Profile of Lago

remove motor (didn't need it in the first place) and give USF riflemen ther smoke nades back

Remove the mortar and USF has no garrison counter until Captain or Major.

Pack Howitzer suppression was added several patches down the road.

Wait, they patched that in? relic whhhhyyy

It's a skillplane that does some brief strafing, then drops bombs at random. It's a pretty strange ability which does nothing most of the time and wipes squads the rest of it.

It's also being ditched in the next patch.

I do think that usf is not at all well designed to be skipping tech. Case in point: the bonkers decision to give lieutenant tier no reliable at options but two suppression platforms and captain tier no suppression platforms but two reliable at platforms.

Lieutenant Tier does have AT: bazookas.

USF's current tier holes are a result of patches, not the original design.
EDIT: corrected by elchino below

When USF came out, Bazookas could snipe infantry models, meaning a bazooka blob was fully capable of AT. Lieutenant Tier could zook up all their infantry and suffer little for it.

Captain Tier had an anti-infantry powerhouse in the form of the old Stuart and a suppression platform in the form of the old Pack Howitzer.

Okay, finished watching.

ACCURACY ON THE MOVE
You, for need of a better word, 'fidget' with your squads.

You constantly move them during engagements. They don't seem to be doing useful movement, they're just shifting around like it's something for you to do instead of watching them plink away.

The problem with this is every unit in the game is less accurate on the move. For some units, the penalty is as high as 50%.

Furthermore, if you move away from enemy units your squad will turn their backs and they'll do no damage at all. In a situation where you've got a stronger enemy force at point blank range to your squads, retreat, don't backpedal.

If you don't need to move a unit, don't. If they're in a good position, don't sacrifice damage by moving them.

COVER
Always use the best cover available in every engagement.

The yellow cover bonus is a 0.5 received accuracy, which means half the small arms shots at them will miss. The green cover bonus is 0.5 received accuracy and half damage, making your squad roughly four times more durable in green cover.

This is how a Conscript Squad beats a Sturmpioneer Squad: it sits in green cover as the Sturmpioneer squad approaches. The Sturmpioneer squad loses so many models on the approach that it's too weak to beat the almost unhurt Conscript squad once it's close enough.

Also remember that non-garrison cover stops working at point blank, so don't bother repositioning to cover in a melee.

You were fighting a lot of battles out in the open right next to decent cover. In one battle, you were next to a destroyed Luchs (green cover) and moved your squad into the red cover instead.

Got no good cover? Build it. Every faction has a unit that can build green cover (Conscripts, Volksgrenadiers, Infantry Sections, Rear Echelon Troops (tank trap), Pioneers). You can also use barbed wire to deny good cover to the enemy: wire off their side of it and only you can use that cover.

SHOCK UNITS
A shock unit is a vehicle that comes out before the enemy can properly deal with it. The Luchs and T-70 are excellent examples: they're bulletproof light vehicles that deal a lot of damage and hit the battlefield early in the game.

The thing about shock units is their value goes down as the game goes on and the enemy gets more powerful and more mobile AT out. If the window in which a T-70 would give you an advantage passes, skip the T-70. Go straight for the T-34 or KV-1. They're durable enough to survive on the late game battlefield and can penetrate medium tanks. A T-70 is a helpful thing to have if it survived from earlier, but it's not worth building at 22 minutes in.