Well, either timing delayed about 45-60 seconds (longer teching?), or cutting the anti-infantry aoe down a bit. It definitely doesn't need both nerfs though.
I think one would see more zook spam if there was no M1, or M10 in the faction. There really isn't a need. Or maybe it's not done because no high level player ever tested it out. It might be secretly op.
More on topic. MP40's when we already have Sturms? Ew. I would rather just take away the shrek and make the raketen a buffed up AT unit to compensate, with a snare given to Volks. And I'm not even a fan of that.
Why not start with a small nerf to shrek long range accuracy?
Don't you think that's a problem with both the Aec and the Quad timing rather than OH been on a bad shape ?
I think that's what the OP is actually getting at. His topic title is sorta click bait as this whole time he's been talking about how OST is bad against USF and UKF because of those shock style light vees.
At least that's what I've gotten out of this so far....
UKF should not be viable just because it has an over performing unit. UKF should not live or die by the AEC's buff/nerf status. That's not good design.
If we're arguing that UKF will be totally useless without the AEC as is, then perhaps the band-aid needs to be ripped off again so that Relic can't just point to the currently good win/loss rates and say the entire UKF faction is in a good spot.
This is a game, it would make mines too strong to shut down lines of approach. One teller on a road covered by an mg42 shuts down all vehicles until you can hit it with a mortar or something. It requires too much micro to counter if you need to sweep each individual mine before moving units through it.