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Be sure to protect the mortar pit with a vickers/AT gun.

Use cover. Green cover will mean the MG will not suppress and will not do too much damage. Then rush in with a second squad from a different angle and get a grenade in the building.

So i need a mortar pit, AT gun, vickers and a squad of infantry with grenades just to take out one mg? Jeez....

Heres how my usual match goes: I run straight to a fuelpoint (as i know if they get it its essentially game over for us.), they greet my squad with the axis engineer squad, they completely rip me a new one and i have to fall back. By now they've taken half the map and hold the starpoints, and have spammed mgs in buildings. I try to smoke and throw a grenade at them, nothing happens except they lose a few healthpoints. Now they pin my troops and i have to fall back again. Then its just steady downhill from there. Even if i would flank the mgs my troops just cant kill them and they get wiped out. This game is extremely frustrating in this matter. Countless hours me and my friend have hit our head against the wall because it feels so overwhelmingly difficult to counter a single unit, let alone with other units supporting them. I've tried all of the advices here, none worked. Winning doesn't feel like an achievement since we either completely stomp our opponent and its evident they either afk or just somehow are even more terrible than us or then we just get annihilated completely. Even though my post was emotional and ranty i hope you can atleast try to understand where i'm coming from: I've been actually lurking these forums for a while because i was convinced that i was doing something wrong. I tried to look for counter strats or tips on how to do certain things (i.e counter german mgs) but all i've tried have not worked. It just feels like the enemy just walks through my units without effort, and if with almost 150hrs now i'm considered a total noob without any possible lack of sense about the game then damn is this game one of the hardest out there. I mean, 150hrs, is that REALLY so little? Not trying to rant this time just honestly a little surprised.

So im sorry i was not constructive enough, i understand. And im thankful to the people who tried to give me sound advice regardless. Just to clarify: I was not speaking solely about mg bunkers, i presented myself poorly. I just mainly struggle against mgs in buildings.

Ive played only for 138hrs of this game. So i'd like to ask how do you seasoned veterans counter the early axis MG spam? It feels super hard to counter considering how little effort it takes for them.

(Or countering mgs in general in the early game with just infantry.)

I play UKF.

1. According to your play time, balance doesn't affect you, no offence. You should stick with CoH2 if you like the style/setting, you won't find it elsewere. Try to polish your gameplay
2. If you insist, and don't mind changing the setting to something futuristic, try Dawn of War II: Retribution, with the Elite Mod. Amazing competitive mod, with an equaly amazing mature community, regular balance updates, tournaments, etc The only drawback is that the game is relatively old, so the engine is a bit outdated mechanic wise, for example there isn't a 'reverse' command for vehicles, stuff like that.
3. Starcraft II is hard, but it has more players and therefore you are more likely to get matched to opponenets at your level.

Ive already played Dow retribution quite a bit.

I play mostly OKW. The game feels does not feel balanced at all most of the time, and it can be incredibly frustrating. I do strongly believe that Axis are the strongest in most stages of the game.

However, it's still most fun.

I think so too, do you play OKW cause they are op or because they are fun?