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For replay review

This is the rematch in reference to another replay review post called "UKF USF vs OKW OKW part 1".

Again, I'm Zackman000 in this game. This game was not as long as the first one, so you can just start from the beginning. I'm wondering how we can counter what our opponents are doing and what mistakes I made as a brit player.

My teammate and I tried doing things completely different in hopes of countering our opponents, who did the same exact things, but we still the lost. The pak 43 88mm really got us good in this game.

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  UKF USF vs OKW OKW replay review part 2

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Link to part 1, the first game we had as a replay review post:
https://www.coh2.org/topic/90174/ukf-usf-vs-okw-okw-part-1

Hello, just had this game with my friend and we have no idea what we did wrong. Right after this game, we got matched against the same exact people, so we tried something completely different, yet we lost again. I will be posting the second game after I post this. I am Zackman000 in both games.

My friend pointed out that both games the pack 43 88mm was a huge part of the problem. In this game I did not realize the pak 43 88m was causing that much of an issue because my teammate killed it repeatedly, only to have our opponents rebuild it again. Not only that, they spammed a LOT of hmg bunkers across the map in both games.

This game is over an hour long, so please go a little over the halfway mark and start there. I felt like we had the early game to mid game well under our control, it when panthers, bunkers, and the pak 43 were being pumped out that we started struggling, and this was in the late game.

I'm wondering what we did wrong from a strategy perspective and also what I did wrong as a brit player in this situation.

Part 2 will be named "UKF USF vs OKW OKW part 2" which is the rematch where we tried something completely different.

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  UKF USF vs OKW OKW replay review part 1

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Link to the rematch game I mentioned, posted as another replay review:
https://www.coh2.org/topic/90176/ukf-usf-vs-okw-okw-part-2

I also want to point out that individual territory points are really not worth fighting for in the early game. Losing 3 models on a gren squad is 90 manpower, not even close to worth holding a standard territory point for 2 whole minutes at 6 fuel and 10 muni. You should be prioritizing damaging the enemy manpower and taking cutoffs/ high resources.

Pick engagements to fight the enemy where you have an advantage, don't get sucked into a fight when you can avoid it for something worth so little. Rear echelon and combat engineers are a good example. They are very weak in combat, not even worth the manpower to fight without support. Better to go find somewhere else to cap than lose manpower.

I see. What about for munitions or fuel points? Would you say it's worth delaying a munitions/fuel point decap at the cost of losing models?

Hello,
I know what manpower bleed is and some aspects of why it's important, but let's just start from the very basics and go from there:

My Issue

Whenever I'm playing a game, I always focus so heavily on munitions and fuel that sometimes I nearly forget to preserve individual units (in squads) and save my manpower, even in unwinnable battles just to buy time for more fuel/munitions. I have been trying to use mortars, light vehicles, and occasionally snipers to cause a lot of manpower bleed in a lot of games, but I just feel like I don't have the hang of it.

Questions

• What is manpower bleed?
  
• Why is manpower bleed and preserving manpower important?
  
• How important is preserving manpower compared to fuel/munitions throughout the game in your opinion?
  
• What are some good ways to cause manpower bleed to your opponent throughout the game?
  
• If I end up having a lot of excess manpower, is it better to buy more infantry squads or wait and save it for later? (vague, I know)
  
• Are mortars really worth getting for their cost if your opponent isn't using hmg or stationary structures? (having it sit around and shooting units for slow manpower bleed)
  
• What other advice or explanation(s) would you give concerning manpower in general or manpower bleed?
  

*This isn't really faction specific and general/vague.