Profile of Gbpirate

Oh my oh my oh my.
I've gotta agree with Long Johns here:
Didn't need the Mortar HT
By getting that, you sacrifice any offensive capability that the stuart would give you...

Rifle nades do the same thing against MGs as the WP rounds do against the MG34, and they're more accurate.

float less muni! More m1919s pls!

As Long Johns says, it's all about momentum.

not sure why you got a fifth rifle. mis-click?
Floating that much fuel you would've been better off replacing the lost rifle with LT, then an MG.

Okay, bed now...
If you had more m1919s you would've shut your opponent down. He would've been done. With your squads in pairs, your *four* m1919s would've melted those volks w/ schrecks. Falls wouldn't have mattered to you. you would gun them down as they approach you, and you would out dps them at range. With nades, you just smoke his supporting MG34.

Thanks for the advice, I totally forgot about mines in favor of more weapons. I do not like USF tanks, which focus on mobility but can't really flank as well as infantry. Because they are really squishy and probably won't get any veterancy with my bad unit micro.

My use of tanks consist of attacking behind my infantry screen, but I always miss-micro and usually chase and get kited, then killed.

I've thought about the pack howitzer, and I'll be using it as a later strategy, manpower allowing.

Manpower bleed is a huge drain with my kind of playstyle, infantry. I plan on capturing little ground with 2 rifles/group and holding that with sandbags or pits with MGs. My idea is that I can win small battles and push on the enemy retreat.

1) Mines win games!
2) You can flank with tanks, especially on a map like Crossing. Just need to know what AT is where and to knowingly swept the area/routes you're using.
a) don't chase and get shit killed. no need to chase excessively. It's better to take ground and preserve your shit rather than risk your own stuff, potentially losing you the game.
3) Pack howitzer is good, but it won't stop a blob
4) With 4 rifles, that's a formidable amount of infantry, but by the time your fourth rifle came on the field, you had enough fuel for captain but only ~100 mp. Consider making a second RE right away or after the third riflemen squad.
a) With this build, you have a an extra 1.5-3.0 manpower income (because of the popcap difference between riflemen and RE). Additionally, this can allow you to backtech to LT (to get extra AI power missing from 3 rather than 4 rifles, but also, you get access to the .50 cal). Alternatively, you can go Lt - M20 - Captain - Stuart. This delays the stuart by 70 fuel (~3-5 minutes) but it's still viable. M20 can force your opponent to tech to T2 faster/build a raktenwerfer earlier, taking up some of their popcap/manpower but sacrificing their own anti infantry power in the early game.

Even with M1919s, you can still use your rifles aggressively, flanking, etc. I'm not watching past about ten minutes (I want to sleep), but in general I can say that, as USF, using your munitions is crucial. As others have said, use those munis! LMGs, mines (mines in doorways as well; maps like Arnhem, Kholodny, etc., put mines in front of important buildings' entrance(s). Also, smoke grenades are useful. LMG obers, falls, MG34s/42s, LMG grens on the field? smoke 'em. Any infantry that can close (LT, rifle w/ BARs, RE w/ BARs) will do great as well.
M20s are good because you can lay the M6 mine that disables vehicles and does high damage. Late game, building an M20 can be useful just for those mines. Also, you can sub out the vehicle crew w/ an RE squad, grab an extra zook, then give yourself a nice helper for your captain.

In general, don't confine yourself to one build order. Give yourself options. Calliope commander and Pershing are also good in 1v1s (m1919, infantry mines, respectively)

Hmm, Mayor? Simcity?

It's, unfortunately, hard to build sim city as the USF :/

It definitely feels like the most solidly designed faction. It has no OP units (save the Pwerfer) and very few mediocre/useless ones (222 could use a slight buff, PGrens a slight cost decrease and Brumbar more accuracy, but nothing major). Its playstyle is clearly defined, but doctrines allow you to go outside the box if you want to.

And they are still very strong. In the right hands, they are easily among the strongest faction in all play modes.

I'd rather bring things up or down to Ostheer levels personally. I think it's almost the best feeling faction at the moment.

I have to agree with you guys. While G43 grens w/ LMG42s would be cool, it definitely would break balance against soviets. Ostheer has a great, linear design with doctrines that can change things up which is good. I think that's better than having factions where your build is determined by your commander (like the okw commanders w/ mid game infantry, but that's been changed thanks to their tech changes). The unfortunate part for Ostheer is that their early game suffers, at least in 1v1s.

nice 40 minute game on Langreskaya, Airborne vs. Blitzkrieg

Any helpful comments/tips would be great.

I accidentally built a third pio squad, forgive me. Overall I thought it was a good way to play ostheer in its current state. Turtle up in the beginning, then break out later when you've built up strength.

note: rank at 383 before this match