Profile of The_Courier

Yeah, the problem can be mitigated by running in circles. He will spend time microing the truck while you just move around. It's still bullshit that needs fixing, since the really dangerous part is when the truck lumbers in a firefight and disrupts your rifles/scripts. Early game is already bad enough against OKW without the monster truck absurdity every time.

I don't know how they can fix it, however. Maybe just make it as vulnerable as the ambulance to small arms fire.

I do think it's a bit silly that you are forced to glue your rifles to green cover or 2v1 them while spending ammo with rear echelons to be able to beat the OKW's starting unit. Sure, they're expensive to reinforce, but 2-3 of them, if used well, can wrestle map control like nobody's business and USF don't have any reliable early counters. Grenades are too expensive and lack punch, BARs at 60 ammo apiece come too late, more rifles won't help unless you play heavily on the defensive since they drop like flies to MP44s. The Lieutenant tangles with them well enough but 50 fuel is a lot and means no ambulance for you.

Maybe having 2-3 Rear echelons might do it, to use rifle volley more often. But then you're in huge trouble as soon as vehicles start hitting the field because they scale horribly.

I really like the US faction. Plenty of option, flexibility and mobility, a very robust roster of units, and their tech/upgrade system is unique enough to make them interesting. Great job on those guys. I still think they could have used a heavier tank like the Sherman jumbo or something that can slug it out with at least a Panther, rather than having to rely on both Jacksons and Wolverines. Bulldozer Sherman doesn't seem to do, well, anything to tanks.

The OBW I'm less of a fan of. The truck system sucked in OF and it still isn't the best (especially the one that can defend itself from any light vehicle). Their units are a bit, I don't know, gimmicky? Pioneers that shred other builder units, AT gun that gets in buildings, a bevy of superheavy tanks (again), inflexible ''obersoldaten'', I don't really like their roster.

On the balance front, it seems pretty good. Certainly a far cry from when the base game was released, and let's not even talk about Opposing Fronts. I'm fairly satisfied thus far.

Soviet truck: 120mp 30fu.
German truck: 120mp 30fu.

Soviet one dies to 1 mine with 0 chance to survive, german one backs off with engine damage.

This is what you should compare instead of mine costs.
And if they are fine at higher skill level, then they are fine overall. You don't balance competitive RTS around medicore/bad players, you balance the games for high skill games, where balance matters most.

If you are at disadvantage because you're not good enough, then improve yourself.
Soviet sniper is safer ONLY against vet0 german sniper, otherwise its in just as much danger due to better and more accurate german weapons.

Snipers survivability is fine on both sides. Their killing power is also fine on both sides, at far range german sniper shoots twice as fast already after most recent nerf to soviet sniper.

And I'm saying the comparison is a useless one since the Teller mine, being twice as costly, can be expected to be better. Sniper teams both cost the same and shouldn't have a similar disparity in performance.

And my major problem is not sniper vs sniper (albeit the burden of micro being on the German player is kinda iffy) but that germans simply don't have a good counter to snipers early on. Infantry gets sniped, no good; mortars are pure RNG; 221 completely sucks; counter-sniping is way too risky before vet 1 arrives, and FHT arrives too late and is countered by any savvy Soviet player fairly fast. A buff to the 221 seems a logical solution to this, light vehicles should beat snipers handily, and a garrisoned M3 certainly does. Besides, Inciendiary round only works if both models in the squad are bunched up, and it's not like decent players will sit around their teams providing you with such opportunities.

Besides that, I think increasing the reinforcement cost of the sniper's 2nd man would be a viable nerf. Losing him should be a blow, since in equivalent situation a German sniper would likely be dead. 120 mp at least, and 180 would be acceptable too. You want a survivable sniper? Pay for it then.

And before you say anything about me being a biased fanboy, I play more Soviets than German.

This is where you are wrong. 2 cons should be able to charge through the arc and 1 should be able to reach molotov range if the ostheer player doesnt change the target the MG should shoot. But by no means I want to see 1 cons squad being able to run through the arc into MG face and be able to throw molotovs

That's true. It was like that in vCoH and should be like that today. MGs are meant to suppress one unit apiece (assuming no micro). Not to negate entire groups of infantry by simple virtue of existing. Even the Dushka (or however it's called) cannot do that.