Profile of CODGUY

Bazookas on Riflemen are a waste, the Captain and Lieutenant are basically Riflemen sqauds I don't really think there is any difference between the CPT or LT or a regualar Rifle squad other than the thompson.

But I wanna just spam RIFLEMEN throw some BARS on them and ATTACK Move THOUGH THE ENEMY! it's not FAIR they have the chance to fight back!

Yeah, like OKW gets to do with Volks and Strums the first 2 minutes of the game.

And here lays your problem. Try to play OKW and Ostheer and reach 200 position in ladder.

Seems like the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.

Most everyone has a perferred faction or two in fact I'm willing to bet either OST or OKW are the preferred factions for 60-70% of this community. I do have quite a bit more games with USF and UKF as those are my two preferred factions but I also have around 50-60 games each with OKW and OST. I happen to have a higher win rate with those two also. I find OST more challenging than OKW, but OST is more flexible and overall more powerful late game than OKW despite the latter's access to a non-doctrinal King Tiger.

What happens to them on the field is due to your atrocious standard of play.

Royal Engineers have significantly higher dps AND higher defense than Pioneers. Maybe you're using your Royal Engineers in long range gun fights vs LMG Grens and raging when you lose.

In any case, the Royal Engineers aren't even a combat unit - they're primarily a repair and utility unit (minelaying, flamer, minesweeping, terraforming).

Have you considered not being so bad at this game? Anyone who thinks Pioneers are good at combat is probably on par with the Normal AI in skill level.

I don't use Royal Engineers in combat except as PIAT carriers and even at that they are terrible since the PIAT is the worst hand held AT in the game, and a Panzer 4 will consistently wipe 2-3 of their models in one shot.

I play mainly USF and UKF in 1v1 matches but the latter is almost unplayable now due to a balance team repeatedly giving in to Wehraboo moaning over the last few years.

Yes I've made my opinons known on the COH2 Steam forums too.

The .50 cal is a poor MG due to its very narrow arc requring either another MG to be positioned next to the first one to mitigate flanking (not great due to their high 7 pop count a piece) or you have to keep a rifle unit near to protect it. This is required far less often for an MG42 and even the MG34 because of their wide 120 degree fire arcs.

UKF was originally supposed to be the Allied version of Wehrmacht with costly, but high quality units and a few specific and exploitable weakness like no mobile artillery, and no anti-vehicle snares. Now its units while still being expensive, are either roughly equal, marginally better, or i n some cases much worse than their Wehrmacht counter parts.

We found the problem guys. How about you actually try do look what the stats say about a units survivability instead of being biased?

I see what happens to them in the field and that's plenty info right there. Royal Engineers are a completely worthless combat unit, they are a small step above medics.