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But I want to use them in an actually good Commander.

I dunno, I think Mechanized is probably one of the best 1v1 commanders USF has. It probably sucks ass in team games since there's no artillery or heavy tank but I wouldn't say its the worst.

Biggest problem with Mechanized is Combined Arms seems very difficult to use properly and get its munition's worth out of. Dozer Sherman is good, WC51 is great, 76mm Sherman is decentish.

Rifle Company shouldn't get callin infantry. Its a doctrine about RIFLEMEN after all.

Give it Riflemen field defenses, reduce the flare and fire up prices by 5 munitions each and call it a day. Literally just making the abilities cheaper would fix this commander. The debuff on Fire Up is so fucking bad theres no way it should be 15 munitions, and the rifleman flares should be priced equally to the panzerfusilier ones.

If someone seriously implements actually removing or replacing these abilities with more non-riflemen garbage ill be bloody pissed. Doesn't need elite infantry or more tanks or whatnot. Even carbine upgrade sounds iffy. I wouldnt mine replacing the RE flamethrower with Riflemen molotovs though; right now Urban Assault Company is a far better boost to RM effectiveness than so-called "Rifle Company". Ditch the RE rifle nades though.

It's fine, and fits the theme of OKW.

Thread is getting kind of cancerous.

Conscripts are basically worthless versus OKW and depend on the likewise horrible maxim and yet everyone is mumbling on about whether or not Ostheer has sidetechs (and no, they don't have any, unless you change the definition of the term. You can skip techs, sure, but all the ability unlocks are linear with BP or automatic).

Also, Molotovs shouldn't require teching at all, being literally a glass bottle full of gasoline. It's also probably the worst grenade of any sort in the game, taking half a year to throw, at which point half the squad is probably already dead. But by removing that side-tech you've added a little bit more utility to the otherwise hot garbage 240 manpower squad, and made them compare just a little bit better to the 250 manpower do-everything volks.

As for other nerfs to penals or buffs to conscripts, I don't play SOV regularly enough to really comment further. Conscripts are definitely the worst mainline infantry in the game, however, and merge isn't quite so useful since most of the Soviet weapon teams also suck or are too expensive to risk screening them with conscripts. The most I see merge used for is keeping flamethrower combat engineers in the fight.

I reckon it will be fixed next patch.

As far as I can tell it has been like this for years. Would be nice though.