Profile of Support Sapper

1. They can become 5 men squad irrespective of a chosen doctrine.
2. They can be upgraded with convenient healing that heals everybody around on the move for free.
3. They can be upgraded with cool artillery abitity and better sight.
4. They are repurchased as 5 men squads without additional cost after bolster (it includes sappers).
5. They can be upgraded with up to two bren lmgs.
6. They can get up to two piats becoming an at squad.
7. They can build cover such as sandbags and trenches.
8. They can be upgraded with close range grenade and later with gammons.
9. They get special bonus in cover.
10. Through commanders they can get even more powerful upgrades that are unmatched by any infantry upgrades on the axis side.
11. They can be supported with t0 mg and durable light vehicle.

Are you sure the unit is underperforming?

1. They underperform by a lot as a 4 man so bolster is a must, or they have to be 5 man default.
2. Beside medical supply, UKF have the most expensive medic bunker and dont have access to mobile reinforce.
3. "Cool" artillery which can only hit static target as big as a building and require the unit to be deadly close to target.
4. Their base price and reinforce price is calculated around being a 5 mab squad, not 4 man.
5. A single bren is wost than 1 mg42 so 2 bren is required to bring then up to equal, more expensive but not significantly better.
6. They dont have buil in snare and giving them PIAT is a waste, sacrifice AI power.
7. They dont have T0 engineer unit to buil cover for them at the stat and being fucked without cover.
8. Tommy's nade is standard frag nade and has a minimum range. Gamon bomb again only work with static target.
9. They get debufff out of cover and close to non existence moving dps while the faction doesn't have a cqb - moving dps unit to fill the gap.
10. If you mean assault sections then good new is they is they just about ass gren lv but cone latter.
11. LOL Universal carrier is durable.

Are you sure you fully understand all the thing you are talking?

At which power level you aim exactly? I mean, how much potential should IS have early-mid-lategame?

I dont have access to latest stat so i cant give any number.

coupled with the price nerf/vet increase they are getting and a re balancing of the bren (good enough to be worth using with 1 slot but not so good that 2 turn them into obersoldaten) i think it would be ok.

If bren can be re-profiled to be solid event when using only one, then bolster upgrade sure can take a slot and required purchase for each squad. But if medic and pyro take a slot then they should have more bonuses.

Just had a few games with UK and, well, they're not so bad.

A few game...

If you support them with an mg or uc they are really strong imo. They can build cover themselves and if you use it they are still very strong.

Tommy can be good while camping cover but you cant do that all the time because there are always situations require you to move out and attack. For now event moving between covers is punishing to tommy, how can you make offence action with that.

If you play them ostheer style they are more than ok.

Not so sure about this since ukf dont have mobile smoke to cover flanking, dont have cqb specialist with nuke nade for offending, dont have stock flamer for housse clearing.

There should be a small balance patch coming out this week, minor tweaks to IS for now are planned to be a cost decrease from 280 to 270 and an increase of their vet 3 accuracy bonus from 20% to 25%.

Cost decrease is reasonable, i welcome vet 3 buff but it may be not needed. Tommy with full vet and upgrade do it pretty ok late game for then and now.

What UKF need is an improved early game. Please consider swap royal engineer and Universal carrier, or revert some RA change out of cover of tommy.