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Except following things are not possible with the Ostwind:
- wiping sqauds instantly
- guaranteed model kill with each shot
- can frontally counter AT guns on range 60 (!) thanks to bunker busting barrage.
- survives 4 pak shots
- uneven terrain or fences dont bother the gun
- can shoot over shotblockers

Well, your point is much more understandable now. But you have to keep in mind that this is the result of many patches trying to make brummbar a viable tool in 1v1.

What would you propose to acheive these 3 goals at the same time:
- make brummbar less viable in 4v4,
- make brummbar more seen in 1v1 - accessibility is the issue here IMO,
- keep it as a better late game choice than stug e in any game mode?

It has the same hp as a stug that also costs 90 fuel. I don't see your point.

Also, a shot from a tiger deals exactly the same damage as an AT gun one, just for your interest.

if we are talking about the 1v1 then the answer is simple build counters to enemy unit you have least counters against. In this case you expected armour to come so you needed more raketens. Then hide them so that your opponent doesn't know about them and bait his kv into a trap.

Going additional volks or doctrinal infantry would be a good choice if you know that your opponent relies mostly of infantry becouse he already lost his fuel purchase or had a poor map control.

As for ukf and all the other factions, remember that apart from some very rare and demanding builds, caches are not a good idea in 1v1. That is becouse the revenue is so slow. In 1v1 the cache has to be on the field for 20 minutes before it pays for itself and becouse the frontline is often changing it very rarely does. Also, this additional manpower can be used for gaining more ground and thus getting even more resources.

So, similarly to okw it is better to build more units of the type you need at the moment instead, becouse at that point of the game you are not pop capped yet. Alternatively you can try something that is usually too costly to pay out but not in this situation - attacking the most secured and valuable part of enemy line.

It's good that you found a solution but I'll try to give you some more choices.

First possibility is to bind it to caps lock - this is what I do and it is really good becouse it is one of the most accessible keys. (anybody knows the history behind vim's escape key? )

Alternatively, you can rebind some other key to space, or if all you write in chat is "gl hf", just bind yourself some key to enter-g-l-space-h-f-enter and forget about it

There are 3 main posibilities:
1. Light vehicles - every faction has at least one that can easily detect snipers and often kill on retreat. Even if it doesn't kill the sniper, it still reduces your bleed becouse opponent can't go too far with it. Especially effective against brit sniper becouse of lack of snare, even though kubel my not sound like a dream vehicle for the job. M20 is also really good at it, just becouse of its mobility. It can also dive osheer base and come back alive if you can avoid eating a faust, which is a great advantage.
2. Light artillery - mortars and ISGs are very effective tools against snipers. The cool part is that they shoot automatically when the sniper reveals itself. Especially good against soviet sniper, becouse it has only 64 HP per model and so, can be wiped with one shot. And the shot doesn't even have to land dead on like in case of infantry.
3. Infantry flank - the most versatile one but you need most work to pull it off. Still, it is often the way a sniper dies. Especially good if it is a wide flank so your opponent doesn't know what exactly you are going after.

Bonus points if you can bait a sniper over mine - it happens from time to time.

Of course, later in the game everything can counter snipers, blobs, long range infantry, tanks. But the damage is already done so ideally you should be able to do it earlier.