Profile of Hmortier

Hardly OP. It's too fragile. Decent soviets can use AT guns and mines to 1 shot SC to death. When it reaches vet 2 it becomes good.

So it needs a big manpower price increase and slight health buff.

By the time the enemy rolls out an AT gun, the Scout Car will have already inflicted a lot of damage, perhaps enough to get to Vet 2 (which isn't that hard if you ask me). If the enemy rushed the AT gun, planning ahead for a Scout Car, he will have to make sacrifices in early game map control.

Mines can handle Scout Cars with ease, but I wouldn't want to rely on those alone to deal with it, since luck is a bit of a factor here, especially on bigger maps.

Once again, they're not OP'd, just hard to handle and a bit too cheap for the damage they are able to inflict. They come out very early and have the ability to dominate early game! Just read the post I made here yesterday, about the 3vs3 which was decided by a Scout Car on my part. Rolled it out, upgraded it and ran into 2 Soviet Scout Cars, making mine achieve vet 2 in seconds, allowing me to drive around behind enemy lines, killing enemy infantry by the bunch. We were already pushing towards their base without a single T3 unit on the field... Sure it was a stroke of luck to run into those Soviet Scout Cars, but still. I play mainly Ostheer, but I must say, it needs an increased price in order to balance things out.

Like I said before, in order to deal with it properly, Soviet has to adapt his early game, making Special Rifle Command a tricky choice as starter building...

I've watched the first 15 minutes of this replay and to me it seems you were a bit too careless with your initial infantry, at one point you lost 10+ men when you tried to get to that Halftrack and blindly ran through German defenses, which tilted the odds towards the enemy. I wonder why it took you two attempts, from my point of view (was watching the Germans) you could've destroyed it the first time around. Also, I would've gone for more T70s instead of building that T34, since you were facing 3 Grenadiers squads and 2 MG nests.

Also I wouldn't have gone for those two mortars, but that's a preference I suppose (if I use mortars, I tend to go exclusively for the heavy ones.)

Obviously it's easy to watch a replay and say what should've been done, I know it's a lot harder to read the enemy during the game.

2 cons, Molotov, base healing, t1, scout cars+flame for the engines, 2 snipers and 2(shock, guards, cons) depending on commander and in any order, t3, t34 spamming, t70 if he goes too much infantry. and win. if you are not winning adjust strategy accordingly.

A valid strategy, if you go for Guard Rifles. If you go with Shock Troops, you have no valid response to the improved german T2. You could go for AT grenades and keep your conscripts together, but I don't know if they will be able to take down a Scout Car, let alone a Flamer Halftrack...

So how do you think the Germans will counter?.

Haven't played enough games (5 games) to be conclusive about it, but as I see it the Scout Car becomes an early game necessity (perhaps even more than the Flamer Halftrack).
I would also go for heavier AT in mid-game. Paks come to mind, since you won't have enough ammo to upgrade a Scout Car and build Panzerfausts / Mines quick enough. Perhaps putting ammo as a priority instead of fuel (which was a valid technique before the patch as well). The StugIII might (finally) become useful to handle the Soviet T3, though I'm not sure about it. I've based this mostly on theoretical thinking, I'm going to play more games tonight.

I played a 3vs3 today as German. I took back a Panzer IV which must have been lost by one of my allies