pop out bazooka + have minelaying abilities + they don't even need to give order to the crew to repair after they leave the vehicle
9. Cost differences between units are completely unjustified (cheap and versatile units vs not better and costly ost units)
10. Extremely pathetic at maps with no open sections.
11. No proper mines that actually surprise the better opponents + extreme fragility to mines because of 4 man squads.
12. No ability to build sandbags; they are totally dependent on map cover, which means good players always know when to expect ost units.
13. Total problems with counterattacking - especially when it's the enemy who uses the cover.
14. Worse grenades (molotvs denying cover, pineapples shredding everything.
15. Static nature of the army makes it voulnerable to any support weapons.

Those granades are extremely easy to dodge - especially that you're dodging with units that are good at shooting while moving. USF granade wipes squads much more and makes grenadiers move when dodging them which makes them not shoot and gives you time to close on even if the granade it's dodged.

When it comes to being pushed - with wehr you lose a lot then (team weapons and so on). When they are used against ostheer there is no easy method countering them (no smoke and units that deal damage when closing). Another problem is that grens are not an offensive unit - they can't charge any unit especially in cover - the possibility of coming back is almost zero. And that's the biggest problem of grens - if the ostheer player is better than the usf player they wil manage to defend somehow with a bit of luck. But once they are forced to retreat its gg unless usf player makes some really serious mistakes. Grens and mgs are terrible on the attack against a similarly skilled player. The biggest problem is that they suck on the move and close fight. I don't understand sometimes why there is no upgrade such as mg44 or mp5 instead of lmg to make them fight close better.

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Anyway, I feel that some vision buff might do the job. Now when an mg sees the unit there's too little time for it to start shooting. (When it has a spotter it's better but again you need another unit to accompany it which means a lot of manpower not doing too much) It could solve some problems as unpacked mg would see the unit approaching earlier and had time to unpack and pin the unit before the unit gets into granade/flame range.