Profile of Strummingbird

Definitely well deserved and well overdue. Congrats!

From what I can tell as an inexperienced 2v2 player, 2v2 boils down to this:

Allies: Protect ISU so it wins the infantry war

Axis: Kill ISU so your superior close-combat tanks/infantry/support weapons win the infantry war

And because the ISU is near impossible to kill if it's covered by mines/the other player, it comes down to jagdtiger vs ISU just like the good old elefant vs ISU. Basically these two units appear to operate out of the conventional counter system of antitank infantry and antitank guns, flanking with smaller tanks, mining to prevent aggression (b/c you can sit back in one spot and not move while still exerting presence with the ISU/Jagd), because of extreme range and survivability.

So you need the Jagd to kill the ISU, and you need the ISU to win the game for the Allies since they cannot go toe to toe with axis units (barring cases where double soviets pick good lategame doctrines while double ostheer pick fringe doctrines without Tigers).

King Tiger is part of the root of the problem, being inordinately difficult for the allies to kill OR outdamage without ISU (or OP47)... which drives the allies to using the ISU in the first place, leading to the jagdtiger. the elefant isn't really relevant, mainly because the jagdtiger is so good, and also because the range nerf hit it as a singlepurpose unit harder than it did the ISU.

in a way, you could say something similar about the early game:

Allies: Protect snipers so they win the infantry war

Axis: Kill snipers so your superior infantry/support weapons win the infantry war

but of course light vehicles, teching, and other factors break this clean formula so it isn't as clear-cut as the ISU/Jagd meta.


So anyway, that's just my understanding of 2v2 currently, whether it be right or wrong.

100 ammo is a lot, however, much more value than 70 manpower, and Storms are doctrinal. Plus, Storms have two upgrade paths so its not like MP44s are the only possible option.

Every Pgren costs 9MP more than every stormtrooper to reinforce iirc, which would add up in the long run (Munitions are sunk once for the squad and never again whereas manpower becomes increasingly valuable as games drag on). reinforcing a 1 man Pgren squad to full squad size 20 times would cost 540MP more than doing the same for an equivalent storm squad.

Pgrens did a huge job at that moment... But I didn't saw when their building destroyed...

yeah it showed them carrying the dropped BAR so I didn't realized until too late they also had shrecks. I also forgot to trigger the demo which killed them until after the battle was over :/

Who doesnt veto Stalingrad as Axis?

I don't with OKW, because STG Obers + King Tiger

Mechanized Groups

M20 arrives 4-6 minutes into the game, about 1 1/2 CPs earlier than a mech group I think.