Profile of ShadowLinkX37

Unfortunate I'm going to remove heavy cav it seems. I've always found the pershing very useful but I was a major user of the double tap, which is now gone. I do love E8 spam though since those tanks are IMO OP for their fuel investment. Flares I love as well as fireup, just don't like the debuff of fireup. WP barrage I havn't been able to find extremely useful in 1v1, but I may try it eventually to cover advance on schwer HQs or pak walls as suggested.

Persoanlly I don't see how buffing its armor would help the situation at all. TDs would still pen semi consistantly, and the KT frontal armor was hardly an issue in the first place. If the KT doesn't hit anything it'll just be a worthless resource sink, aka the IS2.

But also personally the only issue I saw with the KT was 1. semi-doctrinal, cause you at least had to pick a doctrine, but 2. it would gib 5-6 man squads with its alpha strike from fog if they were clumped. TDs could deal with the KT pre patch and they still can post patch, now it just doesn't hit anything cause scatter went up by 200%. Balance team "minor tweaks" at its finest.

If you get north, which is the standard axis spawn tourney style, you're basically dead since the northern cutoff is far more punishing than the southern one. But I'd keep firestorm doc in my loadout just for maps like this. Flamer Spios are monsters.

Usually I open with 3x rifles -> LT -> 50cal. Sometimes 4 rifles if I lack the fuel due to poor earlygame, be that map dependant or sloppy play. I choose LT usually due to the 50 cal which can help repel pushes and support pushes well. I try to avoid light play and go for medium rushes, but if I do get a light vehicle it is the m20 hands down. Lethal up close and can plant lethal immobilizing mines.

My question is what do I buy midgame. This is aimed at Dave primarily since he is one of the best USF players. I find all allies have "medicore" indirect when trying to dislodge ostheer mortars. And on maps that heavily favor ostheer cough* faymonville approach cough* its almost impossible to attack them let alone wipe. I find the 81mm mortar is taking hits before it can deal them due to shorter range, and the pak howitzer seems inconsistant. Sometimes it will brutalize squads it hits, other times it won't land a hit for 5 shots. And do you use the 3 shot barrage? Or just the auto attack? That question is for the pak howitzer but I'd like an answer for the mortar as well.

Lategame I find the HE sherman coupled with jacksons is amazing, up until you get to about 3-4 mediums where your micro becomes over taxed. Leading to missplays and accidental retreats. Especially on decrewed vehicles which can be really bad.

I want to know how to incorporate a commander as well. I try airborne because it'll give me an AT gun which is good for flaktrack meta and possible 222 defense for my m20. Paras feel semi squishy though, and I'm not really sure how to use pathfinders.

Thanks in advance.

Best option is just switch the Tiger and panther.