Best ways to counter Flamer Halftrack

Jump back to quoted post25 Oct 2013, 15:00 PMTristan44

hmm interesting strats. loving it.

Usually if an opponent goes 3-4 assgrens shouldn't that take a while and really hinder his fast tech to FHT?? By the time 2 assgrens come into the field you could probably have 3 almost 4 cons and some decent map control if you avoid him.

Jump back to quoted post25 Oct 2013, 16:45 PMEupolemos

You are indeed wrong.

Due to AG's being call-ins, and thus have zero buildtime, the third AG hits the field at roughly the same time the third Con does (+80MP).

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Jump back to quoted post25 Oct 2013, 08:59 AMOnkelSam

Guards and AT-nades/AT-Guns sounds good and works in most circumstances.
A particular scenario that i have issues with is when my opponent starts with Assault grenadier spam and directly techs to flamer HTs. In this case i usually stall with conscripts at long range, in buildings or capping around where there are no Assault Grens. This however leaves you with little XP for the first CP that unlocks guards. So, more often than not the Flamer HT arrives when i only have 3/4 of a CP and no guards.

What do you do in this scenario?

Jump back to quoted post25 Oct 2013, 03:36 AMOMGPOP

I think it's probably better to have one guard squad in a M3 over 2 guard squads. It will force the opponent to upgun a 222 before getting the flame upgrade, delaying the doom push. It works even better if the Soviet player can bait out a couple panzerfausts with the flame engineer M3 without losing the M3, sometimes it's enough to convince the opponent to not upgrade flame at all due to various munition expenditure he was forced to make. Another advantage of this approach is the possibility that Germans could make a mistake and allow the Guard M3 to chase and destroy the HT and/or the 222.