I have been hearing this bull for quite a long time now-designed with pretty solid units?Except i can't find them..what solid units?
Stock grens are fodder for rifles and are struggling vs conspam.They can only fight rifles with lmgs and vet2 or vet 3.Even then can't stand upto paras with LMG.Has to flee enmasse against shocks most of the time because they can't fire on move and shock grenade will wipe.Worst is how easy it is to lsoe vet gren squads due to 4 members.
Sniper-pretty solid unit.Dies from sneeze.Only the mortar is good.
'Good support' -Mg42...don';t make me laugh-this popcornsprayer is the worst shit.Shit mobility,bad traverse,unreliable suppression,risk being taken,urrah,smoke,no dmg and people walking right in front of it,suppresed ,then grenade ,laughs his ass off.
Powerful ATG -Its no longer something to brag abt.Pen is perhaps 10% of zis,u can make it up with bulletins.Far lower durability and no anti-blob barrage.Its ok,a good gun.
'Versatile assault troops' - Plz.Pzgrens are pathetic,40 reinforce.340mp.120 mp shrecks.1 model lost-25% DPS gone.Just stopgap AT,otherwise manpowersink nothing else.
The armored car fartcannon-i see u conveniently forgot when mentioning ur 'pretty solid units'.
Also the redundant FHT.
T3 - Pz4 can't beat anything except t-34/76.Bullied by all medium call-ins,heavies and 3 shotted by jackson(2 from out of sight) though it costs same.Stug even worse-shit penetration and 2 shotted.
Tiger- Crutch that most of the surviving players lay on.
Brummbarr-when did i see one?Never.
Panzerfer-cheap firecracker that u can't even access.
Panther-Inaccesible in lower game modes.
Overall don't know abt design,but right now this shit is not working.75% of ostheer units are far far away from being 'pretty solid units'.
I see a lot of tension my friend, chill. That was not what I meant. Read my comment again, Ostheer is my favorite faction but because of the exact balance problems you said I have not played ostheer in ages. I still say that "The Concept" of ostheer is "solid", but as I said the balance is terrible and no one denies that, specially early game versus shock units and rifle spam.
Imagine if you had a viable HMG42, Grens who deal good damage at mid range, Pzgrens who can actually kill and not get killed like flies, lower teching price which makes it easy to field 2 or 3 P4s early and finally finish their blob with a well placed Panzerwerfer barrage. Currently every single one of these units have balance issues. This can not be said as other factions, like Soviets, or even USF who are supposed to be versatile. At this moment, even a single HMG42 buff could change the game flow a lot.