Profile of Esxile

Luchs:

My opinion is you can't do shit vs a well microed Luchs. There are too many shrecks on the field the moment your Stuart hit the field to be a treat to him or he seriously fucked his micro. I prefer to go Lieutenant + Zooks + Half-track to take the volks blob suppressed and try some hit on the Luchs but guess what last time I tried to kill a Luchs with zook, it missed 2x2 volleys in a raw, can't help vs bad luck.
So eventually you'll take the Luchs out to face the Pz4 or Panther afterward.

Why I also prefer the Half-track: Both the HT and the Stuart are pointless vs the OKW Pz4 and Panther. I mean ok, a Stuart is interesting with the stun + an tank in support, but here again, what do you do vs the shreck blob? Better having a HT to suppress the blob and Zooks + tanks vs the Pz4. With a bit of micro I manage to save the HT quite a long time every game.
In addition it become a source of frustration for the other player so he may lose his temper to kill it and do something stupid that can benefice you.

Early game:

It is sad to say but, blob.
I send my RE capping and keep my rifles close to my cutoff until I have 3 squads. I fact, I let him attack the first round. Your RE should be able to take down the Kubel alone with some micro.
And then I start blobbing with 3 rifles asap, my goal is to seek confrontation and focus fire on the sturm, ideally I take it down. And repeat.

Lieutenant
Once the lieutenant bought, it depends on the map and how you are engaged, M20 to harass his fuel or .50 to use it with your blob. Yes use the .50 with your 3RM. It is easy, you send your blob A-move in a direction and when you start fighting you keep microing your RMs squads, the .50 setup alone and start suppressing from behind.
Zooks: equip your zooks on RE
HT: keep the zooks close to the HT and use it as a central point, always keep your RM in front of them and if you have to hard retreat all of them, retreat the HT as well.

Panic button
If I can't kill the Luchs fast enough, it also means I didn't cut if fuel or took enough advantage so I expect Pz4, In this case I go Armor for a fast M10.
If I took the Luch and I'm confident I can handle him, I go Major first or not, honestly I'll probably go Armor in any case

Personally I end up many games vs OKW with 2x.50, I use 1 for capping and harassing and 1 to protect my flank. Just A-move it so it only set up when he sees enemies.

I think we should wait 1 week. Let the meta setlle down and then start making asuptions in 1vs1.

Keep in mind that lot USA player ranks were inflated and belong to top 300 not 150 and thier rank was mainly based on flame rifle cheese with vet 3 in 10 minutes.

So please wait one week everyone except top 20 need to adapt a bit and then we see.


EDIT: I was also looking at game played.Most top 150 played only OKW or mostly OKW and not many players played allies so OKW got matched much more times agains lover than top 150 players than other factions because of imbalance in Axis/allies games played

http://coh2chart.com

Do it again and explain us how to use the meta with Brit
After all you are our Strategist in this forum. I'd love to read you about Brit and new meta.

Just a question of feeling, I don't know where to look the stats numbers. But it seems to me it take much more time to repair stuff with the crew. Just an impression on several games.

Faust would be 10 times worst than Shrek, 1 faust is enough to engine damage anything inferior to sherman, I let you imagine what happens if you get catch by 1 faust from a volks blob.
The problem with Volks is the spam, Relic must add tolls on OKW abilities so the player cannot simply build 1 after 1 his volks:
Add a 100mp/15 fuel toll to unlock shrek
Add a 100mp/15 fuel toll to unlock flamnade

Or at least if Relic doesn't want to add tolls, link the flamnade to T1 and shrek to T2 or the opposite if you want.

just asking but, wouldn´t be better then if they set that first ability in rifle company as a call-in "RE with flamethrower, with adjusted stats, and then, leave the normal RE´s as always???


RE don´t get Flamethrower non-doctrinal because the are dirty cheap if I´m not wrong, but now, you get more expensive RE because there is one doctrine where they could be OP.

It doesn´t make sense to me....is just a plain nerf to RE´s except when using rifle company, where they can enjoy their flamethrowers....not only a nerf (well deserved) to the doctrine, but a nerf to this RE unit itself in any other commander.

Anything would have been better than just increasing their price and dps but not their survivability.