Profile of rumartinez89

Played a couple games using this commander with T1 back tech and it is working fairly well, my main issue is I am used to skipping LV so i have a hard time not calling in Airborne when I can save for T70 to rush it out. I even had a game against some guy named Peanut Pouya who shitted on me before and I had him on the ropes but my micro got the best of me.

Ost enemy went with mg skip gren build into PG, I went with engi/clown car/penal x3.
Early game kind of goes my way but I make a PTRS penal expecting him to make a scout car but he does a PG rush so I am left AI short.
He slowly starts to push me back with his INF army- 3 Gren/2 PG/1 Jaeger. He eventually upgrades both with Shreks.
I get my T70 out, I dont get any wipes but I do decent health damage. He plays really defensive with his infantry which allows me to get most of map.
His P4 hits the field close to when my AT gun does so I am prepared, he did a T2 skip which becomes important later.
He is beating me pretty well but never delivers knock out blow, I eventually get KV2 out which keeps me in game since he retreats on sight.
He hits me with arty barrage, doesn't do too much damage but have to try not to blob. I eventually get T34 out and he gets a Panther
He wipes 2 of my Penal squads which is cool I guess.
Game is going his way but that changes pretty soon, I make him pay for not being aggressive.
I wipe 2 grens back to back, kill his panther while he is having a pathing or brain fart, and kill his P4. I also dive my T34 to kill his arty and lose it to shrek blob.
Game has swung heavily my way with point starting to even up if not go my way. However, it gets moar betta.
He catches my T34 with his shrek blob almost kills it but doesn't get last volley off for what ever reason. However both squads are really low health and model.
I chase them down on retreat with KV8 and wipe both while really beating up his other infantry. Game is pretty much over at this point. He plays until the end but I now have superior inf, tanks and AT.

GG

The fear propoganda does help out a lot when you can't spare infantry to defend a side. Since he played very mobile I didn't need to save for bombing run so I could be very spammy with propoganda. Also KV8 defended by AT guns has made me fall in love with this tank again. I hated it with my NKVD strat since Penals alone cant really protect it but AT guns let you fall back safely.

This guy is a better sport than me, I would have quit with how many squad wipes. He stabilized when he made his tanks but it didnt last long.

Started with engi clown car, harassed and pulled back a few times for repairs. He pushed my fuel but must not have been paying attention got 2 VG wipes and then chased down his Kubel.
Since he is lacking in inf, i decide to skip mg and make SMG and PTRS squad. He pushes me back with his Luchs which I cant get out of position.
He makes a Jaeger squad which is helping him play keep away from my car but he takes damage and gets on a retreat path straight to my SMG penals, another wipe.
I decide to skip LV since T70 isn't really gonna help much against his non existent infantry and will take to long to kill luchs, make LMG guards to keep bleed and pressure up.
Finally get out T34, he was capping close to my base, caught lone VG late retreat, another wipe.
I get passive since I now have 2 T34 and pretty much push him back whenever, allows him to build up his tanks and raks.
To bait him I attack far left side of map over and over and he finally pushes back with both P4J which allows me to snare 1 but I do lose PTRS penal in process. I send all 4 T34, kill the snared tank but his overwatch pushes me back and my tanks are in bad shape. He chases but runs over mine and I get him with a stolen rak.
Once more it looks bleak for him but he refuses to give up, got to respect that but it is looking tough. I send infantry out while rebuilding my tank blob, waiting for him to send his raks to opposite side so I can rush his Schwerer. I finally catch him, destroy his building and pretty much force him to go KT.
I randomly catch his Ober by itself and wipe it with my 4 tank blob.
I get my blob up to 6 tanks and attack his base, destroy Battlegroupe but lose tank in the process.
He finally gets his KT out so I got to deal with that, he keeps it pretty much in the center of the map so I attack the right side of the map and force him to use Sector assault. I disengage, go back to base to repair and attempt to catch his KT out of position with out having to worry about planes. I get his KT with my Camo Rak and rush all my tanks at him and get the kill. From this point on, he attempts to hold on to VP points while I bleed him to the end.
GG

I rpobably could have eneded the game a lot sooner by just making a Katy but I got tunnel vision and I was trading pretty well with them.

The Stg upgrade on Volks is (balance wise) completely fine. You pay 60 muni for good close and medium range dmg increase and therefore a nice powerspike.

Whats bad about Volks is their awful "target size" with 0,77 at max vet, which translates into 520 effective HP. Compare this to Rifles 625, Cons 676 (pre upgrade) or Penals 623. On top of that they only get x1,3 accuracy with vet while having no option to get powerful lategame weaponery like dual bars or dual brens to compensate for this. But i think the bleeding part is way worse than having supbar dmg. At the end of the day Cons get 5,38 hp per manpower (reinforce), Rifle 4,46 and Penals/Volks 4,16.

I dont think it would harm balance much if Volks get a little boost on lvl 5, healing on 4 and remove the useless vision shit. But i guess there is no room for that after 3 years of putting Grens and Cons into the prime position they are now .

Not sure what you can do without messing with balance. When compared to Penals, you are not locked into a specific tech early, similar reinforce and similar HP since the increase is due to the extra man. Personally I think they should get Sprint not Pfussi due to it synergizing with both MP40 upgrade and stg upgrade.

I want to say from mid-game on this guy gets shitted on not really even a good game on his part. I am posting it because the dude started talking shit from the start of the game and it felt so good slapping him around. Not sure why people have to be so toxic. I had a couple wipes with SMG Penal, wiped 2 falls with mines, couple of Sturm wipes.

Started game with engi/clown car as every player I face always rushes their sturm for the cutoff. He didn't this game so I try and push him off east muni/VP, messed up and was caught between 2 Sturm and 1 VG, used penal squad to slow him down while I make my getaway to other engi to try and repair quickly. He caught me with his kubel and got the kill, he then proceeds to start calling me a noob ez game. I am unimpressed with his micro so I decide to make another car to catch him off guard. I chase down his kubel get the kill and scare off his east side infantry so I start capping and take his cutoff.
I see a lack of infantry so I am assuming either Flak or Falls, I switch out flamer for SMG penal and rush his Sturm and VG. I was hoping to catch him unaware but he was paying attention enough to get the kill almost got a wipe but he retreated in time. I proceed to mine the hell out of southern VP/muni/ lower entrance while pushing my SMG Penal behind shrub outside his entrance. I force a VG retreat and then he attempts to blob with VG/Strum and MG. I had his MG dead to rights but I didn't have enough muni for satchel so I had to retreat.
I then continue to harrass west/north side of map with a couple decaps, wipe a VG squad with SMG and catch him making his Schwerer which he has to pause or risk getting a satchel. After some back and forth he finally get his Schwerer down but it is in a horrible spot. I literally come up the rear and satchel it but only have 1 Penal(SMG) there so can't take it out. I force a low model Falls to retreat right into my Penals and get another wipe, almost get his Sturm also but I accidently issued attack command so they got demolished by the Schwerer when it finally gets sight. At other VP, his Fall is getting beat up so he retreats right into mine I just finished placing and another wipe.
From this point on the game is me getting more LMG guards and building up T34 supply. I eventually get 5 rush him but his panther gets away with the luckiest rear armor bounce I have ever seen. I lose 3 tanks but I kill a Rak, MG bunker, his Schwerer and an Inf unit or MG can't remember. I push up with infantry to stop any potential build back, kill a MG and another Falls. Game is over but he continues on until VP hits 0. GG

Not really a technical game, I ended up making 3 penals and 3 Airbournes due to early game circumstances which allowed me to bully his infantry into submission. Didn't make my SMG penals so I felt a little dirty.

Started with engi/clown car, capped in both directions in case I ran into him at gas.
We fight back and forth, he makes shrek to push my car back and I make flamer for chase down wipes.
He gets one of my cutoffs with 2 VG, I fight back with 2 Penals while Flamer car fights his other VG.
He retreats late and I get 2 early VG wipes, I am floating MP but low on muni so I decide to save muni for PTRS and make Airbourne squads.

At this point I haven't seen much infantry from him so I am expecting a FLAK, so I get PTRS car ready and wait for him to mess up.
I make another Airbourne squad to stall him from stealing left side gas and send my army in that direction so he will counter with flak, I hold onto PTRS car. I hear an engine through fog of war, rush in as soon as I see it and get the kill.

Game is in my hands, got good MP and decide to make 3rd Airbourne, 1 is going to have LMG other 2 with SMG for camo and smoke since he has made JLI and MG. I think he expects a T70, so he makes 2 raks, which I catch out of position and destroy with PTRS chip damage and satchel. I pretty much decide to stall for T34 and just keep bullying him with numbers.

I push here and there with T34 and I decide to bait him, I send T34 "alone" to push MG protecting left VP while sending 2 penal and guard squad around forest to try and catch anything out of position. His mg suppresses me but I find what I am looking for. 2 raks start shooting at my T34, I think he got tunnel vision since he didn't see satchel until to late. Got double wipe and capture.

He makes JP4 but game is heavily in my favor, any time something goes his way I get him back harder. BUT, RNGesus tries to step in, I rush his JP4, ram it, at strafe it and get behind it with remaining T34. I think my shooter was drinking Vodka, hit everything but the tank and lose it. I also forgot to move my raks forward early enough to clean up so his JP4 gets away with sliver of health. I did manage to wipe an Ober and steal LMG so not all bad I guess.

I am not really worried since his JP4 is useless until I make another tank and I have raks in case he decides to get frisky.

From here on out he pushes, I slap him back into place and he attacks else where. I remake T34's and pretty much bleed him out. He never makes another deep push due to lack of Infantry despite having JP4 and now P4J. GG



Watching the replay, he had enough to call in P4J earlier but he didn't and made mechanized instead. I think that really put him behind since his P4J wiped a Guard squad and caused good bleed in general.
Him going for 2 raks in anticipation of T70 screwed him, losing 3 raks with 2 getting captured was a back breaker.
SMG Guards are nice but really muni intensive despite being free, to get in best position the suppress strafe is what 45muni and grenade to try and get a wipe is another 35. They should have just kept tactical assault.
I never made Dshka since I already outnumbered him, didnt really want something to slow me down.