Profile of Serrith

RANT WARNING:
When OSTTR was placed in T1 together with grens, IMO OSTTR lost its purpose, Being so similar to Grens.

would prefer if it was buildable in T0 (HQ) together with pio's and MG42's, as i still find its function best as a T1 skip/Gren replacement.

I agree. Though tier 1 should still be encouraged so id recommend locking osttruppen field works(sandbags and barb wire) behind tier 1 as well as CP if osttruppen were put in T0.

let's add here the trash anti-air on the Schwerer Panzer HQ, I swear literally anyone manning that gun than them will be better at the job

Ironically its effectiveness is closer to reality then most of the other AA in the game. A single AA piece was simply not effective against aircraft by itself. You needed large numbers of them to be truly effective similar to a musket.

Sure i agree with you, but the thing is Assault Engineer(which i assume you meant) and shocks are both doctrinal units and serve different roles in your unit roster, let's say you compare rangers and shocks which fill a similar role(if rangers go for Thompsons of course),shocks have nade and smoke nade and come deadly at close range by default, Rangers need to upgrade,have nade and can grab a bar(even with thompson), see not a great number of diffent abilities/utilities and if only counting active abilities the Rangers just lack a smoke nade.

Or if you go for a Axis/allies matchup you get Assault Grenadiers vs Shocks(closest matchup i can think in term of roles): Assault can upgrade to 6 man(veteran model) have Nades and sprint, while for shocks they have the nade and smoke nade. And Again i know the squads have different stats(armor,weapons and values) but they do serve similar roles.

Again nothing like the host of abilities/utilities the ISs can get compared to any other mainline unit by default.

There are plenty of situations where two units with similar purposes have different numbers of abilities.

LMG paras and LMG obers are similar- both are elite infatry with an emphasis on long range. What abilities do paras have? Well they have activated suppression, and they have cooked nades. What do obers have? They've got bundled nades, smoke nades, activated suppression with vet and booby traps. Oh and they are non doc.

Or how about non doc rifles vs volks? Rifles get rifle at nade and pinneaple, volks get faust incendiary nade and can build sandbags.

And interestingly sometimes when a unit has too many abilities it actually becomes problematic for that unit. Take sturmpioneers- they can repair, sweep for mines, build defenses, build landmines, offer healing for troops and have a stun grenade. I mean that sounds like a great unit right? No other engineer can give aoe healing, no other engineer has stun nades, no other engineer can get a minesweeper without sacrificing firepower. One could be forgiven for thinking that sturmpioneers are an OP unit. But they're not. There are other things that need to be considered before blanket declaring they are too strong.

No I can assure you this.

The most disappointing thank is the M10 'Achilles' from the UKF.

I don't even see the point of it existing.
Waste of a skill slot just like "Elite Vehicle Crews Upgrade"

Ironically if you look at its stats and compare them to similarly priced vehicles you'll see that the M10 is one of the most cost efficient units in the whole game.

All the while volks doing a better anti garrison job...
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We need to stop comparing units in a vacuum.

This is because soviets have a much higher number of other non doc anti garrison options. Engineer flamers, mortar, zis, su76 and katy while okw only has the LEIG and the stuka.

If volks role is to be a meat shield for obers they do a terrible job at it. They have the worst max vet RA of all the mainline infantry while not benefitting from very cheap reinforce costs nor sporting good damage output. I also see people saying volks beat riflemen at long range. This is only true at the absolute maximum engagement ranges.