Profile of Esxile

Luchs as always been a problem because of OKW blobby faction design and the effectiveness of combining both Blob and Luchs enough early when the opposition has only enough resource or to counter your blob or to counter the Luchs. I'm watching actually some live games on Twitch and from what I see OKW just need again to blob volks into Luchs into panther/Obers.

USF and OKW are two factions design around strong mobility so called Blob. Till the beginning Relic tried hard to balance it with counterparts, weak sides. Like for USF few support units, good but not really armored (with in compensation a fast repair ability) and no heavies (till the Pershing). OKW, few strong support units limited by resource starvation by access to super heavies. Now the resource starvation is gone we see the result, blob is more potent than ever and access to support and super heavies unit completely free.

This is not really a question of meta and adaptability, OKW can field a 3-4 minutes blob with good and easy to use AT and 6 minutes a unit that completely counter your anti-blob units.


Still I agree it is too early to say if OKW is OP in 1vs1. But there is no way to say wait and see in 3vs3-4vs4, those mode are now completely broken with this patch.

How is the matchup M15 vs Luchs now that Luch penetration has come from 25 to 20.

I have the impression going T2 is the wrong decision vs OKW. Better having an early M15+zook.

My idea is blob control is more important than hard-countering the Luch, if you micro your M15 well it can keep it at bay and be lucky with a couple of zook shots.

I have been playing Ostheer recently and feel no particular issue vs USF or Sov till now (at least). Playing vs one or the other isn't really different to me at the end.

BO:
x1 HMG42
X2 Gren
x1 HMG42
x1 gren or x1 pio (depend on what I need)
BP1 when 40 fuel
x1 sdfk 251 to keep map presence

Next depend on the game.

My tips are:
1- Do not rush early game in his side, keep your 1st MG next to your 1st pio and gren. Cap Fuel/Ammo/cutoff and defend it. Set mine to defend your flanks.

2- Except if he is turtling himself, always wait for his attack - retreat and next send your unit to cap his territories. the 251 is good for that since you can move it with them and reinforce in any territories. Set some mines if you can during the operation. Also use 1 of your HMG to cover them, just a-move it behind them so it can naturally setup when the enemi counter attack.

3- MG management: always have a spotter, pio or gren, never leave the unit in your front line. With that, always use a-move with the MG so it will not setup, if you use it well with the spotter you'll always have time to setup and fire and not being flanked.

4- If you are flanked, retreat instantly, never hope on RNG jesus to save your ass.

5- T3 Stug first in almost all my game to counter medium works well.

So far by only following those tips, this brought me to rank330 without any particular or exceptional micro and I almost never pick a doctrine before 15/20 minutes. I also almost never upgrade LMG42 on my gren.

There is no series of games quite like CoH. Every time I lose it feels like I lost because of bullshit. It's usually not until I reevaluate it from spectating that I realize mistakes I made. When I win it's pure skill, when I lose it's because the game is shit.

I know your feel. But still now (haven't played in some days and I am totally calm right now) I think that the Allies have way more options for cheesy strats (I play Axis 99% of the time). Sure, the Axis also have a lot of bullshit but that's mostly behind p2w commanders I don't own.

I played several games vs you Highfive, some won some lost, I remember one where I all-in and lose badly (USF vs you OKW on Semois summer), you put your healing truck behind first house top start and I all-in on it with fast capt and lose my stuart/atgun and captain + zooks when I tried to destroy it.

I was Salty, mostly because of those new goddam OKW molotovs. But finally, I didn't even watch the replay to understand my mistakes during the game and I decided to improve the strat

This game is still a reference in my mind on "what to not do!" Now I always go T1 first anyway as USF.

Something I'm proud of myself about win-because-of-my-skill-lose-because-of-RNG is that I recognize when I win because of RNG. People tend to think they lose or win because of RNG 1 game over 10, I personaly think 1/3 of my victories/defeats are due to RNG. And I accept that, it makes defeat and victories feeling much more stable!

Watching the replay usually helps a lot to get the salt level down.