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I generally skip Captain (though less so if I expect an OKW Luchs rush and want a stuart) and as Funkymonk mentioned there are also several doctrines that will give you an AT gun.

Often bazookas and mines will also suffice to keep the opponent light and early mediums at bay until you have your own tanks (which you are also likely to get sooner than the opponent when you have skipped captain).

I'll see if I can get around a review this week. As some have said it will be difficult if they manage to accrue critical mass and it is hard to predict someone hoing this direction. Conversely it is pretty much a hail-mary strategy which once broken will lead to a guaranteed loss for the guy. I think teching captain over leutenant is best against such a strategy, but again this teching usually happens before you know he is going for this approach. Also putting double zooked eschelons in buildings will make them take minimal damage, prevent them being suppressed, while dealing high damage to light vehicles.

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I see what you're saying and you make some good points as always, but at the same time I can't help to think that you might see this from the perspective of a top OKW player facing top level opponents?

I'll trust your assesment that the stuka might have lost Luvnest the game, but if that is the case than that must to a large part be due to the intense micro of Hans, who managed to intuitively reposistion all his team weapons correctly while simultaneously manage all other important engagements happening at the time.

I think that it would be fair to assume that this amound of control is waay beyond a ~200 player, and require a disproporionate amount of micro compared to the queed move-fire-pull-back action of the stuka.

I do agree that this strategy might pose a problem when facing medium armor rush from especially soviets as the command panther will come out a lot later than the t-34s.

I recently watched the intense langreskaya match between Helping Hans And Luvnest, where our favorite german brought the walking Stuka back into the 1v1 scene.

While he ended up losing the match, the stuka seemed to be doing a lot of good work and forced Hans to constantly micro his team weapons around.

This made me think of a strategy that I might want to experiment with, but as always I would like to get feedback from the salt of the earth that is this community

What I was thinking is to go both battlegroup and mechanized thus delaying the schwere and rely on at-guns and pumas for AT options for the first part of the game and preferably push out a stuka within the first 12-15 minutes.

I imagine that this would work well with the Spec Ops commander, as he gives access to both the call-in panther as well as the flares to spot where the opponent is camping his team weapons.

In general this might work better on maps with wooden buildings like kholodny so you could wipe some garrisoned mgs and obviously against somewhat support weapon heavy builds.

My idea is not much deeper than this in terms of general build order etc. and the ambition for this strat is not in the top league, but rather around the top 200.

So any feedback, advice or comments on the stuka in general and my suggestions specifically would as always be much appreciated

They are all pretty good commanders IMO, though the counterattack is a bit more spicy and off-meta. Currently I'm having tons of fun with the conscript support (by your suggestion I believe). It's really nice when I go for heavy t0 games because the conscripts simply get maximised utility, but the guards rifle is still a solid choice.

As an honourable mention I would like to suggest advanced warfare, as it gives a lot of conscript firepower, a surprisingly cost-effective strafe for only 90 munis and the t-34/85 which also performs admirably against the mobile defense meta.