Profile of ThoseDeafMutes

They have a smoke nade that calls 2 howies from their base with no doctrine. Lack of non doctrine indirect fire?

They do have it, but it's a waste of munitions. The only time it is guaranteed to do any damage at all is on static positions, and we're not talking "getting slammed by 152s from last patch" level damage. I've seen the base howitzers cast on an mg that didn't even reposition and come out unscathed. The amount of time it gives them to retreat is positively huge, so they could actually increase the firepower of these barrages substantially but still have them be basically ineffective except to force people to reposition their units in response. It's not really "non-doctrinal artillery", it's more like a crappy satchel charge.

I think Brits can be mobile just nobody knows wtf they're doing with them yet so they just play defensively with multiple Vickers etc. The fact that Vickers are bugged with their range could possibly have something to do with that(just maybe lol). I could see an early 5 man upgrade with LMG's and/or upgraded Bren Carrier being very mobile and powerful. It's also early in their life span, VERY early. Tommies will be tweaked, things will change. But I think it's much better to adjust tommies to scale than over-do emplacements.

Mortar pit should be pretty resilient vs other mortars but very weak vs fire and shreks and very weak during construction to small arms in general. All other emplacements should be vulnerable to mortars and indirect fire. This is how it was in vCOH and honestly I can't see a balanced alternative. This brace nonsense has got to get revamped or go.

Brits can be played mobile, but it's broadly ineffective in the early-mid game. You can't compete in numerical terms and have no real way to dislodge enemy MG strongpoints until you get the (about to be significantly nerfed) Universal Carrier Wasp upgrade, which explodes when a stiff breeze is thrown its way. You can hold land, but then when the enemy responds to your MGs and infantry positions with indirect fire, the only two responses are try to rush their indirect, or build a mortar pit. But their indirect is itself kind of a hard counter to yours, and your own indirect is needed to counter their Mgs. Which it can't do while also getting shelled by their indirect. It's a real mess, balance wise. Sometimes you can get it to work but it's not reliable. Every game is more or less stalling for tanks, because when you get to T3 you legitimately do have what it takes to get a hard hitting fast moving army.

The UC nerf to flamer was deserved, because the WASP was too good. The MG upgrade is not great though, actually I'd say its pretty terrible. Not even just the cost, the actual upgrade time is very large, considering the small window of opportunity you have where the UC can even theoretically be an effective unit (i.e. before scout car hits and obliterates it).

The thing is 15 fuel. Gren fausts are a damned hard counter to it. It's all well and good to say "oh yeah 25 detection radius and bonus acc vs sniper" but like, the recloak time is insane on the ost sniper so you barely get a shot off even with mg upgrade coz the UC paths like a beached whale. And this relies on the idea that you can either drive the sniper's support off prior to chasing the sniper, or it isn't supported generally. The fact that Grens are tougher and more accurate than they're supposed to be is just making this situation even more ridiculous because your 280mp tommies are only on par with their 240mp grens assuming you're in cover.

The Bren carrier needs a fucking force field that will protect it from AT snares. Because all of the other proposed changes won't actually let it chase a sniper consistently. And staying at long range to 'spook' the sniper is not going to save you because of its crazy recloak time. You have to already have the guns facing the right way and be in range to get any bullets off.

So for every Infatry section, 6 carriers where build? That sounds strange, so either I missed the spam carriers meta or some players spammed them really hard.

Considering sniper cheese was and still is the meta and considering how vulnerable brens are to dying after one faust and some small arms fire, it actually may not be as surprising as it first seems. Bren is the obvious counter to snipers, it's just hopeless at it. After getting buttraped by snipers in a few games people probably stopped building second inf sections in favor of trying to preemptively counter the snipers. No extra inf sections and investing in engineers heavily is also another strat since the bleed is less costly.

Does anyone have a full stats comparison of all the LMGs in the game?

Cost increase to 300 would probably be fine, the extra 20mp is for TWP. But this should only happen if we get corresponding mp decreases elsewhere because MP is really painful with this faction.