History YMMV / MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault

** In ''Breakthrough'' you're going to ammo-starve to death as now only every third of fourth enemy drops their gun when killed. This means you can't lean on the MP, unlike in the base game. Considering how insanely accurate late-game enemies are this gets incredibly frustrating. Thankfully the expansions allow you to lean on the SP, which makes it much easier to avoid damage.

*** Monte Cassino II is a pain of a level, snipers in fog, lack of health and ammo even by Breakthrough's standards, enemies who track you through walls and spam grenades and then you have to rescue P.O.Ws, who practically die on 1-2 hits, and there's a bit where four enemies pop up at once, you pretty much have to take the bullet for the POW in order for him to have a chance of survival.

** STG 44-wielding soldiers in the late levels can kill players in one burst, especially on higher difficulties. Thankfully, the expansions had them spawn much less often.
** German snipers, especially on higher difficulties as well. Like the STG-44 wielding soldiers, they can effortlessly reduce a player's HP to Zero in just one magazine, with precision accuracy.
** Italian P 40 tanks in the Gela mission. They can and will overrun your position during the final portion.
* ItsHardSoItSucks: ''Breakthrough''. Compared to ''Allied Assault'' and ''Spearhead'', which by themselves were already challenging to a lot of players, this expansion takes the difficulty further by making ammunition and medical resupply much, much harder to come by, more enemy troops rushing at or opening fire at you in various sequences, and your AI allies dropping like flies much more compared to the first two titles.

* VindicatedByHistory: ''Breakthrough'' has a small following of fans who appreciate it, some actually enjoying the more limited ammo as it means the pistol/melee attack now see use since ammo was practically infinite in Allied Assault for the SMG/Rifle weapons. (Since enemies always dropped their weapon and it gave you 2 full reloads always, so a single [=MP40=] gave you 64 SMG bullets.)

** In ''Breakthrough'' you're going to ammo-starve to death as now only every third of fourth enemy drops their gun when killed.
** You can only lean in MP in the base-game considering how insanely accurate late-game enemies are this gets incredibly frustrating, thankfully the expansions allow you to lean in SP which makes it much easier to avoid damage.

* VindicatedByHistory: ''Breakthrough'' has a small following of fans who appreciate it, some actually enjoying the more limited ammo as it means the pistol/melee attack now see use since ammo was practically infinite in Allied Assault for the SMG/Rifle weapons. (Since enemies always dropped their weapon and it gave you 2 full reloads always, so a single MP40 gave you 64 SMG bullets.)

** You can only lean in MP in the base-gameconsidering how insanely accurate late-game enemies are this gets incredibly frustrating, thankfully the expansions allow you to lean in SP which makes it much easier to avoid damage.

* ScrappyWeapon: Pistols and Melee outside of Breakthrough, Ammo is so abundant for submachine guns and rifles (Yet not ironically pistols) that you'll never need to actually use them as they're inaccurate and weak unless you score a headshot while the alt-fire melee is even more pointless since you can only perform it with the pistol in the base-game ''Breakthrough'' has them be less useless due to more scarce ammo requiring you to actually use them.

** You can only lean in MP in the base-game, considering how insanely accurate late-game enemies are, this gets incredibly frustrating, thankfully the expansions allow you to lean in SP, which makes it much easier to avoid damage.

* ScrappyWeapon: Pistols and Melee, outside of Breakthrough, Ammo is so abundant for submachine guns and rifles (Yet not ironically pistols) that you'll never need to actually use them, they're inaccurate and weak unless you score a headshot, melee is even more pointless since you can only perform it with the pistol in the base-game, ''Breakthrough'' has them be less useless due to more scarce ammo requiring you to actually use them.

** Due to the [[ScrappyMechanic ridiculous recoil you get upon getting hit]] ''anyone'' with an automatic weapon counts.

** German snipers, especially on higher difficulties as well. Like the STG-44 wielding soldiers, they can effortlessly reduce a player's HP to Zero in just one magazine.