Profile of ZombiFrancis

Well in CoH2 forget about the notion of cutting off your opponent's fuel income without totally pushing them off the map. There are a few maps with cutoff points, but for the most part fuel income can be at best slowed, but not a significant amount without dominating the field.

OKW's HQ has infantry that scale to the endgame, an AT gun, and an HMG that comes a little late and is arguably worse than your own terrible 50 Cal MG as USF. This means you gain no strategic advantage with your tech choices: OKW already has counters ready. The only weakness OKW has is indirect fire, which is unfortunately also USF's weakness. But that is your key to victory, but it comes later in the match and with commander choice, the best choices of course are paid commanders.

This means that your plight in a WFA faction matchup is that your capacity to win is almost entirely up to you and your opponent's micro ability until the mid-late game. You are likely going to be building 3 or 4 riflemen. They are likely going to be building 3 or 4 volksgrenadiers.

If you go M20, don't rush it out onto the field immediately. Try to lay an AT mine in a likely path and keep it hidden until the Luchs. (Which honestly, won't be that far off with how long it takes to get an M20 out and lay a mine compared to OKW building a Luchs.)

Also keep in mind two Rear Echelon squads with double bazookas, albeit a 200 muni investment, is a strong defensive deterrent against a Luchs. It's not an offensive counter though.

Many OKW players tend to set up their liegs/medic truck and cover it with the schwerer (flak HQ.) This will be where you will likely win or lose the game. If you're able to kill one or both of these HQs, it will likely give you a strong enough advantage to win the game.

In my experiences, the Calliope commander is the best catch-all commander for fighting OKW. A well-timed barrage, or the threat of constant barrages onto the flakHQ/medicHQ area really taxes OKW lategame. Recrewing liegs is costly and time consuming. And very dangerous if a calliope barrage is timed well.

Basically, it's this.

If we tune Jackson to miss vs target-size 2 P4's, it's going to also miss vs target size 26 KTs. And, oh boy, it's also going to miss a lot vs target-size 13 Blitzking KTs.

You don't need target tables to settle this. You just need target sizes that make sense.

There's also armor values.

If the penetration on the Jackson were exceptionally high compared to the grand arsenal of mediums they would be able to damage heavy tanks much more reliably without affecting their accuracy or the size of their targets.

I feel like armor values are as non-sensible as target-sizes and pop cap.

Better than recon loiter is the click-and-spam-where-you-want-to-see-OKW-flare.

At least there's no Heavy TD in that doctrine. Command Panther though is still a powerful unit, especially supporting an elefant or another OKW's JT. But I certainly won't disagree that cheap and anywhere sight is extremely powerful. (Hey British recon!)

If artillery was only available for allies as super heavy TDs are for Axis, I would accept the argument of using artillery to counter them. Since it is not, it is barely a viable argument.
OKW get its mobile artillery before anybody else
Oshteer LFH is superior to Russian ML20 and available on some nice doctrines for teamgame
Ostheer have Dive Bomb in the same doctrine as the Elefant and Recon Loiter, the best counter for ML20 and B-4
OKW has access to LFH as well and can combine it with a King Tiger
Ostheer Panzerwerfen pin and wipe anything taken in the barrage.

So, what is left.

Kat beeing a bit more accessible than Panzerwerfen
Ostheer having 4men squads but this can be countered with a well used sdfk + a pioneer squad to recapture
and reinforce. (At least it is what I do when I play Oshteer vs arty)
USF Calliope being superior to any other roquet artillery.
Does UKF have relevant artillery?
Sov ML20 or B-4 if there isn't a Ostheer player.
Soviet have more models per support squad.

Imo, the Artillery aspect is quite balance between sides, each side have cons and pro thus you can't really claim Allies can use artillery to counter Axis TDs since they'll also have their own artillery to clean your forces.

True, that's a fair point. For instance, I don't like how the one elefant commander also has recon and also has stuka bomb. (And spotting scopes.) But that's not necessarily anything do with elefants, recon, stuka bomb, or spotting scopes individually.

On one hand, I want to ramble and rant about commanders and doctrines in this game, but on the other hand, heavy TD positions have to be the full focus of axis attention. There's also so much infantry AT deflection damage that heavy TDs are always vulnerable to infantry.

I've always loved how Angoville was split between open territory and contained areas with shot and sight blockers.

I just miss the original territory points that actually made the map work right.

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I think the best point that can be made is that an unsupported Elefant/JT is worthless.

Isolate the heavy TDs from their support, either by killing the support outright or drawing them to defend elsewhere on the map, that's usually the best way to get them out of position.

Because of course you can always smoke and flank.