Profile of LoopDloop

Another factor I use Airborne is for Paratroopers to further add AI to my army since going CPT I give him bazooka's and his On Me Ability! is very beneficial to Paratroopers of either variants.

Also the posts by you on USF changes from the patch I do agree wholeheartedly

I've also always liked airborne and it still holds a special place in my heart but how do you deal with it being so manpower heavy? I used to use it at lower ranks where I could afford mistakes and didn't bleed as much (due to not being as properly aggressive).

First we need to get rid of "get out of jail free cards" in order to balance OKW.

OKW faction should behave like any other faction. If you make a mistake early on or f*uck it up, you should be punished. Period.

Thats how all GOOD Strategy games work. From Chess, through Starcraft, Aoe's to Civ and HoMnM series.

Having a Mr.Click Me that allows you to bypass any extended early game play or grevious mistakes is a fail on a game design Basis.

Yes, I've been talking about doctrines like Special Ops, Scavenger or Elite Armor.

Commanders should extend your capabilities and allow you to amend your playstyle. They should not save your a**. Period

It doesn't help that it's perfectly feasible to win as okw without even picking a doctrine ever.

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lol same. This after my more or less month-long hiatus too

The more riflemen you use, the more you bleed and the more you push out the usefulness of elite troops like rangers or paratroopers. You can give your vet 2 riflemen bars, or you can get a vanilla elite trooper squad around 3 CP. You should use Echelons and riflemen in tandem, but then what exactly is the point of elite troops? This new change doesn't really emphasize elite troop usage like he says, it just emphasizes USF using more combined arms.

I can't imagine dropping 400 MP that I had saved up for reinforcements, teching up, and purchasing upgrades to get a ranger squad. It instantly puts you behind unless you were saving a bunch of manpower by not using riflemen or stalling somehow.

Probably doesn't help that the veterancy on Rangers/Paratroopers doesn't even really get good until like vet 3. Which loh and behold Riflemen have one hell of a vet 3 in comparison.

I actually find that elite troops end up reducing bleed in the long run because they trade so much better than rifles when used correctly. For example, decently micro'd rangers attacking lone squads can often force a retreat and kill a lot of models without losing a single man, and can easily take on clumped infantry (looking at you volks blobs) as long as they pop out from a shot blocker or smoke and maybe throw a grenade if significantly outnumbered. Paras with Thompsons are for style points/the meme but are also super good at flanking and wiping squads on retreat especially with their active ability. They're also the same to reinforce as riflemen but come in a slightly less useful doctrine. With 1919s they are stellar support infantry and the only good long range usf infantry options.

The main problem is that it's really hard to field squads of elite infantry as usf since without mechanized (where you won't have any elite infantry) it's really hard to not bleed a ton in the early game since you don't have any support tools except the crappy mortar (i.e. they don't have anything like kubel or clowncar or snipers/a decent mortar or early accessible mgs). This I think is one of usf's major design flaws as every other faction has something like that and usf is really supposed to have the best early game, and it definitely can, but is hamstrung by that lack of bleed-cutting support. As brits, by using a UC and vickers and playing very smart, I can sometimes make it to the platoon cp without losing a single model, or with okw I can make multiple kubels or as soviets a clown car and snipers (the latter applies to ost, who also have mg42s too) but with usf that's basically impossible.

Wait so of all the patches the devs decide to post on this? Fixture of jerrycans with nazi symbols? Lolol

I would say that commandos can be really dangerous if controlled well. Even the pithy 4 man squads without demos can still wipe really well if pre-positioned to catch retreating troops with ambush bonuses, or just popping out of camo to turn the tide of an engagement and basically instawipe any support teams (which will even happen to very skilled players as there's basically not enough warning against light gammons out of cover to the point that it's a bit abusive). They are at face value a very inefficient squad though, especially since they cost significantly extra initially in all doctrines (compared to their "technical" baseline price of 350 for the normal squad).

Mattress and flamers are definitely more lethal at lower ranks though, and croc is very gud. Honestly though, I hate skipping the aec because the vet1 ability is insanely good, especially since it's not broken any more. Almost always results in a dead tank (even panthers/kts) if pulled off right and it can't really be countered except with good general awareness.

I personally still like commando regiment and vanguard better than mobile assault though, with that and special weapons being about even depending on situation in my opinion. Real commandos (the 5 man ones) do a pretty good job at wrecking infantry with good micro and ambushes, even stg obers or massed volks (the latter with grenades and/or good support). Commandos plus vickers and sections can be a beastly defensive or offensive force.