Profile of jagd wölfe

USF and OKW commander reworks are definetly the weakest

I agree to that. The StuG E would probably be fantastic in the hands of OKW, OST already has a lot of AI options both stock and doctrinally and even at similar timing.

I get the argument that OST has comfortable lesser Panzer IV (G) that is a safer bet.
It would probably be theoretically a better option to consider in the hands of OKW, but imo end up being neglected in favour of doctrinal Ostwind or Luchs simply due to its micro intensive requirements and underwhelming performances.
If an OKW player keeps a luchs alive for 5 minutes he gets a lategame killing machine that can suppress squads in green cover.
The Ostwind is a solid tank that can hold off t-70s and even Stuarts and AEC when properly supported
The Stug E is simply unrewarding, so even OKW, with its expensive premium Panzer IV (J) would have better Tier 3.5 vehicle options.

What the StuG lacks (or lacked? Let's see what the patch changes bring) overall is a place: Both in the OST line up as well as in different game modes. The 50 range are a decent difference to the Brumm: Support gun instead of breacher. But I think it fell short on the game modes: Casemates are barely used in 1v1, and for larger modes it is still somewhat fragile. It had a window of maybe 2v2 but that might not have been enough.

The extra range doesn't really play in its favour with the slow projectile and casamate set up. As a support gun, to my experience it's inferior to even autofire 120mm mortar and leIG options
I think it would probably work better as a direct fire turretless anti infantry tank with a su-76 barrage ability.
Casamates may be less used in 1vs1, but they are definitely still present, especially Stug G, Jagdpanzer IV ( and SU 85 occasionally.
The reason they are less used imo is that heavy tanks are much less common as well, and since most (all but the stug E and Brummbar) casamates are tank destroyers this makes premium mediums like KV1, T-34/85 and Panzer IV, generalists capable of engaging all targets especially with atg support, a better investment.
I don't think it has to do with casamates in general.

Way too ineffective alone, so it needs to be used in pairs, which makes pathing super awkward.

And at that point it's just much more efficient to use a Bruumbar

Because functionally they are the same unit type. They even work exactly the same.

I must say I can see OP's point about having to put a similar amount of micro into it compared to the Brummbar while getting much less out of it. On the other hand it is super cheap.
No real opiniom on it, but I have to say I have rarely seen it in game.

The argument of it being cheap doesn't really justify it imo, especially because turretless tanks are always cheaper than turretted counterparts, and for much less you can obtain actually good turretted light vehicles with comparable if not sometimes better dps against infantry and a nice mobility.
For the same price, you can also get a nice M8 scott gun carrier that can actually deal better with team weapons and moving infantry, while having a turret and mobility, and their armor difference is irrelevant until the Stug 3 E reaches vet 2 and gets a bonus, but even then 180 armor will rarely make the Stug E bounce anything but base PIATS and Bazooka.

Not only that, but the small AOE and the slow projectile make manual aiming really inconsistent without very high accuracy.

I absolutely find the Command Panzer IV a much better AI option on top of being turretted, mobile, able to deal with light vehicles and having the Command aura. And it even got a smoke shell that can support against team weapons, and that's 100 fuel, so 25 more

Since FRP was brought up, I gotta note that there has been tons of improvements for infantry preservation across all factions since I joined coh2 years ago:
(order of introduction might not be correct, also I may have missed a few additions)

Doctrinal:
+Soviets received Comissar for field healing
+Soviets received Airborne Rally point for reinforcement, healing and FRP!
+Ostheer 250 HT can reinfroce at vet1
+OKW opel blitz truck gained healing aura
+OKW has 223 scout car introduced with medikit drop
+British Glider HQ has medics now

Non-doc:
+Ostheer 251 HT gained the ability to heal troops inside
-(Ostheer had medikits removed on PGs)
+British medics available non-doc, and their buggy auto heal got replaced with heal aura
-(British medical upgrade got more expensive)
+Ostheer command and medic bunker ugrades can be combined
+Allied M5 (non-doc for soviets) and M3 (doctrinal) HTs can heal troops inside
+Ostheer medikits became cheaper
+OKW access to medics became cheaper


Now I wonder, are all pot holes gonna be filled eventually?
These are:
-No FRP for Ostheer at all
-Only one doctrinal FRP for soviets
-Soviets unable to heal howitzer crews
-Soviets unable to heal weapon teams on the field non-doc
-OKW unable to reinforce howitzer crews (unless put next to BG HQ)
-OKW limited to one forward reinforcement point non-doc

The latter two issues could be fixed imo by letting OKW players deploy multiple BG HQs (each has to be upgraded with medics individually).

It would mess up with tier selection since the battlegroup hq is a tech building

Curious. Are you paying attention to World of Warcraft at all? They are very behind schedule in releasing their first content patch for Shadowlands, it's been almost 8 months since the expansion released and still no new content to the game, the wait is just awful...

Way more behind schedule than CoH2 is that's for sure, if CoH2 even is behind schedule. I mean, it doesn't really feel like it is

Good, hopefully this MMO trash dies once for all