Profile of Greeb

I think Luchs it's ok, but at least for soviets the pityful state on which guards are currently makes Luchs much more fearsome.
ZiS is not a reliable counter to them and T3 is not a good option against current OKW volks blobs.

It's good to have cheese, but you still need "conventional" play to be reliable.

That resumes all for me.

I like cheese and original strats, but currently "conventional" play is just a sure loss against odd strats that doesn't require any kind of micro.

@MajorBloodnok, just before I conceded that the game was pretty balanced before WFA. Is WFA what screwed all balance giving us factions with discutible design.
I was told that OKW was remade from scratch just weeks before the release date, so it's not strange the current state of the game.

I wouldn't say OKW is the root of most balance issues, it's the way most factions are designed atm. Each faction has strengths and weaknesses depending on the early-mid-and late game. The problem is the way certain factions can have a strong advantage over the other either early on or later on that causes things to become problematic. Like USF late game at times. I'm speaking for 1v1 specifically.

The same for teamgames, but in there the factions with stronger lategame have the upper hand.

Soviets and Ost were not mirrored factions but their game stages were pretty balanced overall. WFA instead destroyed that balance, being OKW the most easy scapegoat being the faction strongest at the lategame and thus giving the most trouble in teamgames, the most popular game modes.

I see a lot of ppl does not know the meaning of "fairplay".

I stopped discussing with him after reading that, as soviet, being forced to use sniper spam or being unable to tech is a fair a fun strategy to use. Not lame at all.

So what's your solution?
If you balance for the average joe, you are gonna have plenty more abusive things in the game.

Well, to begin with, balance should be more focused toward team games, as they are the gamemodes played the most by new players. What fun does a game have knowing beforehand that your chances to win are lower than your enemy's just because faction design? That's why you always see more axis players than allied ones.

I prefer to see changes to help the casual player to have fun, even if that means that the top players will abuse them. I was going to lose equally against them, so I don't care, but at least I won't lose against a less skilled player just because his faction is better than mine in teamgames.

I play soviets, yes, and my playercard shows how this game balance has changed, as I have been usually between top 100-300, and after WFA was released I've been plummeting till #3000. I've noticed that allied random players are way more noobish than the axis ones, as if experienced players avoided playing allies because they know they are harder to micro, boring and less probable to win with. Having that in account (a more novice player pool) and refusing to play cheesy strategies like sniper+guards or B4 spam, makes playing as soviet a sure loss against equally skilled enemies (usually even againts less skilled ones).

OKW is just the last nail in the coffin. A faction that allows brainless blobbing without combined arms at all. All soviet T3 units can be screwed by just a couple of volks+schrecks, and all T4 units can be destroyed easily by an immortal Puma or even volks (again), and I won't talk about reinforcing and repairing near key points.
All soviet infantry is a joke except shocks, and they are doctrinal, and they became useless too when Obers take the field.

Although factions shouldn't be mirrored, they should have equal power in all stages of the game. Making a faction more powerful early or late in the game just creates imbalances impossible to avoid in bigger games. Relic should start by that. Probably making USF weaker early game, but improving their lategame units.
OKW main weaknesses are useless if their reduced economy enables them to field armored vehicles as fast as any other faction, and their lack of medium tanks doesn't mean anything if their cheapest infantry can destroy T34s face to face.

If they do this you have two options, one is to try and suppress them with MG (you will need a spotter of course)

Even with spotter, maxim can't stop blobs.

And when obers are out, they can stop anything anymore.