Nerf Greyhound Canister Shot

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:34 PMUbertoaster

I go for Recon support just for the Grayhound.
I love collecting OKW tears.

The canister shot is the only thing that makes it worthwhile.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:43 PMAlexzandvar

You can cloak your IR's close to his HQ and just force a retreat, drop it a second or two before his units get to the HQ and you will kill his entire army.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:06 PMKatitof

Hey, it allowed me to stay for 40 mins against Jesulin in 1v1
But yea, greyhound window of opportunity is extremely thin, it arrives around the same time you can pump Puma(100% hardcounter) out and about the same time as 222, which costs half as much and tears it a new one(because light armored car with 20mm gun apparently is more powerful then pretty darn well armored car with 37mm gun).

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:50 PMpugzii

Sounds almost like a stuka onto a US general retreat point

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:41 PMEsxile

I won't deny you,

But you should try the reco run that give a huge advantage just before a massive push. You know where his ATguns are, blob is etc...
IR Pathfinder has a unique ability: to call Arty barrage in the fog of war. So you sneak behind his line and you don't even need to have vision to burst him. Of course you need to know where is your target but the previous reco run is here for that. Perfect counter to medic truck.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:56 PMCookiezNcreem

You lost though...and at the end of the day, at least in 1v1, did you win or lose? I tried this against Miragefla while he was Ost and drug the game out 30 mins by just spamming greyhound canister and AT guns. I still lost. Im sure that game wasnt fun for Mir..it wasnt fun for me either.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 07:38 AMdasheepeh

well, the stuart was a canister shot beast too. It was even stronger i remember.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:15 PMKatitof

Hey, it was Jesulin, alright?
I got him in early game(he was using OKW), but I'm just a mere human so I started making mistakes, he did not was one of my better games until the stupid came in and ruined it for me.

I still like the unit and the doctrine thou, was first and only WFA commander I bought only for it to drop for me shortly after. Love the M20+M8 combo but I'm way too aggressive and eventually overextend. Overally, I believe I won more games then I lost, but definitely not thanks to greyhound alone, it helped, but it wasn't deciding factor, rather just a force multiplier for M20.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:56 PMAlexzandvar

Except IR artillery doesn't go WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH, and you can move the ambulance/major. There is far, far less warning for IR artillery versus the time it comes in.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:26 PMpugzii

But by your logic you would be doing it on retreat so the WOOSH WOOSH WOOSH would be irreverent since the units would be on retreat arriving at the general... seriously check your own words mate lmol

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 16:38 PMAlexzandvar

You know what will wipe vetted Obers? Literally any tank in the game, sorry dude but you whine about Obers in every single thread and it's getting a tad stale. It's a 4 man squad, a Scott can wipe it instantly



If you opponent gets in a building or you even get close to a Sturm squad your Dodge is going to die very fast. It's just not worth it when you could spend the fuel on other things, the withdraw and refit ability is cool but unless you like using Stuarts I don't see why you would ever want to use it. Every USF vehicle works well throughout the game, the M20 can keep laying mines and doing recon, the AA HT can kite and kill infantry, the Scott and Jackson still do their jobs.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:34 PMAlexzandvar

But you can cancel the retreat point and move your major/ambulance, plus the WOOSH lets you know it's coming with out actually needing to look at your retreat point, there's no woosh for IR artillery, only sadness and destruction

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:26 PMCookiezNcreem

Can imagine M20 M8 being really good against ost..but then again anything is good against ost.


Puma would shut the build down immediately unless there were m20 mines everywhe- oh wait. this commander munches on muni like a fat kid on cake

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:37 PMAustralian Magic

You know that Obers are not walking around the map alone? They are walking with Volks blob. 3 Volks = insta 360dmg = insta retreat from Sherman. If OKW is so weak, or another way, Allies have so many amazing units to wipe everything, why you are not top allied player if it is so easy to wipe them?

Losing Dodge to SP is L2P. Issue.
Call for Assault Engi, put them into dodge, laught at SP.




Brilliant, so you can strike with Stuka so 2 shells will land on retreat point wiping army and the rest will land behind it, on retreat path in case if your enemy will disbale it.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:48 PMAssaultPlazma

I once beat a player with nearly 20 times(literally no joke around 2,000 hours) the amount of time played as me with a M20/M8 combo..... (and yes I have the replay uploaded to prove it)

On a side note can someone please show me some replays with mechanized company at work because I simply cannot use this commander worth crap, and have written him off as crap.

Jump back to quoted post24 Feb 2015, 17:50 PMAlexzandvar

assuming that the retreat point is a perfect line.

Dodge is not durable, it's not really a L2P issue, more a fact it's less durable than a a scout car, which already isn't very durable. Add in horrible pathing and you get a shit unit that takes up fuel to counter something getting a building counters or strafing does.

And I said Scott not Sherman, because Sherman's are garbo, they love to shoot the ground just as much as the Puppchen does. I'm not a top allied player because I don't play enough, although I'm looking to get up in 2's with my clan leader.