Close game, lots of momentum swings

Didn't see any ass gren or osttruppen commander so I decided to go with Defense tactics. I lost a match before on this map due to lack of mid game indirect.

Opened with engi/penal/clowncar, went with the usual decap and harass. Caught his mg out of position and pushed it with my engi(LOL) forced a retreat. Then caught a gren alone with penal and engi got the wipe so I know at this point I got infantry #s on him so try to cap as much as possible. I am dictating the match but he gets his scout car out. I try to catch it out of position which I did but I was to close to his base. He killed it and I was forced to retreat, but I now know he has 1 AT gun. I decide to skip LV and focus on making Dshka and putting down a bunker over my gas. Works pretty good for a bit, the bunker caught him off guard and the Dshka in middle building is slowing him down a lot. Make the 120 mortar to inflict bleed and force random retreats.
He decides to make a sniper as a counter which actually worked out well for him due to my army static nature. As I begin to tech up he has built up an army to deal with tanks. However I know I am vastly ahead in gas so I go Katy first, I am low on MP so I get really passive while he gets aggressive and takes map. He gets to close and on my first rocket get a wipe. But it would be a while before I got more kills, he started to spread out to avoid rocket bleed. I build 2 tanks while he gets his P4, I catch it out of position and kill it in a hit in run. He has the better army but I got more armor at the moment. I slowly try to build my army back up and notice it has been a while so Tiger is likely on the way so got to go beast hunting. I see it, catch it with a rear block and a ram from 2nd T34, At overwatch finishes it off.
I keep getting kills but not many wipes, so he keeps pressure thru sheer presence of his army as I try to claw back VP and map. I get 3 tanks again and try to get some AI kills but nothing much, 2nd tiger is seen which I try to rush again but does not work out well. I lost 2 tanks but I finally kill his AT and destroy them so he has to waste MP building new ones. His tiger is till out and about so I am careful but still feel like I can win even though I am way down on points and not enough army. I finally catch a break when I called arty in against him and he trips his own mine. He rushes to defend it which allows my katy to finally get those sweet sweet kills. I rush in with both T34 and sacrifice one to kill his tiger while 2nd destroys his AT gun.
I am now in control but have less than 80 points so I have to keep pressure on. I keep decapping and crew every empty MG I see to slow him down as much as possible. It is my 2 tanks vs his 2 tanks I call in AT overwatch, commit to killing one with a ram and 2nd t34 to make sure it dies. As he retreats his army I shoot his base with Katy for good measure which causes him to go for my katy out of desperation. I send my T34 to defend my base and I luckly enough just finished building another one which stops him.

GG

Thoughts:
Had a feeling game would drag so indirect really helped me, his sniper worked well(Vet3) but I think it took to much of his attention.
I feel skipping LV works well due to META of building 2 AT guns and keeping them together. Works to well against LV.