Profile of DanielD

I did really like the rangers in the ambulance move, it made me sad they didn't complete their mission.

Better question is why don't infantry sections get a snare.

Glad someone brought this up tbh. I feel like vs OKW especially, but even vs Ostheer to an extent, you are almost obligated in 1v1 to go AEC because otherwise you only have PIATs and AT guns to deal with a PII or 222. AT guns get flanked incredibly easily, and PIATs are super cost prohibitive early in the game.

I do think that with the current pathfinding the AEC doesn't really perform well in its intended role. Maybe an acceleration buff?

A lot of good replies already, I'll just add a bit. Snipers are 360mp compared to the 200-300 of a regular squad, and they don't shoot more than once every few seconds. If you engage his army with your entire army you theoretically have the dps advantage. It is pretty high risk high reward though. As OKW on many maps its easy, you just pick falls or scavange and pop a squad out of a building behind the sniper.

All that being said though, you dismissed one of the best solutions out of hand

I could dive in with lights but afraid of mines, sending engies will often mean they get picked off instead.

You send the engies (and another inf squad preferably) right in front of the light vehicle, then you avoid main chokes/roads once the vehicle has left the engineers behind. If you really can't sweep mines deep enough to push in with a light vehicle you should post a replay.

I'll watch the replay and give some notes.

Your MG is north where your MG bunker is for like 20 minutes, you could have had the MG move and had a much easier time vs the inf blobs.

You built a stug when you didn't really need emergency AT, if you had just banked fuel and then let your friends panther fight the brit tanks your opponents wouldn't have had such a good start in the armor war. Then your friend throws his panther away after killing a sherman for free!

It may not feel fair, but frankly the allies can throw a few tanks away while the germans have to make sure not to lose many (if any). Just like real WWII. They also had 3 fuel OPs while you guys had 0, so once you lost those first few tanks you were pretty much screwed. Check this out:http://imgur.com/a/Aimbe

You also both picked doctrines very early, and neither had a super-heavy. A jagd, a tiger, a command panther, any of those would have helped tons. Also if your friend had gone command panther you could have used flares and realized they had no inf in the mid game and there was nothing stopping you guys from pushing up into their base.

TL;DR: The comets were unchallenged because you lost tanks early unnecessarily, didn't build fuel OPs, built stugs instead of teching T4, and neither of you picked OP commanders.

GL in your future games!