Profile of Euan

I agree with the premise. If you consider commander call-ins also, you can add another 3~4 frontline inf types to each of those armies, but again none to Brits (unless you consider Commandos as "frontline"). So yeah they are super limited. Also, The original design (two strong units, defensive Tommies and offensive sappers) was fair enough but as people figured out how to use them, they were discovered to be OP and got some well-deserved nerfs. The problem is that now, Tommies in green cover lose to Sturmpios approaching sometimes even across red cover, and Sappers are now just Pios without a flamer upgrade. So yeah, I don't know which, but either reverts or new units are needed.

I went back in detail over the patch notes to see what happened. Basically, it's a back-and-forth cycle of reverts where it was never decided if they should fulfill that original role, or turned into something else. As it stands, we fell into the trap of just turning Tommies into Grens and Sappers into Pioneers, because that was the easiest way to balance them. Likewise PIAT was turned into a Zook, accurate AT gun was turned into a Pak, Sniper Snare was replaced with regular Snare on Sappers. But as everyone knows, now the faction can't stand without those strong units / abilities and with all the holes. I think we have 3 options.

• Fulfill the initial design idea by reverting 2/3 of the nerfs, but increasing the price to match performance (e.g. 300MP Tommies / 260MP Sappers).
  
• Try and fill the holes. I mean you could make Assault Sections, Mortar, and Sapper Flamer non-doc and you've filled most of the holes. On the other hand you've just made a re-skinned Wehr.
  
• Do something different and interesting (new unit or whatever). It's a nice idea the truth is that we can't expect new models or anything at this stage of the game.
  

- Give the UC an ability to cap points if it doesnt have any upgrades

I think that's a good idea and could fix a lot more than it sounds. Tommies used to cap points faster to fix the expected lack of units & offensive power of UKF original design, it was taken away because... I don't know, because unique abilities are bad?

- Slightly buff the AEC's AI damage.

This I disagree, it had an MG buff a while back, any more would be OP. It's one of the only good units just now.

We are still pretending here that Bolster is an optional rather than a mandatory upgrade.

True that. I find the only valid strategy against OKW now is early bolster & Mills bombs. And it works fine, so I don't know, maybe Tommies are fine now and UKF players just need to remember to Bolster within the first 4 minutes these days.

I'll say what I've been saying for years...

Riflemen are good. As others have said, the problem is that they go up against Volks, which can do literally everything.

Sandbags for defense? Check.
Flame nade for offense and garrison use nullification? Check
Snare for fighting vehicles? Check.
All-ranges on-the-field upgrade? Check.
Cheaper and faster to build and reinforce? Check

In the hands of any competent player, this is just boring to play as or against. Change literally only one of these things and you'd have a more fun matchup... hell, even moving sandbags to SturmPios, or locking StGs behind T3, would be enough.

Hey mate, I'll try make it up to you for your review on my video

You're higher rank than me on OKW though, so feel free to take it all with a pinch of salt - just some ideas just in case they were things you didn't already pick up on, and all with the benefit of hindsight.

Play by Play

• 00:40 - This is totally subjective, but personally I don't think Kubel is a good choice in 1v1, and especially not on this map. With all the garrisons, an extra Volks squad would be better.
  
• 02:35 - This is why - RE have low accuracy but high fire rate, which actually gives them very high DPS against Kubel.
  
• 04:00 - JLI come out, you're aggressive and go for the cutoffs, then follow up with Flak HT - that's exactly OKW's strength at the moment, don't think there's any better play than this...
  
• 09:00 - Personally I would have gone for healing a little sooner, you had a lot of low-health models on the field until now
  
• 10:45 - Was very risky leaving the Flak HT there on such low health, in fact you should have lost it, but the guy completely misplayed with his M20 and didn't shoot at it for some reason (50cal can pen the rear armour easily, maybe he didn't know).
  
• 12:00 - You're floating a bit again and he keeps pushing your cutoff hard, I think the solution here might have been an MG34 (I don't usually go MG34 and Flak HT at the same time, but in this case one can defend the cutoff and one can attack). You went for double LeIG instead, not a bad choice in general but see my comment below).
  
• 17:00 - Good place for Schwer, but should have something ahead scouting / defending it while it gets built. Luckily he sends his Sherman to the other side so doesn't see it (and weirdly does nothing with it).
  
• 24:00 - The Schwer allows you to finally ignore one side of the map and throw all your inf to the other side, then your P4 wipes two Shermans & it's GG.
  

General comments
Most of the stuff I said above was super minor. But, you did get a bit lucky a couple of times, OKW can be make or break on single units (especially Flak HT & Schwer), but better not leave them to chance IMHO. Of course you were under pressure elsewhere so I do understand why you played it that way, and it worked out this time.

I think the most important thing I would suggest is that another frontline infantry squad would have helped a lot here. I think at least 4 Volks / JLI / etc. is actually the standard play these days (not counting Sturmpios, who can be busy with utility stuff). Or, even get an MG34, perhaps instead of a LeIG. Double LeIG is certainly not a bad choice, but then you had a lot of support units for only 3 frontline units; MG34 can at least hold the line.

IMHO I think that's what would have helped your map control a lot!

I agree with Tobis, it needs a buff but it's nice to retain some uniqueness in each army.

I would rather suggest that it gets a smaller / less random aim time, and an increased accuracy. Then you get a reliable, if squishy, vehicle counter (thanks to the already high penetration).

I'm indifferent about the moving camo, it's a bit silly but if you can sneak it all the way into the enemy territory, you deserve a LV kill, it will probably die on retreat anyway

Thanks a lot man, really appreciate the advice, read it in detail.

It sounds like my problem is trying to overextend in too many areas, when my stuff has to be supporting each other.

I guess I was trying to avoid turtling / camping and thus keep up map control, but maybe as Brits there's no choice in this patch but to first focus on one area, and push only when that's secure... or something

Cheers again