Profile of Mirdarion

I definitely agree (miragefla did too! ), it's not the only things to do...but they're definitely the biggest parts because at least a guy moving a blob of BARs with a weak mortar can't immediately drive off your machine-guns that they're walking into to murder your infantry.

Actually, they can. The Riflemen-blob alone can do that, the mortar isn't even necessary to do so. This becomes especially dangerous with someone who knows how to play the game and how to abuse it: Instead of simply blobbing all his units on the same spot, he will slightly (just barely enough to escape area suppression) space his units apart, and then have at least one Rifleman Squad run up to the MG and murder it. This works mostly, because the MG 42 turns (not by tearing it down and setting up again, but by switching to other targets in its arc of fire) like shit, and switching from target to target in an attempt to counter-micro doesn't help you, as the MG 42 can't do that (unlike any other machine gun in the game).

There are some ways to prevent this, but at this stage in the game the USF player should hold all the initiative necessary to adapt to these attempts (which in itself is indicative of the real problem here, and that is not simply "Riflemen OP!!!111"). I've wrote at length about the issue of the impossibility to grab initiative already, but since nothing has changed since then (well, apart from us having more anime skins to slap on out units) I will have to continue doing so for a while - this is still a strategy game, and as such some of the basic rules connecting all Kriegsspiel-derived games still apply.

P.S.: Please note, that this only applies to better players anyway, few of which will go for such a low blow. That doesn't mean that the possibility of doing so should be there.

If rifles only had bars, they would have to close in. Bars unlike lmgs do drop off in damage with distance significantly, thereby making it necessary to flank and close in.

That's based on the assumption that the double-BAR upgrade doesn't turn Riflemen into excellent any-range units. Hint: That assumption is wrong. Riflemen with 2 BARs even at vet0 are accurate enough, to fight anything from any range without lagging behind enough for their "squad-size to DPS"-ratio to become hampered enough to not be competitive with long range units.

And here we come to the problem, that the game heavily favours short range units, assuming they can close in unharmed enough (which Riflemen can at vet3, thanks to their received accuracy). At long ranges, damage drops off for ALL handheld weaponry. It drops off more on some weapons than on others, but in general, long range engagements go on longer and give both opponents less chances of actually wiping the enemy's units (unless the enemy is braindead, that is). On top of that, DPS differences at long ranges don't differ as strongly as they do at short ranges - in other words, a short range weapon is usually massively superior to a close range one (compare BARs to lMG 42s) at close range, while the long range weapon only makes a relatively small difference at long range (again, compare BARs to lMG 42s).
This is of course not exclusive to Riflemen, considering the general problems of focus on long range vs. short range units.

Now, nobody wants to make short range units completely useless by having them die while approaching the enemy, but as it stands the game doesn't properly emulate the lethality of long range weaponry at long ranges, while it does show the lethality of close range weaponry at close ranges. So instead of simply buffing long range performance of long range weapons, a nerf to the long range performance of close range weaponry would be in order - and here we could also finally implement the difference between assault rifles and SMGs, by differing their damage profiles.

See you in 1 vs 1 Mirdarion, bring your empty opinions and salt with you.

So do you have any actual arguments, or are you just going to spout the same rubbish over and over again? Because if it is the latter, I will know which useless combination of letters (calling them sentences or even "replies" would give you more credit than you deserve) to ignore in the future.

It doesn't tho.... Bruh don't camp and you be fine

That advice is about as useful, as telling a Brit player to keep his infantry constantly on the move. Which would be less dumb than your advice, because a Brit player doesn't have to rely on combined arms as much as Ostheer, because his core infantry is significantly better.

I don't agree with a lot of things being said by both sides in this thread (one half here sounds like "Everything is OP!" while the other half is in full damage-control mode "GIT GUD!"), but this statement easily tops everything here in terms of how far away from the game's reality it is, not to mention how blatantly wrong it is.

Right, but we were talking about this guy:



Mobile Defenses Doctrine

(of which Lend Lease would be the Soviet equivalent).

Almost the same requirements apply, you either get it by registering your email-address with Relic, or simply by starting the game for the first time (depending on when you bought you game).