Profile of Euan

Pathfinders can crit models on low health, so you wanna avoid attacking (especially rushing) them with low health squads, which can get sniped.

But they are fairly weak overall; just stay in cover, 1v1 they lose, if they are part of a blob bring an equal-size blob and take them out first.

The cannister shot, when the unit got released, was the wipe maschine 9000. Click and destroy. Prepare your anus. There is a reason why it got toned down.

Ah okay, heh, I must have missed that period.

I do remember once taking out 4~6 squads of PE once, in one shot, with the British Stuart, lol.

Surely we can find a middle ground 😂

As usual this should be in strategy forum, not balance forum...

The solution is already in your OP. :-)

Grens are not supposed to beat rifles, Volks are not supposed to beat IS at long range.

But... sturmpio are supposed to beat everything at close range, pio flamer is supposed to beat garrisons, mg42 is best mg, Wehr mortar is best mortar. StGs for Volks come early then they are supposed to beat things before enemy gets upgrades.

I agree Wehr is objectively harder to play but if you learn decent combined arms play and good MG micro, and coordinate with your teammates, early inf spam is very counterable, that's literally the base design of the game.

Luchs is maybe my favourite OKW unit. Get it as early as you can, micro closely and keep it at the right distance (never let it get snared), and run it around the map killing stuff.

As adamircz says it will force an AT unit from your enemy - then just run it to the other side of the map. Once more serious AT comes out, hang back with it and use it now and then for support, or to push off lone squads trying to cap, etc.

I think your Ost rank is already higher than mine (well, I hardly have time to play any more so my very short time in the Ost top 100 is far behind me...!).

But as a Brit "main" the thing I love about Ost is, of course, having tools for everything... and using them to really control one area.

Yeah, it is as you say exhausting, one of the hardest-work factions to play with more micro, no questions. So I personally find that, instead of doing grenspam, using your mortar, mg, Pak, sniper, not to mention the synergy from gren and pgren, can be unbeatable if you focus your energy into one area. Then, like I see a lot of Ost players doing, send your pioneers to cap (or a-move your grens) to try and grab something elsewhere when you have the chance. Then when that stops working, refocus your main effort into another area.

Then, 222 can help get you to p4, though don't fall into the trap of getting one every time as it's not always applicable (222, I mean... p4 is always always applicable ;-)

The T4 stuff is more of a bonus when you already have the upper hand, at least a little...