Profile of niutudis

vickers - IS - Bolstersqad/IS - Bolstersqad/IS (fuel depending...)
asap t2 - Engineer - Atgun - Engineer - defensive placed mortarpit (somtimes)

more engineers/atguns (depending on what the enemy has on the field)

until enough fuel for t3 centaur/cromwell (depending on what the enemy has on the field) - Anvil

I know this is not the most efficient way to play earlygame, but I tend to lose snipers realy quick and engineers are nice for flanking.

Commander I take pretty much always is "Special Weapons Regiment".
I get atleast 1 AT-IS , because spotting the enemys Tanks/vehicles on the map is just priceless. When I lose normal IS I replace them with AT-IS.
Sometimes ,depending on the map I even get the halftrack.

Later in the game the offmap-artillery and "hold the line" are realy nice tools to turn the game in my favaour.
Croc is a nice bonus, but not allways a good choice. When in doubt I would rather get another cromwell.

Ost- players tend to go for mg42 - pio - t1 - gren - sniper/gren etc... into Pakwall - stug/ostwind and the inevitable Tiger.
Haven´t played against osttruppen so far.

OKW-Players tend to get a second or even a third S.Pio-squad and try to wipe out my IS or vickers early.

Before I get Bolstersquads and engineers I am in trouble and have to retreat early to prevent Squadwipes or too much MP-losses.
In some matches I was reduced to a few sectors before I managed to get hold on Fuel/ammo and atleast 1 VP.
Thats maybe because of my inability to use the sniper.

I never get a UC because it would delay Bolster/t2 and I am not sure If the UC could make the earlygame easier for me.

Pretty much every match I won so far I had a comeback (30-100 vps left, opponent 400+). Last match I had exactly 1vp left while the ostplayer had around 400 (very defensive player ostwind+paks+mg), I won because he quitted after loosing pretty much his whole army because of my desperate yolo-lastchance-attack.

Rifleflamers and abandoned vehicles should get out of the game , both are terrible ideas and relic knows it. Flamerdamage against units in cover is ok, you dont hide behind a little wall if a flamethrower is used against you and get away without being heavily injured.

Suppression of indirectfire units is ok , if it´s a barrage. I think all indirect fire should only be barrage,but with light suppression.
Imo with "walking stuka style" barrages it would turn mortar/isgs into handy blobpunishers, the circleshaped barrages are only usefull against stationary targets.

Damage output is ok, especialy if you use the vet1-ability.
The lack of mobility makes it kind of worthless.

For me it has a lot todo with the unpredictable length of a match.
I mean you can win/lose a match in 15-20 minutes or it can go on for more then an hour. My longest 1vs1 was about 1,5hours.
Most of the time, if you have even the slightest reallife, you cant concentrate fully on the game -wife, children,cats, dogs, phone or doorbell- gg wp.

So watching a stream is just something that is easier todo and can be entertaining.

In the case of the Forumwarriors, I think most of them don´t play at all, very rarely or play teamgames sitting "behind" their teams and looking out for "op-things" of their most hated faction.
Also you can read a lot of theorycrafting, "in a vacuum" arguments, or "thought out anecdotal evidence" from them, while actual players mostly (not always) see a bigger picture and/or their own mistakes, if they are not totaly new to this game.

PS: Go loot at Relics' streams, they too have frequent 1 sec freezes every now and then.

You can see those freezes in EVERY stream and in replays... in gardening REPLAYS