Profile of Cruzz

After their initial impact they perform pretty poorly.

I wish. To be honest I would be quite likely to build a squad even if they had to walk from the edge of the map every time. Very good ranged dps, faust and amazing vet is nothing to scoff at.

You also get them for "free" with the strafe.

Jaegers are even worse, they perform freaking amazing for a 340MP squad as they act like super-PGs, their only weakness is having to pick their doctrine instead of one with MG34s.

please point out the stats which make the IS2 worthless against infantry. is it the 5 aoe radius? its damage profile may not make full use of that radius, but thanks to crits, it doesnt really matter. is the 5.7 scatter compared to the tigers 4.3 making it unable to hit anything? maybe it was the nerf down to 160 damage while nearly doubling its reload speed?

The high distance scatter offset value that makes every shot that misses, miss by a mile?

It's not worthless against infantry, but the Tiger is clearly superior in that department right now.

Nope..is-2 are scarier than tiger these days as a vehicle due to armor.
LMG gren spam..lol.Shocks laugh at its fodder and USA can outblob it.USA will infact in lower game modes won't even let u get there most of the time,either 0 cp jeep or 1919 blobs or 7 minute aa halftrack.Panzer 4s?Scarier than any soviet tanks....?HAHAHAH.man ur a senior member.. i know ur currently favouring soviets as ur faction,but don't become a laughing stock ,ur bias is showing through.

IS2 individually might be scarier at vet0, but gets nothing at vet1 and the soviet faction gives far worse support to it than Ostheer gives to Tiger. Yes I don't give a shit about shocks as long as I have grens, guards are a better choice because they come with mark target. USF jeep is not scary, it's a weak M3 and seeing it means you're not going to see the far, far better lieutenant light vehicles any time soon. AA halftrack is probably the most overrated unit for the axis fanclub, I barely can stomach even building one because of how clunky it is to use with the reverse gun position that gives it the shittiest pathfinding ever seen in Company of Heroes award.

As for what faction I favor, you could just look at my playercard to see which ones I'm doing well with or have more games as (though the number of games is a bit misleading because I'm forced to play allies due to it mostly being >80% searching as axis when I play), but I guess that's too much of an effort.

USF faction with most options? More like least, atleast if you actually want to win. They're extremely patternistic, even more than soviets, which is an achievement. Deviate from the pattern even a little and you've pretty much already thrown away your chance at winning against an equal opponent. 4 rifles to LT to light vehicle to Major to Sherman (or M8) spam. Assault Engineers optionally to replace 1 rifleman and you can spam the doctrinal vehicles instead. You can go captain pretty much only if you have Rifle Company.

Soviets are pretty damn shit against OKW except for two cheese strats, one is maxim spam, other is sniper spam. Anything other than these two extremes tends to fail really hard against fusilier blobs or mg34 spam or even jaeger spam. The other two OKW doctrines don't actually exist. Soviets are also fairly impotent against Ostheer later on in the game unless they've got call-in tanks, because their own tech vehicles suck horse nuts compared to PIVs with the blitzkrieg cheese mode activated again. And then Dane wonders why people spam these same things as soviets every game.

OKW is the top dog in 1vs1 ever since the 100% muni change as long as you don't mind playing the same two (or three if you count jaegers, I haven't actually used them) every single game. Base unit wise they have a ton of relatively viable strats compared to other factions, but they do tend to need those hilariously op doctrinal infantry units to truly compete because without them their infantry DPS primarily comes from glass cannon units and suppression from easily killed light vehicles. The only strat from USF that is remotely scary to them is hardcore EZ8 spam, and the only strats from soviets that are scary are sniper (on very open maps with few buildings) or maxim (on maps that aren't that) spam to T34/85 spam or ISUs on an open map.

Ability is not OP. The US base is just badly designed.

It works 100% as well on a soviet player who does not spread his base buildings over a huge area (which you generally won't do because you're wasting time on your combat engineers by forcing them to walk around, and buildings in the back of the HQ area are less useful because you won't be able to reinforce near base exit when placing like that. That said soviets atleast have a "cheap" solution of building T1 (or T2) in the farthest corner of the base once they see jaegers.