Profile of Lucas Troy

Recently forgot to veto this map in automatch, playing 1 v 1 as OKW against a US opponent. On seeing the map I immediately sent my Sturm pios out with the first half track and built a medic base right in the middle of the island. Then I used that base to take over the middle area that contains most of the resources, built a LeIG to bombard the approaching attacks, and after that happened it was pretty easy to win. He attacked the sides of the map and controlled them at times, but sooner or later I took them back with Fallschrim flanking supported by more bombardment from the center. Once I got the Flak I placed it in the center area and that was pretty much the end of his ability to attack the center.

Not here to say this is OP, necessarily, but I'm wondering how to counter an aggressive forward base placement by OKW on Semoisky specifically (a cramped map with most of the resources in the middle). Like, if I'm the US or the soviets, which strategies are good against that? Ignoring that area is a tall order, as it contains so many of the points.

Lately I've been trying to get into team automatch, and have run into some difficulties.

In 2v2, half the time I get someone who's pretty good, but the other half is people who are going for what I call "defeatist" strategies, that is to say, strategies that aren't bad play, but simply have no potential to work. I mean like letting the other team have both fuel points and camping one of the victory points with most of their units and some tank traps and then ignoring my pleas for an attack on one of the fuel points. Or that one guy who spammed fuel caches while giving up most of the map. I'm no expert myself, but what I'm doing has a chance of working at least, even if it doesn't always because my execution isn't great.

Granted, like half the time it's the other team that's doing this, but still, it's frustrating either way.

Also, 3/4 of the 2 v 2 games I do involve a drop at some point.

1 v 1 feels fine, because there I simply lose when my opponent outplays me.

Am I just had too low of an ELO right now? Is that still solidly in the "noob" category? Fair enough if so, but for me that's a decent investment in a game.

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Also, most people I play with have almost no interest in even brief communication. Isn't at least some coordination necessary to have a chance?

Yep, actually all guns including pak40, pak43, and especially SU-85 and Slugger (Jackson) should be able to shoot HE rounds as those always did. I feel it really strange looking when 2 field guns are supporting infantry in a fight and no enemies die...

You know, frontal attack on field gun shuld be possible but extremly risky, now its most common tactic, you dont need to flank cause thosa guns cant kill you.

Right, but this isn't a WWII simulator. In real life an anti-tank gun out in the open certainly could not survive multiple shots from a tank like 30 yards away, but that's something you see all the time in the game.

I wish the ISU worked like the Sturmtiger - give it even more killing power, and then some manual reload cool down. So it'd be like a Sturmtiger, except a bit less powerful, a bit easier to use. Plus other adjustments to make it balanced I suppose (maybe make it cheaper or something).

IMO the Sturmtiger is a much better designed unit than any of the other super heavies, be they Elefant or ISU, because it's powerful but it comes with drawbacks.

Agreed. Realistically, I'm sure an anti-tank gun could kill a guy, but I don't like how often this happens in the game, especially that it's so erratic and unpredictable. Exception being ZiS, which fills a more general function. ZiS should have some anti-infantry ability, everything else should be incapable of killing infantry, like the anti-tank guns in vCoH.