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Not a very good example, but it shows how the current WC51 can be used to hardcounter early OKW play.

I would have a better example, but I don't have any replays saved.

~sometimes~, yeah the fact it has 1 good ability in the return for resources, which is pointless anyway since you shouldn't even be building stuarts to recall.

Every other USF commander other than Armored is better, all mechanized does is serve as a noob trap to people who legit actually like WC51 trucks are on par with Scout Cars or that unironically think the USF AA HT or the M20 is useless past the early game.

If you want to call me a noob and laugh at my tactics, how about you fight me. I'll use mechanized, you can do whatever the hell you want. If you are just going to call people noobs without understanding the playstyle of the faction in question, then you may as well just head on over to the official forum, where you will be happy amongst your kind.

Have a nice day.

Shermans/ panthers reload 15% faster (3x 5%) is my current bulletin favorite.

Though 3x grenade range and 3x shrek cost seem to be the best.

About stucking/pathfinding issue...

For example, Semosky, north spawn.
We have narrows passage to get to the city.
If you take 3 Jacksons under one hotkey and order them to move to the city, they will move in a line behind each other. OK.
Now let's order them to reverse and they won't reverse one by one.
First one, the closest to the passage will reverse but 2 of them will try to look for another path/rotate cause this one is blocked by reversing Jackson.

Point is, how it's different from moving forward?
If you can move forward one by one, why you can reverse like that?

If your Panther or Tiger will rotate for 3-4 seconds it will survive.
But for Jackson or Sherman it means death.

Exactly this. I find that USF gets punished the most by pathfinding because they must rely on low HP units to do their jobs. A panther/ tiger can get caught on a point, rotate, and still escape because of their HP pool (especially since tigers can bounce sherman rounds to the rear), due to their high HP pools. If a pursued Jackson/sherman turns around and stops, it dies because it has low armor and HP, meaning that a panther can finish them with the help of the volksgrenadiers that are not far behind. Not to mention the fact that because USF has multiple tanks, one pathfinding hiccup may stall your entire retreat, while axis may only have one other unit to worry about.

The only real counter to path-finding that I have found is to set each US tank to its own hotkey and micro them all separately, or in the late-late game, in groups of two for shermans. This causes me to lose my ability to micro my infantry forces, which leads to them dying and me having nothing but micro heavy tanks in the late game with maybe 2 rifle squads as my base army.

nice strat. I am still trying to find a way to use the m10 wolverine and his commander, do you have one with him ?

I don't have a real strat that I have been using for the armor commander, but the way most people use it is to go LT + CPT -> callins. That being said, I don't really like relying on bulldozers and m10s late game.

For your early game, I would go:

rifle
ass engie
rifle
rifle

LT

Major

Regular armor

Late game, I would rely on jacksons and regular shermans/scotts because they seem to be a lot better at their respective roles. I would maybe build 1 sherman bulldozer to act as a meat shield, but don't rely o them for AI.

Assault engies are the main reason to use this doctrine. They give USF a flamethrower, which is amazingly useful on maps like semoisky to burn enemies out of buildings, and give USF a supplemental force of CQC DPS. The main strength of ass engies is their ability to plant demos, which are a must vs. OKW super blobs. Place them near points an on roads to maximize their killing potential. Ass engies also come with USF light AT mines. Place them in clusters of 4 to have a good chance of immobolizing enemy armor. This way, you have your flank covered from panther rushes, and don't have to build an M20 for mining. Ass engies don't scale very well late game, but have the vet 1 "repair critical" bility that USF vehicle crews have, so you can use them to help your crews with repairs in battle. Ass engies at vet 3 repair much faster than vehicle crews, and I am pretty sure they don't take as much damage as usual at vet 3 when attacked while repairing.

Vehicle crew Thompsons is one of the worst upgrades in the game, but they can be useful if you havea spare vehicle crew that you saved from dieing in their vehicle and you happen to be floating munitions. The thompsons make vehicle crews have as much DPS as paras with thompsons, they just aren't as survivable. Use them to flank enemies and ambush hostiles coming around corners.


The bulldozer is a good support unit, but it should not be the bulk of your armor. The base M4A3 sherman is more versatile, and seems to be better in the anti infantry role. The main advantage of the bulldozer is its greater armor, so use it to soak damage for your jacksons/ scotts/ shermans. It also has an interesting ability to create tank-trap like green cover on the battlefield. In theory, it would be good for setting up a defense and forcing enemy armor into mines, but I have not used them myself so I cannot comment on their usefulness.

The M10 is not a very good AT unit. It is good in groups of two vs. ostheer tier 3 (p4s, stugs, flackpanzer), but almost useless vs. anything heavier. If you have the micro, take advantage of its speed to crush enemy infantry, which it is amazing at.

The 220mm Artillery is great for RNG squad wipes when you attack an OKW built in position with it. If you are lucky, it could wipe a blob. If you are unlucky, you just blew all those munitions. Use it on clustered enemy positions like the basic OKW build in strategy on semoisky for best effect. Still better than major arty.