If your "want to win" implies that its un-winnable otherwise, no. If your "want to win" means playing the game without shooting yourself in the knee, yes.
This is what has been posted in the first page of this thread:
Pathfinder and howitzer need to be good because riflemen are so bad. Worst mainline in the game by far. Such absolute trash.
Do you agree that Riflemen are "absolute trash" and that creates the necessity to for Pathfinder to be OP Yes or No?
You can litteraly find pro-player streaming those gamemodes to see how they they play USF. In 1v1 airborn is picked solely because it allows you to ignore USF tech and get AT gun+MG, no-one spams paths in 1v1 and no-one use airborn in 1v1 because of them.
Do they produce Pathfinder yes or no?
Speaking off, it even if we forget about pathfinders and imagine that every one plays infantry company. Again it completely changes how rifles are played, because of the LMG. So even if Airborn wasn't even picked, people in teamgames are just avoiding stock rifles gameplay to begin with.
And yet Urban assault with no LMGs is more popular than tactical Support with LMGs.
Claiming that Rifle company primarily is LMG is an oversimplification.
I mean if you want to look at facts objectively and not just push your narrative for the sake on continuous argument, they are actually completely in line.
I've yet to see any attempt to prove why rifles arent sucking balls in teamgames, besides "well win rates", despite people giving clear explanation and reasoning why rifles design isn't working in teamgames.
I am neither pushing any narrative nor I am not arguing contentiously.
What I have post is pretty clear:
Contrary to claims Riflemen are not crap/sucking balls (they might not be cost efficient but that isa difrent thing)
Contrary to claims Pathfinder do need to be OP because Riflemen crap
Pathfinder acting as core army units and Pathfinder/Scott combo need to fixed regardless of Riflemen performance.
If you want my opinion on, one the changes that affected USF the most, it was the buff to medics, that made USF faction going from having the best healing in game (allowing player to get more out of their Riflemen) ending up with one of the worse healing.
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