That's part of the problem with the US deck. You may have more and better options here and there, but lack the activation points to actually use all of them...
West Germany has great armor, decent infantry in okayish IFVs or fast APCs and in support it's clearly superior.
I'd take the Gepard over the Chaparral any day because of accuracy and ammunition count, especially in combination. The Roland 2 is perfectly sufficient, more accurate and also has more ammunition than the I-HAWK. I like the avenger but it's not very well suited to defend against helicopters with long range ATGMs. The PIVADS is a little better but you always have to decide between all of them which already makes the US deck worse, W. Germany gets two systems which cover all cases of air defense. In fact the Gepard can sometimes work quite well just by itself. In a motorized or mechanized deck they also get more veterancy while you do not lose any important units
In the support and helicopter categories the US gets a better choice but the use of these units is relatively situational and not always mandatory.
In the air the US gets a lot more choice but again, you cannot have it all. Since I dislike cluster bombers mostly, I get a good ATGM plane, a good air defense fighter and an iron bomber with West Germany and that's about all I need anyway since using aircraft is most of the time something I just get do once with the exception of air superiority fighters. I love(d) the A-10 but at some point they apparently nerfed it so now it often misses with three Mavericks in a row...
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