Profile of austerlitz

Also do alpha testers get to play more than the 3 commanders shown?Or just the basic ones?

You could always just hit retreat and your troops will get out of suppression, but if you are at the point where your medic truck is surrounded and call-ins are dropping on you it's probably better to just abandon the truck rather then fight to the death for it. A mistake I see constintly is players trying to hold the truck long after the battle has turned badly for them and end up losing their entire force. The truck can always be replaced 7 infantry squads not so much.

Ideally you want to set the medic truck somewhere where it's hard for your enemies to get line of site and far back enough where your enemy can't easily launch an assault from it. If you are fighting around it, things most likely aren't going so well to begin with.

I meant the flak truck..which i expect to be the forward truck..with medic backup close by.BTW can i have 2 trucks converted to same type in diff sectors..say 2 flak trucks.So if i lose 1 i don't lose my main production centre for a time?

panther is fine at 175 fuel when compared to T34/85 at 130 fuel, for performance vs cost

It has better frontal armor than t34/85 maingun that has 59% chance of pen.Its like comparing T34/76 vs PanzerIV

It biggest problem right now is that T34/85 does not require teching.

And that panther requires huge teching,and that t-34 can easily 2 shot squads,and that it has same health as panther,and that they happen to have a rather cheap mark target ability which render pen irrelevant.And that with 2 tanks...one will always more or less flank u.

OKW trucks in their original form are given free after a certain amount of time but take resources to set up. And setting them up isn't all that expensive. The loss of a truck will set the player back a bit, but not by much.

The trucks themselves are far from defenseless, in fact quite the opposite. The flak truck will tear up infantry. An infantry only attack is suicide against it, AT guns are a must since they can attack out of it's range and the healing truck will usually be defended by a constantly healing and reinforcing army that can retreat to it if it comes under attack. Only the resource truck is vulnerable but since it provides no battle utility it can be kept closer to the base where it will be safe.

It's a constant decision for the OKW player on whether to try to rush your truck up to cover a valuable point or keep it further back where it will be safer. Either way it will take the allies players entire army to launch their "sieges" on your trucks as they will need to protect their AT weapons and the OKW player will be attempting to take them out before their truck falls.

The trucks don't need to convert to gain resources, so you can always just leave them as is on contested point and retreat them if you can no longer defend the point. Leaving converted trucks further in the rear where they are less likely to be taken out.

Oh thats good to hear,thank you.So loss of converted trucks won't be crippling.

Especially using breakthrough doctrine i can get sturmofficer which is a obersoldten squad with officer aura,plus panzerfusiliers...why then tech to truck and lose fuel that can be hoarded for a panther?

Breakthrough commander looks very useful -

The cap territory is cheap and useful.
Sturmofficer and panzerfusiliers give lots of AI options.Especially panzerfusilier at long range combined with sturmpio short.And sturmofficer aura.

Assault artillery seems incredibly useful...looks like basically a sector arty version9possibly less destructive) on an Enemy sector plus a bonus smokescreen for an advance.Imo if it lives up to its description one of the best offmaps in the game.

Finally jagdtiger can compliment panthers for a superb lategame.

Now luftwaffe doctrine -

Mg 34 1 CP- yeah pretty useful lockdown unit that OKW lacks,particularly in truck defense..lets see how utilitarian it is.Will replace fragile kubel.

Fallschirms- star of this doctrine.Expect this to be best okw infantry..in screenshots looks like they can shoot fg42s on the move.How good this doctrine is depends on how good these are vs BARs and penal flamers/dp guards(both of which can kill the truck).

Heavy fortifications seems perfect with a turtle around the truck.

Valiant assault-well another little boost.Why not.

Airborne assault- not that useful as a solo off map ,but could be used defensively to fire support and reinforce and endangered truck sector in defense.

Overall lacks lategame AT,but looks great for defense and infantry.Will have to tech KT probably here.

The 3rd doctrine is seriously pretty disappointing.

Radio silence?Really?So for a few seconds minimap will be blocked..lol.

Infiltration grenade..another pretty meh.Too situational..basic OKW unit already has grenade.

Infrared stg 44 package...will have to tech to obersoldtaen and will be probably marginally better than mg 34 lmg upgrade since it will bolster still long range firepower.

Artillery flares...nah.Poor man's recon.

Panther command tank.Only really useful ability in the doctrine.Could be useful if u went mechanized regiment and jagdpanzers...jagdpanzer and panther combo would hold back most enemy armour likely.But going t3 compromises truck defense and no 75 mm gun for ranged support.

This is by FAR the weakest commander revealed.