Profile of rumartinez89

Wasn't my best game, I had a few highlights early like sniper vs sniper kill, 221 PTRS kill and early brumbar finished off with PTRS satchel. Allies played well and I took on more of a support role with arty, fear propaganda and chased away pushes with SMG airborne and SU85.

Axis did great job of rushing tanks and arty. Double Walking stuka paid off early for them while P4 kept it safe until they got Panthers out. OKW played light with units to rush out KT with commander. IT really messed us up until around the 40 min mark it rushed in to kill my KV8. Big mistake, although it got the kill we rushed it and killed it. Game changed drastically as it opened up several pushes from us that really punished their lack of infantry.

GG

I am writing this as I watch. I apologize as I only play okw for compstomp.

Early on you went Sturm, VG, Strum. IF you are gonna go 2x sturm I would get them asap and push. You kept hesitating back and forth early which caused you to take extra health damage without accomplishing anything.
The VG was just standing around for a bit before you told it to build sandbags. That delayed extra helped to your sturmpio.

Next you went for the 221, I like the choice as brit had no snare for a bit. However you again played scared, you should have been in their face pushing the infantry around out of cover while your units come in and do damage. Since you have 2 sturms repairs are not a big deal so use the fact that LV dont bleed.

Once brit player got mortar pit/engineers I felt you should have made destroying it or damaging it your priority. Any time spent repairing it means more time for your 221 to do damage and not worry about snares.

At this point you only have 4 units going on 5 with MG and are starting to hoard MP. You could have made another VG earlier, upgraded 221 to 223 or made some leigs. You upgraded your battlegroupe but did not utilize any of the units maybe next time rush the 221 upgrade if it doesn't have tech requirement.

Your next VG and Leig don't show up until 10 min mark, that is a lot of pressure you missed out on applying.

I like your Schwerzer placement as it would allow some more agressive Leig play, however you kept you Leig at max range which allowed mortar pit time to get upgraded and ability to start to attack your HQ building.

Later on your micro takes a nose dive, you start to use one unit at a time and you never seem to branch out and attack the left mortar pit. Your entire army was just sitting in base, best way to improve this is to play 1v1. No other way around it since it will also improve your unit and tech timing.

One last piece of advice, you got the commander upgrade on your tank and had to take on a heavy tank. The extra sight gives you time to pop on HEAT shells, you should have been spamming them instead of using the commander arty. The commander arty could have instead been used to kill a mortar pit along with an inciendary nade.

GG.

Wouldn’t giving rifleman smoke back fix pretty much every issue. They would no longer be as MP starved, less dependent on Bars(can use muni on made wipes instead) and allow more synergy with elites. Most of the USF gimmicks have been toned down so it shouldn’t be to big an issue

At 40 min mark OKW made push with 2 Panthers, pushed with my 2 SU85 KV1 and T34. Got them both along with KT, Strumtiger and brumbar.

This is one of those games, I got the weak side so my SU85 were holding off 2 Panthers and 2 KT, ended up with almost 100k worth of damage. Allies put in work with Katy and my Howi forced bad choice described above. Mines win games.

There is no issue with pioneers.

They are decent at the beginning, but fall flat on their face quickly. Spamming them is not viable, nor is even building a second one in the early game unless you're trying some odd double MG/double pio stall for PGrens.
In a normal build, you'll pay for it once LVs arrive until the mid game where you can finally use the increased repairs for your medium tank.

This overall sounds like a fair trade off to me, let them have their chance to shine.

I am actually seeing that strat quite often in 3v3. Double Pio/2 MG/PG into halftrack, can be quite powerful early on against CONS/RIFLES/IS. IF they get your fuel cutoff LV play becomes irrelevant. It is fun to play against if slightly frustrating due to PG powerspike but it is better than seeing the same thing every game.