Was way ahead, Opp came back, close but I won

Played this guy before, had him on the backfoot until P4J hit the field and he cameback.

Started game with engi, built T1 and rushed clown car. I had a feeling we would go for same gas. He forced my initial engi to retreat car, came to push him back while engi and penal cleaned up. I pretty much punished him early game until he got my flamer clown car out of position. I have more gas so I rushed out T70 got a wipe with penal back up but he killed T70 with Puma.

I get out Dshka and pretty much ignore his puma and keep map control. I get out T34 out first and keep bullying his infantry. Little by little becomes a tank race. He gets P4J and I have 3 T34, lose 1 trying to kill his tank so I break away and get Puma. Little by Little he trades his infantry for Obers, which puzzles me due to feeling like he shouldn't have as much mp as he does. He ends up stealing MG, I steal rak, he kills tanks I kill some.

Score is 100 - 400 in my favor but he pulls comeback now.

Even though I have map I am really low on MP so he claws back with Tiger and Obers which are trading efficiently. I make Katy to try and get some wipes to slow him down but don't get to much. I keep poking back and forth but my T34 decide to literally hit everything but mg/obers/rak when I catch them out of position. He eventually pushes me back to base with Tiger and P4J while also decrewing my 120 mortar which got to VET3. I am super frustrated now since despite him losing several units he seems to be able to maintain pressure.

At this point I think he either underestimated my tank forces or got cocky so I catch him out of position. Get both Tiger and P4J while losing 2 T34. He is severely undermanned now so we keep attacking middle point in waves since he has around 18 points and I have around 60. I get a few more wipes while he get a panther out, he uses it to runover troops but it doesn't do much with its main gun which allows me to cap and force him to come to me. I go all in to hold on to VP and get the win.


After watching the replay it looks like most of my MP bleed came from T34 underperformance, took 5 to kill 2 P4J and Puma.
We were trading pretty evenly inf wise which is a win for me due to reinforce cost.
Penal with stolen LMG is good, Penal with X2 LMG is an inf squad eraser.
Should have rushed T34, T70 requires a lot more baby sitting to pay off.
P4J seems to overperform for cost compared to Panther, more due to armor than the gun.

EDIT: Just realized I beat a top 100 player, feeling pretty good.