And that's something they need to fix, spamming half a dozen Engineers should not be a replacement for Infantry.
Huh? vCoH was all about the Americans early game advantage into the Wehrmacht late game advantage. Then OPF came out and we got the British with their weak early and strong late, and Panzer Elite which was a really weird faction and their advantages depended on what you unlocked.
As for Hans stream yesterday, how about that single Pack Howitzer winning the game by suppressing Hans entire advance with a couple shells? Pack Howitzer / ISG suppression is still bullshit, Relic still refuses to remove it for some reason.
Idk how the vcoh meta was over all the years since I seriously got in to the game around 2011 but 2.602 the "American early game advantage" is a myth. The Americans T1 infantry are better than Volks, but thats about it. You can argue it becomes easier for WM to expand as the game progress but by no means are they clinging on for life in the early game. And then late game Americans get superior vet 3 infantry, snipers, supply yard upgrades, OMCG, supply drops, etc. US did not become weaker and weaker as the game went on in the same fashion that some factions and many commanders within them have suffered in coh2.
About Hans: hes pretty good player probably top 50 for sure possibly top 25 as far as COH2 players go. But people equate twitch popularity to being top tier which is not the case. The perennial tourney top finishers like Aimstrong, OMGPOP, Barton, Noggano, etc are not in the same skill bracket with him.