Profile of Strummingbird

vs Isildur. Really close game on the FBP, lot of big swings both ways- also features some of the changes implemented. WP by him.

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The problem with volks is not really the unit itself so much as the synergy with the luchs, medkits, and kubel (vs brits and USF).

5-6 minutes from game start you get a massive power spike with STGs rolling out, flame nades popping, immediately followed by the luchs- which can and will end the game if you don't have AT.

So you have a conundrum as the allied factions in that your infantry can no longer deal with volks, and yet you're going to have less infantry / team weapons to deal with the volks because you need to sink quite a lot of MP and possibly fuel to prevent the instant death condition that is the luchs. This is the steamroller that's such an issue now- volks are OP as part of this build but not otherwise.

Case in point - OKW T1 starts, which i've never ever personally had problems dealing with in recent months. Med truck starts get hammered by light vehicle play from LT and Sov T3, HMG spam (even as USF!), snipers, just about everything- unless used with fusiliers (which themselves are imbalanced).

Volks, of course, receive identical upgrades and unlocks after both med and mech, but with med truck allied factions can keep stacking on the anti-inf firepower and volks never become a problem then because OKW never gets the momentum.

This is very similar to how ostheer suffered vs USF back in the day- you needed a pak to avoid getting rolled by the M20, but the free LT meant that by sinking MP into antitank you lose all your map control to superior inf.

Suggestion-

Fausts for Assault Grenadiers (with T1, like osttruppen)

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TLDR

• Assgrens are counterable by infantry play and are balanced in that regard with their cost and timing

• Additional weakness in lack of faust exposes assgren play to cheese in the early game and heavily disincentivizes them in the lategame (amongst other things)

• Giving them fausts would not significantly affect matchups to the point where assgren spam / cheese play becomes a problem [may need observation vs brits] and would make for more variety ingame

Single Shreck for Panzergrens

• GCS and 1v1 gameplay clearly shows the propensity for wehrmacht T1 units over pgrens in the anti-inf role. This is not necessarily due to T1 being overboard in strength, but rather due to the lack of niche for panzergrens in the wehr anti-inf roster.

• Grenadiers are almost always preferable [even when both T1 and T2 are present], with fausts, much, much lower initial cost, weapon upgrades (particularly G43) that allow the unit to punch above its reinforce cost]

• Snipers bleed no manpower and due to how important / impactful this unit is in the USF/UKF matchup and against soviet sniper, panzergrens really can't compete

• Single schreck would give the unit a niche in T2 as a 'safe' multirole purchase.

• Pgren blob / spam would neither be efficient nor uncounterable, given their high upfront cost, not-overly strong anti-inf performance, nerfed bundle nade and weakness of single shreck in coh2 due to vehicle mechanics with pushing and general high lethality[see current sturmpios for reference]. As such, Wehrmacht T1 + pak or stug would still be the more cost-efficient tier for specialized units, but panzergrens would offer a flexible alternative in a faction of specialists

Other suggestions (without reasoning, maybe later)
0CP Mortar Halftrack
Riegel mines able to be laid by pioneers and 222s

Are u talking about base crew or support weapons recrewed by conscripts?

If it's for the first, has there been any change to that?
If it's for the 2nd, this happens with all recrewed weapons. Not sure how to lower effectiveness on that specific scenario. I mean, if you recrew an MG with Pio/RE, they will probably own non full member squad who decides to close in. Same thing happens if you attack a base OH support weapon close range with RET.

While FMR is active they stomp whatever due to the added armor (live) and the added 50% accuracy makes those low accurate mosins actually do something.

Crewed with conscripts. with other factions you only get 3 guys firing and you lose DPS very quickly, becoming a non-factor- the only ingame situation where i've seen crewmen affecting a fight as non-soviet factions was with, of all things, fallschirm-crewed weapons- but that's a heck of a niche case and expensive/slow to reinforce anyway.

Currently conscript crewed weapons are pretty unreliable, since conscripts already have bad accuracy and there's a further 25% penalty on crewmen, if I recall. Penal crewed weapons are obviously pretty strong but those do cost a fair amount more to reinforce. In the EFA revamp, the greatly buffed accuracy of conscripts even at the cost of damage makes their performance very consistent and quite strong.

FMR obviously gives them a buff, but the ability making team weapons virtually unflankable seems very unintuitive. If the ability made the crewed weapon better at it's role during the duration while still retaining its vulnerability to flanking that would be ideal.

You guys might want to take a look at and rein in the 6 man crewed weapons with the new conscript buffed accuracy. They straight up beat pioneers and osttruppen head to head and do more damage than they deserve to actual combat squads on their own.