Get your flamenwurfer to vet II. Win. On Minsk/Kharkov send assgrens to fuel/cutoff, micro around the Molotovs, then you can follow up with whatever unit floats your boat.
Ostheer is easy mode if you take it slow and let them do the screwing up. Get a feel for their fuel income and try to get your stuff together to faust the T70 and pak shot it early midgame. The riskiest part for T70 rush is right after you've started taking all their territory with flamenwurfer/lmg grens when you have isolated capping units. If you haven't seen Molotovs or AT nades you're about to get T70ed.
My favorite bit is when the Maxim walks into the range of the mg, faces the wrong way, has to turn and then proceeds to own the MG42 even though it's being mortared at the same time.
That's why I suggested a checkbox for "increase wait time for a better match."
I do learn a bit from playing people far above my skill level, but mostly seeing what they do is interesting, tbh, doesn't help me in the least with what I'm doing to counter it. Like I played one top player today, and while his assgren micro was great to watch, it didn't help me with knowing what to do with my cons, ie., "stay in building while he roams around?," "try to toss Molotov or not," "move to cover or stay at range," when to retreat another con that was in a building yet STILL getting pulverized by the assgren, etc.
Ok, Relic. I play a lot. I get on these streaks see? And then you send me up against 4 or 5 top 50 players in a row, I, not surprisingly, lose them all, and you send me back down to some horrible ELO bracket reserved for the mentally challenged and "just trying out the game" set. Then I get on another retarded streak only to, once again, hit top 50 players I am not going to beat. And after 5-6 games playing noobs, I actually START PLAYING WORSE. Because I don't have to focus as much. And so, for me, the process repeats. This isn't fun for the top guys, this isn't fun for us (apparently few) intermediate level players. And it's certainly not fun for the 5-6 guys I have to stomp in order to re-raise my bracket.
I DO NOT CARE HOW LONG IT TAKES TO GET A MATCH WITHIN 50 SPOTS OF MY LEADERBOARD RANK. If it takes 15 minutes, I'm fine with that. If it takes five, so much the better. How about an option for it? Ie. "Click to wait longer for a better match." People who want to play faster can use the default system, those who want a more even match can click it and the system will increase the timers.
I have also noticed that being beaten by someone NEAR or below your rank has far more negative consequences than it ought to. It seems to me that losing to someone below me instantly lowers my ELO bracket, when it should take 4-5 games losing to people in your bracket or below to send you down to the lowest tiers. If this is the case, please modify it. Maybe I'm having a bad day, maybe it's an up-and-comer, whatever. Being sent down to the handicapped bracket for one loss is just too much punishment.
Just played him earlier. He does that strat every single game. Didn manage to beat it yeat. With 4 men squads its really painfull. Maybe to camp the buildings. The mp drain is so hard i couldnt get anything decent ou by the time t34 came.
Well someone's beating him cuz he has a ton of losses...He makes 2 engies and mines everywhere, very tough.
What do you do vs this kind of stuff? I made a scout car but of course there were mines. I have no idea how to beat this, as far as I can see it's really overpowered.