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So after watching the stream, here's what I think about the US:
_Awesome inf, looks like rifleman + officers will put the fear into Grenadiers and with Bazooka they will be a terror to German armor.
_Versatile vehicle, able to repair anywhere + smoke on Sherman looks really potent
_Doctrines feel likes the old COH, each one has completely unique abilities, no more overlapping sheninngans.
_No support weapons unless dropped in by Airborne
_Late medics (looks like the ambulance comes at TII, after buying Lt and Capt
_Late mines, no non-doctrinal AI mines
_No flamethrowers
_No heavy tanks
_No tank disabling weapons(panzerfaust, AT grenade)
Overall, looks like the US will be a very micro intensive factions, even more than Soviet since everything in your army has more than 1 purpose and most of the is only effective in numbers or in flanking. US inf is strong, but late medic + lack of cheap AT weapons means unit preservation will be at paramount.
Feel free to cash in your opinions, looks like TWFA will be a better expansion to COH2 than the old OF to vCOH.

Mostly right, however wrong about the support weapons. Americans have a non doctrinal 0.30 cal HMG and a M8 howitzer instead of the mortar. Think kind of like free zis barrage but very limited anti armor capability.

And riflemen do have tank disabling weapons. The default smokegrenade slows down tanks for a short period of time and at vet 1 they get an anti tank riflegrenade.

If there was no barage on the ZIS we would never had that Highlight

That wasnt a zis barrage only that was a precision strike + zis barrage.

It's situational, but often your grens cant get to it because they get suppressed by a maxim for example, while the zis barrages support weapons and fights off scout cars and tanks. So the barrage is giving it a one unit army role.

As for the abilities you list above, they all should have a specific purpose otherwise they would introduces problems in game play.

It's very very rare that your grens will not be able to get a riflegrenade off before getting pinned by a maxim. Very very rare. But in your logic, the grenadier squad is also a one man army. It can faust, it can riflegrenade, and it can also fight infantry. And with that logic, the gaurd squad breaks the game , it can fight infantry very well with DP, it can fight light armour and can even button medium/ heavy armor! Pgrens are just completely bullshit. Anti infantry and anti armor? WTF IS THIS SHIT

Versatile units don't break the game. It's something that the soviets have since they have a limited tier structure.

Wasn't that the idea behind the t34 being good against infantry and the panzer4 being good against tanks. At the time the t34 did only 80 damage and had like 75 penetration and ultimately was changed to where its very close to the panzer 4.

So asymmetrical doesn't always work. Plus there is an easier solution, make the zis a little cheaper to compensate for its lower performance without the need for barrage for example. There is some asymmetrical design for you quality vs quantity.

But why is the current balance wrong? Like i said, 2 riflegrenades cost the same, you will always have 2 grens around, and they work better in the sense that is is instant, while if ZIS-3 miss the first shot, you can just easily reposition.
The t-34/76 is still good vs infantry, P IV vs tanks. T-34/76 loses to P IV practically every single engagement still. And thats good.

Like i'm not sure why it should be removed if rifle grenades stay in the game. Oorah + molotov can also do practically the same for even cheaper... Not the same, but almost...

What I want is for someone who understands the game and knows what he is talking about to help me understand how barrage is a balanced feature. What are the scenarios that make it a fair feature, because as I see it now this feature is making the zis more like a one man army in the face of many different units.

And the guess work is exactly what I am not interested in.

ok. So let me tell you.

PaK 40 fires 50% faster, has more penetration and if target weak point wasn't bugged, would be absolutely BEAST againts tanks. It's also 60 munitions. 2 riflegrenades cost the same and 2 grens are much more versatile than 1 zis gun. 2 riflegrenades will not only force a support weapon to retreat, but will often WIPE the entire team outright. So why can't soviets have something similar?
Their units are supposed to be more versatile because they can only have 1 out of two tier options.

Get it? That said, if you want to make a zis-3 a more effective version of a pak, please do so,relic said that soviet tier options are supposed to be more effective than german ones because you can only have 1 out of two and germans will always have the counter available to them, while soviets need to rely on doctrines more often than not.
I would love to have an at gun that can kill ostheer tanks reliably, you know, kind of like the pak 40. That would be so fun. ZIS-3 spam into kv-8 spam. So amazing strategy . Just 10/10. I guess you would like it, since that is apparently what you want it to be.

I really like the assymetrical design of this game. Please keep this relic.