Profile of Goldeneale

Only 1 gren, good luck fausting something actually ...
With which unit are you taking map control, lonely gren or the pio ?

Pios and Grens aren't the only units that can cap yknow. I often cap the frontline with HMGs initially and backcap with mortar and Pios.

One Faust is all it takes, and the Ostruppen help too.

That doctrine sounds like heaven.

Ostheer players normally always go heavy T1 because you need to establish decent map control in order to stay in the game. Ostheer squads also drain your MP pretty heavily on the reinforcement costs so you tend to be really skint on MP early in the game making the 320 MP Pak a hard to achieve goal.

A smart player won't let you get in faust range, relying on that for countering an M5 or T-70 is laughable.

My usual build order goes:
1. MG42 X2
2. Gren
3. Mortar against SU, Sniper against USF
4. Hazy here, mostly floating MP as I wait for T2. I often tend to build a bunker or two during this period, though if my enemy has mortars I'll just get another Gren.
5. T2
6. Halftrack
7. Pgren and AT Gun, order depending on how the match is going.
8. I like to go Mobile Defense, so now I get Ostruppen to harass the shit out of the map.
9. T3
10. Ostwind
11. PzIV

Map control is rarely a problem, especially with the HT to ferry units around, as long as my central position is well placed. Once the Ostruppen come in things get even easier. I often face hordes of units coming from multiple directions, all bigger than my army, but there's nothing a good prepared position can't beat.

And if a T-70 isn't close enough to faust, then it isn't close enough to dodge my AT either.

Uh, no. The puppchen/puma/JPIV do not make the existence of shreks nill. Volks are only good because of the shrek they carry; why is this shrek so valuable? Because it gives OKW a way to make up for the fact they will always have less vehicles than the enemy will. Decent shrek play is the hallmark of any good OKW player.

Grens need the LMG42 because Ostheer has no elite infantry to compare to Soviet elite infantry. If grens lacked the LMG42 they wouldn't be able to stay on the field and remain useful after shocks and guards hit the field. The LMG42 is very fundamental to the way the infantry dynamic of Ostheer works.

So concluding from those 2 facts; the 2 most basic Axis infantry would cease to be useful without the LMG42 and Shrek package thus the removal of said upgrades would be massive blow to each faction were as Soviets would NOT be worse off if the demo charge was limited to a timer based one like the Para (which is useful) or just limited to being put on buildings and bridges.

Soviets now have a good MG that can do AoE suppression, both Guards and Shocks are useful, the M5 rips infantry apart. Soviets have absolutely 0 issues with Axis infantry late game without the demo charge.

Again: The democharge punishes smart players who flank and spread squads out around the map to establish map control. The demo charge encourages blobbing because it forces a player to put all there important infantry with 1 sweeper squad.

I dunno, I rarely get more than one LMG42 per match. I'd much rather have a minefield or a bunker. There's no need for DPS when your enemy is suppressed or can barely move for fear of detonation.

As for OKW, I usually go fortifications and build no efields and bunkers and use the rak for my AT. I love that little gun.

I usually play Allies, and whenever I have demos at my disposal I use them freely. I put one on my fuel, one on enemy fuel if I can, and will often also put one on a perceived future chokepoint.

Because of this, whenever I play Axis I'm always very careful about demos.

If there's any possibility that my opponent ever had any unit with "Engineer" in the name around a point, I make sure to position my capping squad at the edge, with just one man inside the circle. If there's a demo there, then I lose one man at most. My enemy has then made a poor investment.

If I ever see my enemy laying any sort of explosive, or come across a mine or a demo, then I mark him as "clever" and get sweepers. I keep my units spaced out at all times. In a pinch, a mortar can serve as a makeshift sweeper.

For some reason I never face anyone that puts demos on buildings. Presumably this is because they want to preserve the building for their own use too, but I think that a demo can do a lot of damage on some maps where buildings control important areas. At the same time, I would never put a squad in a building I had set a demo on, as the risk of premature detonation from a mortar or grenade is too high. Laying a demo on a building is very scorched-earth, and if the building's in your control you probably want to use it, without having the constant fear of a stray mortar hitting a demo and blowing it all down.

At the end of the day, I rarely have issues with demos. Sometimes they'll catch me if I underestimate my opponent's stupidity, like when he lays a demo on the same point twice even though I neutralized it with no casualties the first time. I figure at that point that he won't risk the investment again, but sometimes they miraculously do.

Enemy stupidity has cost me more games than their intelligence. Or is there a difference between the two?

Effective demo play requires forethought and skill, unless your enemy is the kind of idiot that moves four squads per click and has lone squads with queued up cap orders touring the map. But then in those cases, an S-mine field is far more effective, significantly cheaper, and even automatic. I remember occasions when I killed three or more conscript squads with one minefield, and one recently where I killed two shocks and a T-34.

The demo charge is fine where it is. This is one of those situations where I'd say it's the player that's the issue, not the game.

Also, Goliath is probably gonna be rolling in soon, and if its anything like vCoH then it'll be even better than a demo.

>inb4 nerf goliath threads