Profile of LoopDloop

Axis players want USF mainline infantry to not overcome their cheapest infantry but don't want USF to get an easier access to their support units to balance it.
USF design is screwed in any ways.

Yeah I've honestly given up on usf to some degree because it's just poorly designed. It's like they thought of all their options and took the shittier one every time. Let's make a tier with no machine gun and and at gun, but also give them a designated light vehicle hunter. And let's give the tier with a machinegun a flaktrack and no form of anti tank. Let's give them a squishy medium tank, a squishy tank destroyer, and a squishy mobile gun carriage(?) and no mines, except on a glorified kubelwagen that costs 340 manpower and 70 muni, but that's ok because they get 1 bazooka (on a squad with the same target size as weapon teams). And let's give them only riflemen as a combat squad to start (and the mortar now but you can't survive with less than 3 rifles still) and give them even more (free) rifle squads with tech (which keeps you from getting shit you actually need from tech). Usf would be so much better even if they literally just got a fucking jeep (even a kubel copypasta).

There's my blowing off steam for the day. It may sound somewhat fanboyish(?) but it's all true.

Paths aren't really snipers but they are pretty good. Their problems are that they come at 1cp and they cost a fuck ton to reinforce and take 2 pop per model.

Imo having doctrinal hard counter to simcity is actually a good thing.

Yeah but it's also a doctrinal hardcounter to axis XD

In terms of b4s, everyone always forgets that scavenge doc arty exists. It's very off-meta, but so is b4, and it still exists.

Riflemen with double bar and vet can perform on par.

Oh of course they can. The thing is, that entails double the muni investment and a more expensive squad. Bars tend to come later than stgs too, and double BARs come even later than that.

Demos if you can.

To be honest the entire meta in CoH2 -not only in 1v1- is boring af atm.

Volks/Pfusi spam with t1 forward retreat, mindless penal spam, brit cheese and BAR blobs with smoke nades.
And that in every single match in high rank 2v2 (and Im sure in 3v3/4v4 as well from what Ive heard) Zzzzzz

Personally the only way I can enjoy playing CoH2 atm is if I go 100% non-meta mode ;/

I've been using a strategy based around the commando regiment as brits, which is sorta of meta but can also be pretty cheesy sometimes. It's honestly the most fun I've had in a long time.

The problem with coh2 meta isn´t that it´s unbalanced or boring, it´s actually quite funny to play call-in meta when you play it for the first time.

The problem is that coh2 doesn´t have many different options to go if you still want to win. It lacks diversity in terms of viable strats and this alone will give you the feeling of boring meta. Meta isn´t boring (look at 4*t34/85 call in vs 2*tiger call in meta, that was boring). Meta is just repetive without any chance of escape from it.

All coh2 needs is a bit of diversity and viable strats so you can experiment a bit more with tools you are given. Coh2 doesn´t need to be 100% balanced, just a bit more diverse.

Other than the fact that it does make the game so much more fun, I think the existence of more diversity would also help balance, as you'd have more options to deal with different scenarios or maps and you wouldn't have to resort to cheese, which would probably be more easily dealt with if you had a diverse roster of units too. I think that that's definitely one thing Coh1 has over Coh2 (but it can also be cheesy and abusable as shit sometimes)

both axis can do the same against the other allies. Soviets are the only one that can withstand the cheese with their own cheese.

True true. Okw is much better at that than ost tho.

As for OP, I can agree that 'for mother russia' is pretty fkin cheesy when used with penals, if he's referring to the global ability that buffs all infantry and makes them sprint. I'm pretty sure they're a lot more resistant to suppression, and I think I've had instances where a blob of like 4+ penals just frontally wiped my mg34 while ignoring my infantry and went on to facerush my schwerer and satchel it to death. The commanders it's in are pretty rare and off-meta though.