Profile of ZombiFrancis

Visually I think it looks great. Although I wonder how the passages would function as open cover... that's a ton of yellow cover spliced on over red cover.

The terrain doesn't quite look like yellow cover. Although I don't know if there are equivalent splats that don't make yellow cover.

But visually it looks great.

I think it's worth noting that you can't really move from cover to cover under mortar fire auto attack.

Auto attacking mortars chase units wherever they go in sight and range. It's not like when a unit is attacked by a mortar they are always being barraged. Moving from a mortar shell over to cover doesn't do squat. UKF mortars chase grens around like nobodies business as long as they have sight.

I've constantly watched grens moving from cover when a mortar shell hits, then watched a trail of mortar blasts follow the grens to their new point of cover.

Rinse and repeat.

M4c Shermans are such a lategame unit. Soviets are capable of getting a ton of fuel/map control early on that I've been finding it way easier to rush T4 and get T34s of either variety well before the CPs for M4C Shermans.

It's usually T34/85s because of Guard Motor though. I just haven't found the Lend Lease commander to synergize as well. I rarely need DSHk with Penals running around, at least against ostheer. Conscript repair's usefulness is kind of diminished unless I went T2.

Although I did get to use the M5 halftrack to get guards to a clutch VP in a game.

How can I counter ostheer sniper when he have 222 guarding my m20 and will have 2 paks once I get sherman ?

I feel like you're glossing over an entire games worth of decisions and engagements with that question. But I agree with you in the sense that the 222 has been balanced around no-one ever using the M20. I think the real issue though is with the 222, not the sniper or the M20. Making the M20 super capable of killing snipers won't help overall if it's still a throw against 222s. In fact, it just makes the 222 even more of a necessity for Ostheer.

Also m15 isn´t all that good on the move right now so I don´t know how can I counter his sniper + 222 combo.

Rifles, mortars, weapon rack. You're saying 'sniper + 222 combo' but I feel like there are MGs at work here. Otherwise I don't know how you're not dominating the map with rifles. You've got to keep in mind that USF T0 can handle anything Ostheer T0-T2 can field.

I think your mistake is going for LT tier. I think your opponents know you are testing LT tier and are adjusting their strategy accordingly. LT just doesn't offer enough to what USF needs. Again: USF T0 can handle anything Ostheer T0-T2 can field.

I'll note that while the USF mortar may now have shorter range, as a result its also more of a lure for the 222 and sniper to try and focus fire. Bait that 222 + sniper combo into your superior infantry forces. If the ostheer also has a mortar to counter your mortar, your opponent has no infantry.

But I agree that the 222 and the sniper are probably the two hardest units for USF T0 to handle. It would be nice for the M20 to be able to fill this role, but the current design of the 222 really doesn't account for the existence of non-Stuart vehicles from USF.

Ultimately: Take advantage of the fact that the 222 takes damage from small arms fire and take note that it's currently designed to hard counter light vehicles. (It's a bigger fuel investment too. You could probably tech nades safely without throwing off your fuel advantage.) The most effective usage of the LT tier in my experience has always been the M20 mine.

Even in vcoh USA had jeep whitch sucked against infantry, yet was able to kill the sniper with blink of your eye.

A sniper in cover could stand in front of a jeep, point blank, for a long arse time.

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Jeeps (and motorbikes) revealed cloaked units. That was their function. Then pretty much any other unit shot the revealed sniper.

Guards have always been about their PTRS. The only times I've seen them actually be strong AI units is when they have no DP-28s and they've dropped all their PTRS. (No DP-28s so they can fire on the move. LMGs are mostly defensive weapons unless used en masse.)

For some reason I remember Penals having flamers and 3x PPSh and it was removed because it was considered way too powerful. I think that was combined with their old vet though.