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I play all of them, but currently im in a love affair with the americans.  Ive gotten a good streak with the M8 + Bars + Rangers strat, which gets all those out at about the same time.  Its beautiful when its done right.

I throw in a pair of quad .50s for the PE blobs    :P

I thought it was, and the two proposed counters can be overthrown by this strat though, albeit with extreme casualties

the mp44s:
Supression with the bars, grenades, and a prayer

the ostwind:
have each rifle squad in the area throw a sticky bomb on it, and once a squad has thrown it, retreat that squad.  This will try to maximize damage and minimize casualties.  Once you do as much damage with the stickys, move in teh rangers, and spread them out to avoid multi-kills from the ostwind.  You'll need at least 2-3 ranger squads to even have a hope of killing an already weakened ostwind.  Fire up and spread out, try to get behind.  This is just for one ostwind.  If there are two, and they have veterancy, you're screwed.

I dont really care about the B level story, but the gameplay in crysis is some of the best FPS action I've ever played.  If its more of that (with the MP7!  Thats my Airsoft gun!) then I'll be compeltely satisfied.

Its not meant to be the indefeatable strategy, its meant to be the easiest strategy for beginners.  If youve just started the game, you can hold your own in a 2v2 with this strat. 

Basic Starter Strategy - American army. 

Engineer 1x - Only starting engineer, have him build barracks.
Rifleman (ad nausem, probably around 5)x - Spam Rifleman, use them to cap, attack in groups, try to attack from all sides, move in close to do the most damage.
Choose Infantry Company, go down the left hand side getting to rangers.
(Once you hit 60 fuel) Buy B.A.R.s for the rifleman
(Once you get 20 more fuel) get a Triage Center at your base to heal the wounded rifleman
(Once you get Rangers)  Stop building rifleman, keep your existing squads alive.  Build rangers.

Rangers are effective anti armor weapons and the rifleman are good against all infantry.  If you can afford it, buy the rest of the rifleman upgrades as well as upgrade ranger squad with thompsons.

Continue down the left hand side and once you get Off map combat group, get that, it should give you heftier anti tank weaponry.