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Has anyone confirmed that the USF mine actually hasn't been changed?

I planted some in one game, and the model of the mine looked different.

I may do a test game against the AI to see if infantry can trigger them and what kind of damage they do.

If they missed that, then that's a huge inadvertent nerf.

• Americans were masters of artillery in WW2, so their lack of reliable arty in-game is out of place. Their lack of non-doctrinal heavy artillery needs remedy, because the pack howitzer just does not cut it. Either the Priest or a Calliope need to be in the American arsenal by default. Perhaps the standard Sherman could have a munitions upgrade for a Calliope attachment?
  
• The major is worthless as anything but a retreat point and the occasional arty barrage. Allow the ambulance to act as a retreat point by itself once the tank tier is unlocked. Either remove the major or completely change his role.
  
• Rear echelon troops need mines. Why isn't this in the game already? I can't believe they can't build them. And not those crappy 5-muni mines. Good ones. They should be able to build sandbags, too.
  
• Ambulance should heal passively if in base sector
  
• Americans need a tier 0 mortar.
  
• Put the 57mm in the tier 0 building but make it require either captain or lieutenant. Captain tier then gets a more expensive, higher damaging and higher-penetrating M5 3" AT gun. This is basically the same as having the mortar in tier 0, with the pack howitzer being an "upgrade" in the Captain tier.
  
• Please add rangers and/or a Thompson weapon rack
  
• Armor company's worthless Thompson vehicle crew upgrade could instead be changed to a Thompson weapon rack in place of the M1919
  
• M20 manpower cost is too high. AA halftrack manpower and fuel cost is also debatable, but understandable.
  
• When I pop out vehicles crews, I like to shift click them back into the vehicle so they'll re-embark when finished repairing. However, it takes a over a full second before you can do this. Fix that pudding!
  
• Increase the Sherman's penetration slightly. Not too much, just enough so it doesn't bounce off Panzer IV's all the time.
  
• Weapon crews need a received accuracy reduction, or 5 men. As of now, they get torn to ribbons too fast.
  

Perfect list here.

Mines and good arty are the two things I miss most from CoH1 USA. I loved going Infantry Doc and blowing the smithereens out of opponents with on and off-map howie blasts. The lack of RE mines is bizarre and leaves the infantry with less of a purpose when they are by themselves. There are SO many times I'd love to mine a road or fuel point to stall infantry advance, but as USF I can't. I have to play a game of putting out fires and constantly shifting my positioning.

I'll add to the list, Bazookas need a buff. More reliable penetration and slightly longer range, and good accuracy. Leave the dmg advantage for schrecks.

Major needs arty buff. It takes way too long to come down. All but the most narcoleptic opponents have time to dodge it.

They are really, really stupidly difficult to play, especially in late game now. I'm speaking mainly from a 2v2 perspective.

When multiple Axis super-heavies are out in the very late game, GOOD LUCK. You can't spam out EZ8's anymore due to the tech requirement (more fuel), and AT guns have incredibly low survivability. You have the Jackson, but you can't use it offensively to chase and finish anything. So you essentially are forced into a stalemate where you sit on VPs/fuel and try not to get steamrolled by walking stuka + super armor. Meanwhile babysitting a crazy amount of units whilst the axis player babysits 2-4 big ones.

Essentially this problem has been playing CoH2 since WFA was released, but I'm blown away that the only buff USF got was the weapons rack combination. Unbelievable. I've been playing Heroes of the Storm and will continue to until Relic makes changes.

IMO, anyone who is truly objective and not faction-biased can see that this unit is out of control OP.

Alongside the JagdTiger shooting through buildings, the Walking Stuka is the most broken unit in the game.

It makes weapons teams absolutely obsolete. Even normal infantry are not safe if you move them. Normal arty can be retreated from with minimal wiping due to RNG. But Stuka will routinely wipe squads that retreat immediately after hearing the firing noise due to the set path of fire.

So... weapons teams are too slow to move out of the barrage and infantry that retreat will get wiped anyway by the linear creep barrage.

It not only kills men but blows up their crew weapons wholesale and does heavy damage to all Allied armor.

To boot, it's very nimble and has heartier HP than all similarly priced on-map arty counterparts.

When it's being defended by Volks blobs with Schreks and a JT that can shoot you through walls on approach, on top of its very fast speed, good luck even sending a suicide unit to kill it. It will only work if Axis player is AFK, and even then maybe not due to Jagd.

We've just pushed an update, details can be found here: http://bit.ly/13gFG3q

Shout out to the team that worked hard to get this out! Sorry for the frustration, folks.

Gremlins. <shakes fist>

Thank you! Very fast turnaround. Thank you, Cynthia and all staff who put in overtime to fix these issues.