Profile of Goldeneale

Rifles can do it on their own honestly.

Against snipers, I find an excellent counter as USF is to just shoot back. Unless there is an MG suppressing you (in which case you're probably about to retreat anyways), you can easily just run at the sniper once he fires and start shooting him. They have low health and aren't too hard to hit, so just shooting them is often enough to retreat them or even kill if the OH isn't paying attention.

MG42s can also be beaten by rifles simply by virtue of attacking from multiple directions. Even if you're within its arc, multiple squads spread out is often enough to get past it.

Don't take your leave, I'm sure we can continue a reasonable conversation void of any ad hominems.

The powerlevel of the Bofors, and to a lesser extent, and AEC are higher than would be otherwise to repressent the either/or choice that has to be made in teching. Granted the sheer level of efficiency of the Bofors and the wehrmacht's overwhelming inability to deal with it prompts the question "why would you go AEC over Bofors?"

I made this post because the Bofors is either overpowered or my inability to deal with it is a L2P issue. I'm not a terrible player and I haven't seen a lot of solutions to this issue, so I'm assuming that this is a issue regarding the Bofors as being over powered.

The synergy between the mortar pit/Bofors is extremely hard to deal with. I have found a few solutions that sometimes make it easier to deal with, but the fact remaines that the Bofors efficiency is absolutely amazing, more so then any other unit in it's class for it's price. (Ie. Regarding denial of area, Bofors > 37 Flak/Axis mg nest/American Mg nest)

For example, as I have previously tested out, any axis light vehicle does not have the ability to survive trying to back out of the firing range once the first shot is fired. This is due to the range being a bit larger than the sight.

After some more testing I have found that, the Bofors has a minimium range (in the cheat mod, not necessarily in the real game). I haven't tried it out yet but popping a smoke in front of it would allow you to run troops (not vehicles) right up to it, survive and take it out safely. The Bofors is surprizingly fragile to small arms fire. The minimum range is about a CM and a half on the screen, so far any unit outside of the ring will get shot and not nessecarily the other units.

I have also found heavy artillery works wonders.

One has to wonder what you're doing during this time period where your Brit opponent saves up roughly 700MP and 30FU and then plops it all down on one spot.

I learned a long time ago (back in my vCoH days) that a defensive, emplacement-based playstyle is inherently flawed due to the simple fact that emplacements don't move. If you can't move then you can't avoid artillery, and brace isn't enough to survive it because the enemy can just force you into a brace and then bring the real bombardment in once its on cooldown. There's also the fact that emplacements have terrible map control.

Even if you can't take out a Brit hardpoint (which isn't something I'm going into detail on here; already done in a prior post), you can just go around it. I do it all the time when I'm playing against OH or Brits and the first thing they do is rush a machine gun into a building near mid. It's fine if they want the building. I'll just go off and take the map while their MG sits around having a smoke all alone. Its the same principle with a heavily dug-in position.

So they have a BOFORs and a mortar pit side-by-side on some point? Can't push it off? Let them have their little dugout. Take your 700MP and go cap the rest of the map with your extra two/three units or build three fuel caches or something. Now you have map control or you have the VP or fuel or munitions advantage and next thing you know you've got a PzIV or two and the enemy is just now getting a fourth tommy because wtf he just dropped 700MP on a single point.

He somehow managed to hold both fuels with his BOFORs? No problem, munitions counters fuel. Mines everywhere, AT guns, weapon upgrades, panzershrecks, and he'll have a hard time pushing out anywhere when half of his pop cap is stuck at one spot. Drain his MP and bombard him from afar until you've got the resources to push him off his spot, or even just drive past it and blow up his base.

Personally, I go for the AEC every time as Brits. Because as nice as a BOFORs is it isn't going to save my tommies when a Luchs or a 222 is slaughtering them and their shit-tier PIATs on the other side of the map.

Is it really so hard to admit you made a mistake, Rappy?

On topic, I think you guys are really exaggerating the threat of British Emplacements. I play all factions more or less equally, and in my experience the BOFORs is as easy to kill as two avenues of assault.

Whenever I play against Brits I build a mortar early. I don't built an HMG against them because I know that half the time the tommies will just outshoot the HMG anyways. The instant they try to put down an emplacement, my mortar is already bombarding it and I've got grens moving in to kill the builders. You can't let them dig in.

But say they do manage to get a BOFORs up, what then? Attack ground with the mortar. Get an AT gun and attack ground with that, too. This will force them to brace their BOFORs, at which point I move in with infantry and push out their repairing units, perhaps garrison a few buildings with shrecks if I have them. Once the brace wears off, I have all the time I need to bombard it freely with mortar and AT. Bing Bang Boom, its dead.

What if they get a mortar up next to it? Well, once I get back from making myself a cup of tea (because how else did they have enough time to gather 700+MP to build a BOFORs and a mortar pit without sacrificing the map?) I just do the same thing, aiming for the enemy mortar. Maybe build a second mortar of my own. A tank also does the trick extremely well, because despite some claims, a BOFORs will not kill a tank on its own.

The key facet of the strategy though, is that you have to force them to brace. Once they brace, they're exposed for you to freely annihilate. The second that brace wears off they're just as vulnerable to bombardment and call-in arty as anything else in the game.

And that's why the BOFORs is fine as is.

I don't really think blobbing is a problem. In the end it's just concentration of force minus any tactics. You can always beat a blob using tactics as long as it isn't significantly larger than your force. If it is, then you lost the fight not to your enemy's tactical acuity but instead their economic and strategic superiority.

Just a couple days ago I wiped four rifle squads with a single minefield. There's no reason to lose to a blobber.

The 251 got a straight up nerf when they changed flamers because the new crit chances at lower health only applied to infantry flamers and only infantry flamers got larger AoE's. Vehicle flamers and flame artillery just got a straight up nerf to crit chance.

O rly?

I never really built it much before this patch so I have no frame of reference. All I know is that I build one almost every match now and let my men feast on the well done corpses of rebel scum.