Profile of VindicareX

The fact that you need an AT gun at ~7 minutes into the game puts a severe manpower shortage on a faction that desperately needs combined arms to stand a chance against riflemen. Meaning the need for early pak gun makes it far more difficult to get enough infantry out to handle the superior riflemen. Your grens don't stand a chance in hell and you need MGs to control the rifles (meaning you must play defensively as to not let them get flanked: this defensive play is very map dependent.

Not that much different than Soviets (especially before t-34's got buffed), outside of doctrinal tanks.

Considering Half the Soviet commanders have tank call ins, and nearly all of them have infantry/tank call-ins, I don't really consider a soviet army limited to basic T34s or Su-85s.

If American early game wasn't so dominant, people would see that American tanks are indeed a bit weak. Their late game often falls flat due to their tanks having low HP (luckily they can usually close out the game before that or mass enough tanks to overwhelm the AT).

In my opinion, Americans must mass tanks late game to compensate for the lack of heavy tanks.

I'd switch it with the Pack Howitzer, but yea I'd like to see the halftrack moved to the Captain's tier.

The most pressing issue I can see is the Wehrmacht vs Americans matchup. Grenadiers are pretty much useless and are only good for getting sniped off my rifle shots. Machine guns are your best bet but are as susceptible as ever to flanks (meaning if you're not in perfect positions, you're going to lose). Sniper also does good... for a time until the inevitable t1 scout car/AA Halftrack comes out.

- To further prove my point: almost all ESL games played in the WFA Launch Cup were won by Allied armies with the Germans always struggling to survive.

My suggestions:
- Buff Grens. They just suck so hard until they get vet 2/3 and get an LMG. Until then, they can barely hold their own vs Conscripts. They get slaughtered hard by American riflemen. But this can have problems with their scaling.

- Nerf Riflemen. Honestly I'm pretty tired of these guys. They dominate any infantry they see 1v1 and it forces me to hide in a corner with 3 squads to even stand a chance vs them. Their potency makes it impossible to gain any good map control in the early stages of the game.

- Nerf the AA halftrack. This unit is utter horseshit. Comes out 7 min in the game and instantly suppresses everything, has insane Infantry damage, and to top it off, it destroys vehicles too! 221/222 dies like flies to it (even double upgun fails vs 1 hlaftrack). And the OKW Puma will also die unless you have very careful micro.
- Move this unit to Captain's t2. Here it has a more fitting role of a potent vehicle that can suppress and damage from afar. Switch it with the pack howitzer. This way, Americans have earlier access to barrage units (and clear buildings which their infantry lack at). At the moment, trying to take this thing on at 7 min in the game is challenging to say the least.
- Or severely reduce it's anti tank capabilities. The fact that it can destroy light vehicles with ease makes it a monster to try to kill. Why else does every American player get rush this thing?

Also, fix grenades please. Half the time I use the ability to doesn't even work/attempt to throw. It just glows green like someone is throwing (which they aren't) then I eventually have to move and lose the munitions.
And an attempt to help rakketen rotation and firing would be nice. It seems to get stuck on terrain and has trouble rotating to fire even at long range; it often needs those precious moments of firing to get themselves comfortable or something.

Of course discussion is always welcome.