Profile of Anon66

But you can't. If it were that simple, it would have been done.

The Jackson is what it is because Relic designed a faction with one nondoctrinal AT vehicle. The Jackson does everything because any vehicle that counters the Jackson counters the entire USF motor pool.

If you want to make the Jackson more geared towards killing heavy vehicles like the SU-85 or Panther, you need to add another TD to the nondoctrinal lineup to handle the anti-medium work.

Honestly I think we're here because of the P4. If the M4 was better at countering armor, or if bazookas and the M1 didn't reliably bounce off of it, everyone wouldn't be going for jacksons.

Wasn't everyone complaining about Rifle spam before the rework? Now three rifle opening is being suggested again under the guise of it not being special snowflake in a game around A-symmetrical balance?
I thought the problem was just the timing resulting in a power spike?

I'm kind of at a loss for words at this point, as where rifelmen go, so does the faction.
Wher relies on weapons teams, USF relies on riflemen, OKW relies on elite units and armor (on paper, at least), brits rely on cover, and soviets rely on cheese.

The USF was never a faction that was in a sweet spot due to glitches(I remember the sherman rapid fire glitch well) and controversial design philosophy (vehicle crews are the core engineer unit, riflemen are both supposed to be line infantry and non-doc elite with upgrades and vet.)
At some point I remember people complaining about riflemen spam so their smokes were moved from them to REs to make REs seem more viable. This failed miserably and only managed to decrease riflemen utility and survivability.
Then Riflemen were just slowly losing games by MP bleed as they failed to not trade effectively with other core infantry.
I may have to try playing axis more but I seem to be losing engagements where my rifles charge anyone in green cover (as they should), and am now handily winning fights where okw players rush my riflemen early game like it's pre-patch.
I don't think it's so much a riflemen problem as maybe just an issue with the tech.
The m20 and stuart had to come out early to prevent pre-patch rifles from getting flayed too much by early OKW and breaking up MGs from wher, which I understand, though now maybe we can look at their timing and adjust it as USF doesn't have to rely on them too much anymore.

Side note, forgive me as I don't play OKW often, but I would like to humbly ask why it's so difficult to deal with USF light vehicle play when you have access to a t0 AT gun? does it just really mess up the teching or is it an issue of not being able to properly defend an AT gun at that stage of the game? I'm being genuine, most replays I see of better players seem to have USF light vehicles fausted to death or just fausted and ignored. It's odd to see such a change where prior it was the OKW light vehicles that were terrorizing USF infantry.

if we wanted to revert the changes could we please look at maybe not have the rifle AT nade behind vet1 and giving RM their smokes back? I admit I wasn't lurking here when that decision was made so I haven't seen the argument for doing it but it seemed to really hurt the USF idea of flanking and causing chaos. REs just don't seem have a place outside of being light AT infantry and mine clearers.

Also I'm really tired of this crabs in the bucket mentality of "USF doesn't have to get strong against OKW because then they'll be better than wher" that plagues every discussion of adjusting the faction. We can discuss wher but it doesn't change the fact that USF was struggling against OKW beforehand.