Profile of ZombiFrancis

Give Stormtroopers the same rifle profile as obers.

Volks cheap cost in building and reinforcing does allow OKW immensely stronger field presence with 3 or 4 volks than an equivalent 3 or 4 rifles. (Usually 3 with an officer.)

I think field presence is being confused with tankiness. An upgraded and/or vetted rifle squad usually will beat the pants off an equivalent volks squad. But they usually won't be able to withstand much else afterwards.

It's hard to reclaim field presence against mass volks as USF. (Plus usf players who make the mistake of early mortar v okw get stuck on the back foot on field presence usually.)

AAHT, luchs, and pumas are each superior to USF strategies involving rushing an m20, Stuart or the other AAHT. Or rather raketens and puma threat put a damper on USF response to volks into whatever.

Vet 2 Assault Engineer change is good.

Shock Troops buffs seem appropriate.

45mm ATG gun changes are certainly valid. Long overdue.

Tank Traps being consolidated into Defensive Fortifications is a good change.

Honestly everything else from what I've seen and tinkered around with just seem like adjustments for adjustments sake (at best.) Whack-a-moling the metagame doesn't exactly accomplish much other than kick the can down the road. I feel like the effect of these changes is still going to be obliterating something out of the metagame and shoving something else into its place, with little to show for improving overall dynamic gameplay potential.

But then again, commander revamps were never going to accomplish much else. I do appreciate that there is more attention to specific abilities within commanders this time. (Although I fear there are unintended side effects of these changes. Which I further fear is kind of the point: unknowns to mix up the meta.)

Also Tank traps, though merged into Entrenching Tools, (not defensive fortifications) they still require 2 CPs. Since Entrneching tools is 1 CP, that might be something to look at.

Obers have zero anti tank capabilities. Use this knowledge to your advantage.

A pair of obers is 800 manpower that can feed a sherman quite a bit of vet.

By the time Obers are out in pairs the allied player needs to have combined arms out or arriving shortly.

I think at most, BARs could stand a reduction in far range accuracy of about 10-15%. Maybe.

But veterancy is where rifles with BARs are powerful, not necessarily with BARs independently.

None of the veterancy in CoH2 has ever been well balanced, or designed for that matter.