Profile of CODGUY

Most things OKW overpreform. I'm almost convinced the whole faction exists as it does to serve as a handicap so trash players can get a competitive game in.

It is unfair to straight up compare Volksgrenadiers to Conscripts or Grenadiers.

OKW has been designed with worse support weapons, so Volksgrenadiers are meant to be able to fight better independently than their counterparts. They are meant to be slightly more cost effective than other infantry.

Conscripts and especially Grenadiers however, are designed to be supplemented by support weapons.

That's how Riflemen should be, cheap and effective but instead they're expensive and lack luster. If they had something to support them early on they wouldn't be so but you've nothing. No MG, no vehicle, no sniper, no powerful CQB engieer unit, nothing.

I also like the point about vet bonuses. Rifles vet excruciating slow and when they get to Vet 1 all they get is an AT snare. It's pretty funny, its like "Oh I vetted up and all I got was something I should have had in the first place! Yippee!"

Several key USF units seem grossly overpriced actually. Besides Riflemen themselves a couple other units stand out as being way too costly:

- Definitely REs, 200 MP and 25 reinforcement cost for this unit? Seriously?

- 50. Cal, why it costs 280 MP and 7 pop while being locked behind a specific tech tree is utterly baffling to me. MG34 and MG42 both preform better, especially the MG42 yet they are only 6 pop and 260 MP.

- The Ambulance is incredibly expensive for 250 MP/10 fuel and I don't even see the point of having it available T0. It's a completely useless thing to be available as a starting unit.

I've made these comparisons before I'll make the again when you look at USF's starting roster vs OKW:

Rear Echeleons vs Strumpioneers: this is a very lopsiided comparison yet it's the reality. Strums can close in and defeat as many as 3 Rear Echeleon sqauds depending on the situation and easily can handle two at once. Strums might as well be Panzergrens.

Riflemen vs Volksgrenadiers - well we've been over this one. Whatever stat advantages Riflemen may have over Volks they're not significant enough to allow them to hold the line against OKW. Volks have the advantage here.

Mortar vs Schrek, neither unit is all that useful at the start.

Ambulance vs Kubelwagon - needs no further explaination

So you see, you need a lot of luck on your side at the start as USF because its an up hill battle.

It's not as bad vs OST because they have to build an infantry company building so they get a slow start and the USF mortar helps against garrisoned MGs.

Apparently hasn't played USF in like a year lmao.


I actually like the stuart a lot. Decent enough against infantry and it's a great light vehicle counter. Not super useful in teamgames just due to limited window of opportunity though, like pretty much any other light.

The LT tier only seems really useful for the .50 cal and if you're trying to rush to Major and quickly get a Sherman because you'll get an MG for blob control without spending fuel for a supression platform which USF desperately needs most of the time especially against OKW that tends to out number your units for the first half of the game. I actually like the Stuart too on it's own but it's a 70 fuel vehicle so buying it will set your tech to Major back quite a bit. It works best under two conditions: 1) OKW deploys the medical HT instead of the Mechanized HT so you probably won't see Pumas for a while, 2) OST is spamming stuff like Scout Cars and Assault Grens without snare equipped Grens. I think the price of the Stuart is fine and it's AT abilities are fine but it would be nice if it was better against infantry especially because of it's substantial fuel cost.

Yes USF having the best TD in the game is too much. Guess what isn't too much though:

A stock King Tiger call in with any OKW doctrine

A stock heavy-medium tank, better than anything else the Allies have doctrinally and non-doctrinally available to both OKW and OST

A starting shock engineer unit roughly equivalent to Panzergrenadiers at T0.

A cheap 250 MP infantry unit that consistently outpreforms a more expenisve 280 MP USF Rifleman unit.

A crutch elite infantry unit called Obersoldaten...non-doctrinal of course.

A CP11 Tiger Ace that outpreforms all Allied heavies even though they are limited to 13 CPs

A CP9 Command Tiger that outpreforms all Allied heavies even though they are limited to 13 CPs

Double Schrek equipped shock infantry available at T1/2 now for only 100 MNs

The game's best MG, prehaps the best crewed weapon period also being one of the cheapest and available immediately at T0

All this and people whine over stuff like the Jackson and Tommies actually being good units.

You mean UKF and USF?

USF? You mean the faction where every single starting unit you have is inferior to almost every single starting unit available to OKW and OST?

UKF eh they have good stuff but it's not at bargain prices like you find with OKW or OST.