Got raped by this yesterday on Road to Kharkov (north). 2v2, both opponents went Agrens straight of the bat. Built 4 of them each I think. Since it was almost impossible to get a squadwipe it was hard to push them back and also hard to hold cutoff and fuel. The big issue was the sheer force of them. When they got 3 squads up (Supported by HT) and pushed each side it was really hard to get something useful done. Since the map was narrow, there wasnt really any other place to go to avoid fighting them and harass. Now it was the first time we played against this and we were not prepared.
So Im also interested in what can counter this? One player goes penals with flamers and the other one maxims, work on one side? They played very fluid and moved their Agrens all the time so using something like Heavy Mortars to try to protect points or hit advances dont seem like something to rely on. Maxims seem risky if they move about that much, even if the deploytime is short.
Faced double assgrens on Kharkov aswell yesterday, we played south. I usually don't spam maxims, but on Kharkov one player has to do that if you spot assgren doctrine on the opponent I think. Got 4 maxims, 2 at guns, my mate got 4 scripts with mollies and at nades, then Shocktroops.
We repelled the first attacks in our cutoff, which is very obvious move by assgren players and then pushed aggressively to theirs occupying the critical houses with maxims. Naturally flamerht and pgrens appeared but we managed to hold them off. I literally spammed mines everywhere, spending every bit of my munis on mines because they really rock on Kharkov.
I proceeded to tech to tier4, feeling comfortable with our fuel situation, the amount of stopgap antitank we had and map littered with mines I decided to get katyushas. Panzer- and assgren blobs were decimated and when both enemy players finally teched to Panthers we had sufficient amount of SU85s to combat them.