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lol assault grens with faust would just be so lol. Whats the point of making regular grens if you do this?

Give them shrek upgrade while youre at it. MVGame.

Grens are a very good jack of all trades unit. Able to be kitted for close or long range. They also have a long range grenade.

You'd get the choice of
Gren: Jack of all trades, reliable unit
Ostruppen: Cheap, inexpensive, good at capping/spongeing and reinforcing crew weapons.
Agrens: Good at pressuring/protecting MG's from flanks.

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1. Depends on playstyle. The LMG does pretty insane long range damage (8 dps?) but can only be fired stationary. While the Bar does some alright long range damage (3 dps?) but can be fired on the move, is very dangerous close range, and you can have two of them compared to one lmg. Both upgrades do more damage then Garandes.

2. Bulletins like that are sadly very negligible in the grand scheme of things. If I recall, Accuracy > Reload > cooldown as far as importance. Some Bulletins are outright better then others. (USF veterancy and grenade range come to mind). It should effect both though.

3. The answer is no because I think they are Captain_Riflemen. The captain can get a bulletin to increase his squads veterency so I think they are in fact different bulletin wise. As far as effiency without the bar they are 4 Garande and 1 Thompson. The Thompson is very dangerous up close or mid range, so therefore a Captain or LT is a better version of a rifle squad (combat wise).

4. Rangers cost a lot of MP to call out and maintain. I believe 380 MP? Then I think it's like a 35 MP reinforce cost? If it's super late in the game it can be worth it. The problem with rangers is that they take a long time to start paying themselves off. After gaining some veterancy they begin to outshine most squads. There is no reason to not get their Thompsons. My personal opinion is you want 1 squad of them if you do use them, but if you want more go for it.

5. Actually it can be, because Rear Echelons have pretty good accuracy bonuses for their veterency that buffs the damage of the fancy weapons. Thing is their reinforce cost is like, 26 MP? Whereas riflemen are 28MP to reinforce but are more hardier. Riflemen scale really well is all. If you go for a mechanized strat Echelons can both fight and repair vehicles fast so it's not all that bad of an idea imo.

6. The E8 has more health and a better main gun then a regular sherman. The M4C fires incredibly fast with a pretty good main gun. Most people find fire rate to be better but it's preference.

7. Pershing has the armor and health of a panther, but more lethality then a tiger tank. So basically a squisher/more lethal tiger tank.

8. This one is a bit more complicated. Riflemen with upgraded weapons (Double Bars, LMG's) should beat Volks. But things are random so we'll talk about ways to counter it as USF and common build orders.
A. Some people go 3 rifle into LT, Ambo for the free Bar and MG that can put the hurt on OKW. Though you are very vulnerable to light vehicles.
B. Some people go Quad Rifles, Ambo, into Captain for a safe build.
C. Here are the things that "counter" infantry as USF: Double Bars, LMG's, MG's, Sherman M4C or E8, Vanilla Sherman with HE rounds, Mortar Carriage, Rangers/Paratroopers, Calliope.

"Churchill Avre = Stormtiger, Avre is a crappier version of it. "

was the argue i think is false, because new ST is much weaker than before patch. thats what i said.

Avre has 35 range

ST has 40 range

Infantry have 35 sight range.

Point of a ST is to sneak up in FoW, fire at a squad capping a point, wipe it then retreat. Your opponent can see your unit while you cap a point but you can't see the ST if he plays it smart. Avre drives right up to a unit alerting them of it's presence. This is also in team games by the way where the ST can shine, no one uses these units in 1v1. Scouting can be far harder in team games due to the usual walls of defense. The existence of a ST also causes paranoia since the opposing player never knows if the ST is attempting to snipe a squad. Hence why the Avre is a crappier version of said ST. As I said, if the ST couldn't fire from fog it would be a crappier version of the Avre.

Personal opinion is that Rifle Company is probably the best/hidden commander for USF at the moment.

Removal of Smoke means sprint became that much better
Removal of Smoke means flares became that much better
Jackson can combo with new E8
White Posph comes in real early in CP for what it does
Flamethrowers are always useful and makes your Rear Echelon support that much better

I've been trying out tactics with Airborne, Pathfinder is still utterly worthless. Although the P-47 rocket strafe is amazing now, it's very situational. It apparently can't hit stugs (Which is what Ostheer spams) and you basically bank on 12 CPs and horde your muni's (which can be a bad thing for USF). On the flipside Airborne infantry are awesome and bypassing tier tech is nice.

Anyone feel like Airborne with LMG's actually suck? I don't know what it is but despite having 2 LMG's and firing on the move I don't seem to kill anything with them. Then on the flipside them with Thompsons destroy anything. It's like a contradiction I don't understand. Maybe I've just been getting unlucky. Haven't fooled around with Recon, but it seems pretty good.

how can a tank without a turrent, can´t reload while moving better than a tank with turrent und reload on the move?

since patch the ST cannot shot above shotblocker,has less range, is slow, make less dmg and must back to base after the one shot to reloading.

As long as the Sturmtiger can shoot from the fog of war it has an advantage over the avre. On the flip side if it couldn't fire from fog it would be a crappier version of the avre for sure. Reloading on the move means jack shit if it can't hit anything.

@Inferno

Also you forgot the centuar which is an ostwind on steroids. Some people even deem it worthy to build over a cromwell.

For pros and cons

Cromwell =
Pros: Cheap, good at close range, has smoke.
Cons: No MG's, Misses a lot (Imo).

Firefly =
Pros: Long Range, High Damage, High Burst(with tulips), The best TD in the game (imo).
Cons: pricey and slow reload times.

Comet =
Pros: High Armor & Health matches that of a panther, get's damage smoke, gets crew grenade
Cons: No MG, slightly worse then a panther in a duel.

Churchill =
Pros: High health pool, can deploy a line of smoke, pretty hard to reliably kill.
Cons: Can feed veterancy, it's main gun is rather weak, long repair times, slow.

Crocodile =
Pros: High anti-infantry potential, high health pool, can still fight other tanks
Cons: It's slow, long repair times (Honestly probably has very few cons)

Valentine =
Pros: Has some Anti-infantry potential, can maphack to see opponent
Cons: Comes too late, is pretty expensive, scales really poorly.

Avre =
Pros: Good at killing static units, wipe potential, high health pool.
Cons: Reload times, telegraphs pretty hard, slow