Start match with Engi/clown car/3 penal. He rushed my gas with Sturm and volks then decap. I fought back with 1 engi and clown car until penal came and I forced retreat. Other engi went around to decap gas so he wouldn't steam roll me. Put 1 engi in clown car rushed his gas which he was attempting to cap with Kubel, got the kill and ran out of there before his 2nd kubel got me. At this point I have infantry advantage and I saw he went mechanized. Since my clown car was still alive went for PTRS and caught him out of position.
Any advantage in early gas is now gone, I get my T70 out since he decided to make falls, he got some wipes I got some wipes but I had more map and felt I was outplaying him. Decided to make Katy 1st since he seemed to be trying to spam Rak and Falls. Didn't get many kills but forced retreats and did some damage. Eventually I decide to push his badly positioned Schwerer with 2 satchels, At strafe which really didn't do much and Katy which finally destroyed it.
At this point, he has to go KT so I get 3 T34 and hope I can catch him. His KT wipes 2 squads and I guess he felt in control so he pushed across middle of map with tank and infantry. Katy wiped out 2 Falls squad and damaged another squad. I rushed him with 3 T34, lost them all and his KT survived with maybe quarter life or less. Shit is not looking good however I was upgrading another Penal with PTRS just in case and rushed straight to his mechanized building and I found him. I guess he forgot I had AT Strafe called it in and got the kill. Momentum swings my way again.
Now game is again heavily in my favor due to him trying to save MP so he isn't fully reinforcing his squads so I keep punishing him. He obviously is trying to save for KT so I hide my Penal behind sightblocker and wait for the magic to happen. Since he is low on points now he gets desperate and I snare his KT and kill it of with stolen Rak and T34.
Thoguhts:
First KT got great RNG roll, my tanks hit the ground 2-3 times. How the hell do you miss that thing. 2nd one RNG went my way my T34 penetrated at point blank when I needed it to.
He picked the best flanking tank. Higher health them M4C, versatile and with pretty good penetration for a medium. Seems like it was calculated decision. Personally I have no idea what commander could have done better job. Maybe Urban with zook rangers and smoke/sprint? Still imo ST won the game.
Also couple commets behind I posted a cast of Jibber vs top 50 OKW and in that match ST got 80 kills.
I must've missed that one, I will check it out.
Back to the E8, I thought it was supposed to be used more as a brawler not flanker. He never really flanked with it due to how cumbersome pathfinding is and the map itself has a lot of shotblockers that seem indestructible. Flanking in this game was not really an option, the announcers even said to start the match it would be a bad choice. Like I originally said, he had nothing to force Kimbo to push instead of play defensively with Sturm. That is what make is so OP, Kimbo played horribly with Sturm compared to Inca in the beggining however Inca's supposed flanking tank could not push due to Rak/potential snare/map design. Even when he did catch him he had to reverse since it has similar range. Watching him play, I think Inca would have demolished him with Cali and Jackson, the Sturm would have been forced to push or risk wipe after wipe from Cali barrage.
Edit: Does E8 have heavy crush? If not the bulldozer sherman would have done better moving back and forth.
Edit2: Just saw parts of the game skipped around. Holy Shit, how can it be Ok that Sturmtiger is available before Heavies are. Aside from being fairly cheap for what you get, it should at least come at CP10. It does not fear AT guns.
I agree its to strong but that last battle in no way makes a good case. Inca picked Rifle company, right when he picked that at around 11-12 minutes I knew he was gonna lose. Most of that company is made redundant by the Sturmtiger and he has nothing to force the enemy to him. I feel like that game highlighted how mediocre the E8 and Rifle company is.
Mines/fighting position is useless against sturmtiger since it can destroy one easily and mines wont be placed on his side late game due to fear of wipes. Never made halftrack which shows how pointless it is and The E8 has to get within range of Sturm to fight, and for the people who say use focus gunnery he didn't use it from what I saw.
Speaking about the Sturm it looks like if it had to stay still to reload this game would have been over pretty quickly. Inca seemed to be vastly better in that last game.
The Pershing and Panther are almost identical in tank vs tank combat yet you're losing all the time lol.
IS2 has 340 armour and 1080 health, which is a huge defensive advantage over the Panther.
You are truly one of the worst players to ever play this game if you are consistently losing your heavy tanks in 1vs1 battles with Panthers.
Most importantly, good players use heavy tanks to bleed enemy infantry and as spearheads for their pushes - no one builds the IS2 to try to chase and counter enemy Panthers. That's what tank destroyers and AT guns are for. Please go back to the tutorial first.
I get what your saying but you can use IS2 and KV2 as a spearhead due to armor and AOE damage. What is the purpose of the Pershing? Take a hit or 2, reverse to RE and get repaired. At least it can run to them quickly while enemy gets VET for each hit. Its ability is a guaranteed hit that take a while to fire. Literally the antithesis to what the tanks strength is being sold as.
For the record I think IS2 and KV2 are fine, I just find the Pershing underwhelming for cost. Reducing the cost is probably the easiest fix or giving it a little oomph so that it has a place.
Went with engi/clown car/penal x3. Early engi for capping and wanted clown car as early as possible to try and decap quickly. Once he saw my car he sent his entire force for it. He chased me down with 3 volks and sturm, he killed a engi squad and clown car but he was bled pretty bad so he retreated everything. Also made a rak which worked in my favor.
Got to CP2 pretty quickly so decided to make a Dshka and a smg penal since I havent used it in a while. I hid it behind trees and baited his sturm with injured penal squad. Got the wipe while he attempted to flank with his volks, got them suppressed and forced another retreat. Threw my Dshka in middle house so it could operate on its own. He made flaktrak to counter and tried to push my cutoff. My T70 and penal forced low health retreat, had a penal in retreat path to get the wipe while he attacked Dshka in building. I guess he didn't realize Dshka could do heavy damage without AT rounds to Flaktrak.
GG
Thoughts:
Probably not best map for SMG unit since map is fairly open but missed using my SMG Penals. I have been using Guards with Lmg more since it seems to take advantage of their durability better.
It's not 100%, but 1.15 (1.61 with vet). AFAIK it multiplies by target's RA and after it you get chance of hit.
So lets say a unit has RA of .7 and vetted JLI shoot at it has 112% accuracy? That is crazy, even behind cover it would be 101%.
My biggest issue with Sturm is the moving while reloading, it allows player to be fairly aggressive with unit due to loss of drawbacks it once had. I haven't really played team games in a while due to toxic players but in 1v1 it does seem fairly easy to deal with once you know it is built.
Maybe give it heavy tank pricing so it is a lot harder to replace and field with other costly units.
I feel the biggest issue with Pershing is the focus on mobility. Nothing can really reduce Tiger ROF, IS2 armor, or KV2 deflection damage. However mobility is easily removed with AT snare. I think the Pershing could be more aggressive if snare didn't work until 60-70% health. No change to mines though.
I assumed he was going Falls since it worked well for him last time, I decided to counter with Airborne. Went with Engi/penal/car/penal x2. Opening didn't start to good got some bleed but not much. He did make a panic Rak which let me push harder with more Infantry. Made Dshka and Airborne Guards to counter Falls and bully Volks. Got T70 out and took momentum of fight, got some Ober wipes which really helped keep his army from snowballing me. I guess he remembered our last fight so he stalled for panther so I was able to make T34 and Katy around when he got his tank out.
Katy didn't do much but it did stall him and cause a few retreats. His panther didn't do much as I ran away every time he tried to force the issue. Caught him out of postion hit him with a AT strafe which did a little damage but caused him to panic so I was able to kill it. He got another panther out and after building up my T34 reserve waited for my chance to rush him. Got him stuck between a building and my tanks, AT strafe hit him GOOD, maybe 50-60% of his life and my tanks cleaned up. No lose of tank so Game is now leaning heavily in my favor.
Decide to rush him to try and get some wipes while he is trying to rebuild. Quick rush and got his Vet4or5 Falls some other units and his Schwerer. At this point he is forced to hold out for KT which works for me, I got 5 t34 and AT strafe waiting to go. His KT trips a mine and it is go time, his tank is destroyed and the game is pretty much over.
Thoughts:
Airborne with x3 DP is great, good AI and great durability that is able to self heal. I normally don't make them since I hoard muni for AT strafe.
Penals with recovered Lmg are amazing.
2 engi opening has been paying off, helps keep tanks healed and back in fight.
Went Defense tactics with engi opening and clown car, got some bleed along with a lot of luck that kept car alive. Felt I did fairly well in early game so I made a T70 to press him. Didn't get many wipes but did hurt him and force retreats. He got his med tank first but didn't do to much with it, so I caught up and made 2 T34.
Caught him out of position and rushed him with AT overwatch. At this point RNG decided it no like me. My tanks shot the floor 3-4 times at basically point blank range. I got the kill but I needed 2 tanks and 200 muni to make it happen. He gets a Panther out and now I am on backfoot and never really recover. His falls and obers keep getting wipes while I do damage but no wipes.
Once more I catch his Panther out of Position but it takes 3 T34 this time plus AT overwatch to pull it off. I pretty much lost at this point, he calls out KT and puts me in my place.
For me, Def Tactics/Penals isn't to good vs Falls doctrine due to lack of Elite infantry to force bad trades. MG slows them down but boths obers and Falls have smoke to negate them.
Some friendly banter through out game.
Two engineer build with Airborne commander, lost clown car early but was able to inflict bleed and some decap. Called in Mg but lost it in a building due to trying to focus down unit that was retreating. However at pretty much same time I was able to focus down enemy PG which I think helped me more.
Opp has more map but I called in T70 to try and change that. Didn't really get many kills but lots of retreats so it paid off. Was able to get my Med before he did so game is going pretty good. After some poking and prodding I got his P4 but lost one of my tanks. His AT guns are giving me hard time so I call in Katy which promptly misses but I keep barraging him and start to inflict bleed.
He calls in Tiger which I snare with PTRS Penal and try and rush with T34 but bounce galore saves him. I try to finish off with Penal but forced to retreat. Quick rush from injured T34 gets kill. Eventually he calls in another Tiger which required Ram, 2 more T34 and At strafe to take down.
However most of his army is AT focused so he hasn't caused to many casualties so I have enough to call in 3 more T34 at once. I whittle him down and he does one last push with tiger but my mine stops him and I swarm to victory.
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