. UKF are also the only faction without a mortar half track or equivalent (OKW don’t but they can get a StuKa out very quickly anyway and Russia have equivalents) mortar half tracks are in my opinion a pretty essential countering unit to turtling play styles which is the reason everyone gets one... except UKF. I see a lot of newer players really struggle to counter machine gun and mortar spam from Wehrmacht without armour for example as the AEC has been hugely nerfed against infantry. The counters being Vickers UC, snipers or artillery reg. They are high skill, high risk counters needed to defeat the oldest and easiest strat in the book. (Artillery reg isn’t high skill but also isn’t stock)
Because of all this as well, British lack any stock counter to infantry support guns which out range the mortar pit, basically requiring me to take royal artillery nearly every game. I feel like royal artillery is a better emplacements regiment than advanced emplacements or royal engineers as it’s the only one equipped with a counter to the artillery that they will use against you.
Oh and snares, brits really need a stock snare now, I said in another thead that it was fine before, because Brit AT was really good, but there’s been a power creep, Comets got nerfed hard, used to just be a better panther, firefly rockets don’t deal the damage they used to and don’t temp snare anymore, 6 Pdr is getting nerfed as well. Basically every German infantry has a snare or pSchrek except for obers and assault grens so you can’t go anywhere near them with a tank whereas axis armour does as it pleases. Basically due to nerfs Brits are on par AT wise with every other faction, except have no snares. Either give sappers at snares (Number 74s maybe?) or make gammon bombs sticky I think.
Hmmm there are others but I can’t think of at 8am
perhaps blob counters can Be fiddly early on, as vickers doesn’t suppress enough, bofors is easily countered without artillery reg and centaur/croc/avre/sexton come too late half the time. Wasp only works if they stand still. Other than that you’re left with Brens which are expensive and about to get nerfed. (We’ll see how they are after the update as cheaper brens means more brens) Churchill is pretty good and is my choice cos it scales better than a centaur, but again late if you don’t have fuel. In comparison, US have Stuarts, Scots, BARs, fighting positions, 50 cals, rangers, AA halftracks, later on Sherman’s can fire HE, calliopes and priests demolish blobs and the pershing fires tactical nukes. Brit’s have half of that to begin with and nothing early on after the vickers UC suppression got nerfed and AEC shells became useless.Other than that I think commandos are a bit meh right now, bleed to badly against panzergrens unless you have stupid amounts of muni. Sappers seem just as good and half the price and can give them armour and a vickers k.
P.S.- If I could suggest one thing to fix the faction it would probably be to add something like the staghound or Stuart from CoH1, making British tier 2 like OKW tier 2 with the panzer 2 and puma, facing mortar half tracks or a Stuka? Take an AEC, facing mortar spam or blobs? Grab a staghound.
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