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Jump back to quoted post31 Mar 2015, 02:42 AMCyanara

Nice work. A couple of thoughts:

Your concerns about USF facing off against the stronger Ost sniper might be overstated considering almost every USF player has the incredible M20 armoured car out at about the 5 minute mark, usually before Ost has any hard counters from t2, unless they plant a great teller mine. Still, I'll be interested to see how they play out.

I'm very interested in that nugget about manning the MG42 with pios. We might even see some players deliberately kill the main crew to do so. Do you know if the MG42 increased accuracy translates into better suppression? I feel like that was the main issue at hand with rifles and conscripts easily getting within grenade range, even when blobbed (particularly thanks to suppression taking a couple of seconds to make infantry actually crawl these days). Although, better sightlines from pios will definitely help. A cool decision by Relic, given that pios can only effectively engage at close range.

Pretty pumped to see the raketenwerfer finally become a possibly viable alternative to schreks. It just had ridiculous target acquisition times against fast and light vehicles given that it intuitively should have been their hard counter.

• Forward Observers, the Riflemen Sight Boost Passive, is just not appreciable. Stand still in cover and note how much your vision range increases. It's like... 35 vision to 40? ~15%? Not impressive.
  
• Recon Sweep is something you can get from the Major for free. The Major's call-in plane has less vision but it is cheaper.
  
• The Greyhound is arguably worse than the M20 and always arrives later than an aggressive M20. The M20 is just a really good unit. The Greyhound is fine but tends to arrive late.
  
• The Airborne Combat group is trash like you said. Expensive. Unreliable. Pure manpower sink in an army that suffers for manpower.
  

• Mechanized Company would be good. Delay your Captain slightly with a WC51 loaded for bear.
  
• When you get your Captain grab a 57mm AT gun first. 57mm has the fastest fire rate of all AT guns and will kill Kubels quickly unless the enemy's micro is exceptional. The element of surprise is key. Try to fire from further than the Kubel can see (60 AT gun range vs 50 sight range).
  
• The Stuart is a big risk. A HUGE risk. The Puma will almost always come out before the Stuart. Just think twice before you get a Stuart.
  
• After you have your AT gun maybe grab some BARs or M1919s to round out your force.