Holy 9 Points vs KV8 spam

Apparently this guy came independently to a variation on the Cataclaw KV8 strat I just demonstrated in a shoutcast I posted yesterday. This guy did Maxim spam + AT guns to KV8s...A LOT LOT OF AT GUNS.

This is more effective than you might think..."Dude just get a flamenwurfer." Yeah well when he gets more than one at gun out on this map, it's not so easy. Did get a mortar at least...and then arty and a pak emplacement, which got roasted, so it was time to turn to the Panther....but the KV8s set me back so hard, it's kind of amazing I won this. I was just not flanking properly mid game...but maxims are still quite tough and this guy was utilizing that fact in a way I've seldom seen.

This IS an effective strat as opposed to the usual conscript spam and as Cataclaw showed, conscript spam to KV8s + plus AT is damn good too.

It took me a long damn time to figure out what was going on...but once I caught on I learned from Golraeder's mistakes. This guy also did not produce shocks for a long time so it was REALLY hard to tell what doc he'd gone. And wow did it get tight.

half way through the game you had made already the following mistakes:

1. lost the ht unnecessarily
2. used ur p4 as spearhead (no support, driving around trying to pick everything off)
3. didnt fall back after you hat the ZISes uncrewed
4. didnt recrew the ZISes (or stayed there to wach them)
5. (its more of a tip: arty officer + mortars and other arty are a good counter to maxims or slow moving units)
6. didnt get another p4 when you had the ZIs uncrewed (you had the resources, would've countered the kv8)
7. build the leFH at an exposed area instead of in your base. its range it incredibly high

that was enough to lose there game right there.

but you didnt. good call on t4 and a good come back.

Thanks a lot for the tips...

Yeah I felt midgame I was just doing stupid shit as I got so fixated on killing maxims, I really should have consolidated on one side of the map and tried harder to steal the first three Zises...