Profile of JibberJabberJobber

250? Hello Mechanized Assault 2.0.

Or you mean making the 250 like the current bunker: unarmed and ungarrrisonable?

Seconded. Smoke Pots is a woefully underused ability because Relic stuck the far more boring Panzer Tactician in everything instead.

More Smoke Pots!

Agreed. Smoke pots have a lot of uses:
- Check if there's a countersniper on the field.
- Recon for tech and the location of enemy vehicles.
- Drop artillery if you have good coordination with your teammate.
- Save a retreating unit if dropped preemptively.
- Smoke out mg's.

Another option would be to allow the observation bunker to drop smoke bombs, like the UKF FHQ, for 50~ munitions.

Is FHT worth it anymore vs Brits? I used to get them due to no snares, but imo there's just too many units that can threaten it now. Sure there's no denying the shock value even after all its nerfs, but is it worth 90 munis against brits?

Snares are not a reason not to get a FHT IMO, Royal Engineers don't have oorah and the snare only has medium range. The real danger is the AEC. If you get the FHT first, you're temporarily extra vulnerable to the AEC with only fausts and hopefully a 222 to defend it. If the AEC outmaneuvers the fausts, the FHT and 222 are in serious danger.

You can get another 222 after that, but the Brit player can punish that overinvestment in light vehicles by getting a Valentine, which wouldn't be far off. I'd recommend a pak instead.

If you're able to make use of the FHT while being able to fend off the AEC and stay prepared for a second AEC or Valentine, I'd say it's definitely worth it. There's more risk involved, but the reward is better map control and possibly a wipe or two.

And.... what's exactly wrong with 280 mp mainline inf(later on with additional 35 fuel investment on top of that 280) beating 250 mp mainline inf and how it should be any other way?

- I never said that the unbolstered tommy vs volk matchup should be any different. 280 manpower infantry should win against 250 manpower infantry. The problem is that UKF can pay 35 fuel to completely dominate every engagement. It would be like paying 35 fuel as OKW to get STG's on all your volks. Yes, you've-paid-for-it, but your opponent has no proper answer to it, that early in the game

- The fuel cost for going both AEC and bolster costs 120 fuel (detracting starting fuel), while the fuel cost for going Luchs is 115 fuel (detracting starting fuel). It's almost like UKF is intended to go early bolster, because it barely delays tech.

If your volks are losing to tommies, you have not built enough volks.

You can say that, but bolstered Tommies are much more cost efficient than Volks, you will lose the attrition game hard. The only option is to make a big volk deathblob or lose every engagement.

Also, 221 is a thing now, tommies are no answer to that, bolster or not.

The 221 has barely any armor and is easily beaten by a (vickered) UC and scared away by two Tommies. It's not like the fht that has enough impact to win a game. The actual meta is JLI (which trade well with Tommies), with leigs in the back (more popular in 2v2) or spec ops to crutch on light vehicle spam, while stalling for command panther. Both rely on minimizing the effectiveness of bolstered Tommies, which is impossible to do outside of abusing OKW cheese to the max.

OKW as usual fares better vs allied blobs because u can kinda blob decently well with volks against rifle blobs and sometimes penal blobs, but u can only delay a 5man section blob, not that the cheaper volks should have a chance against a bolstered blob.

Ost has no counters. The mg gunner just gets instagibbed by a blob and even if u manage to suppress one squad, that squad takes little damage due to 0.8 RA and can sit there all day till another squad comes to flank. U can't protect mgs with grens when the section guns down the mg crew faster than the grens can force back the section. The supressed section then unsupresses then the 2 somewhat less healthy sections stop the remaining gren squad while the mg has already fallen back to base. A sound defense shattered easily.

It's Ostheer that has the counters against UKF, while OKW has to suffer. Ostheer has all the right answers against UKF:

1. Osttruppen -> Can trade favorably with Tommies (even if bolstered).
2. Sniper -> Bleeds Tommies, UKF will give away countersniper if he has no bolster before minute 5.
3. 251 -> 1 minute timeframe to push back before AEC.
4. 222 -> Comes early enough to prevent AEC from dominating you, can win against AEC if spammed.
5. Tellers -> Can be spammed everywhere if you went Osttruppen, best bet against Valentine.
6. Ost P4 -> Comes early, even if you made multiple light vehicles.

Add an MG42 and a Pak40 and you're pretty much set.

OKW has it far harder.