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says who, leig works fine for me

Send in the flame nades for the bofors once he braces, take out the pit next doors with a few shreks and he's down 720mp+fuel

Stuka works great to insta wipe his support, pick command panther when he switches to crom spam so no need for T4

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Leig or the ISG? Once mortar pit starts hitting my ISGs I can't make it work because I'll bleed mp into their Vet 2. I have found the most positive results to be stug, p4, Panzerwerfer, close the pocket, Heavy artillery, and just any kind of flame IF i can get it in there.

As OKW, the Stuka zu Fuß w/ 3 5% faster abilities, spec op doc for the flares and a wall racketen is the most consistent solution. Even if I'm not killing the Bofors, I can put some serious bleed on the guys that repair or anything else nearby. The Flare/SZF combo is awesome, probably broken as well. The SZF will vet super fast and if you can get vet 4 there is no chance they can stay on the map with the incinerary bombardment.

I am really looking forward to trying out the sniper idea. Makes a lot of sense. Bleed out their expensive models. Double or single sniper?

Putting a bofors/mortar pit on the field will always do more damage than they cost, it is also very disruptive to your opponents play style. Guys that I've played that lean on it (like 2-4 Bofors and 2-4 Mortars) immediately lose once they are removed from the map. But land matress/Bofors combo and the Bofors into cromwell spam is still hard to deal with.

I tried playing British to get a handle on the situation better. The faction design is kinda messed up, so I can understand why a lot of people that play around my level use this tactic.

I don't think the Bofors is a problem on 1v1. I've never had a problem with it on 1v1. It's 2v2 that I find it to be a huge problem.

just watched siberian play a brit in a 1v1. brit built 2 bofors and a morter pit.

no eplacments went down the entire game.

Nerf the bofors for balance sake

jesus

Replay or link?

You do realise that the base emplacements have their own weapon stats? Nobody is talking about adjusting those, the FlaK emplacement specifically refers to the field-buildable one in certain doctrines. But since you are not retarded, you should already know that, which begs the question as to why you're making an arse out of yourself...

No flaming, plz.

This is the key. What are you doing while he is setting all those things. There's a difference on playstyle between how you should be fighting if no emplacements (how much units, fast tech, cancer commander on load out) and after emplacements. Neither is unbeatable (specially if you know what to veto).

The situation varies drastically from game to game. It sometimes takes the form of an early mg take a key house and holding it. Then it’s a Bofors at 6 min, then it’s mortars and AT. Then after bleeding you for 5 minutes their army is larger than yours. Sometimes the game goes until 7-10 minutes and I have most of the map and both fuels, then they take hold of a fuel point and immediately set up a Bofors followed by a mortar pit and AT gun. Sometimes it 2-3 mortars and anything that get close to it gets annihilated. Most of the time they just creep the SimCity from the first fuel and VP they lock down to the next VP. Then the mortars get vet 2 because sitting next to a Bofors guarantees longevity and the range is significantly increased.

All I know. Is most of the time, unless I’m playing OKW using a very specific strategy, once the Bofors goes up I’m 90% likely to lose the game. In 2v2 random it’s practically impossible to beat SimCity as OH without medium/heavy tanks and if they got it up quickly enough I’m bleeding manpower until it’s gone. You can’t exactly ignore it, either. I’m not the only person with this issue and it’s incredible frustrating, especially with the frequency in which I see this.

This game is supposed to be a dynamic RTS, not a tower defense game.

All I ask is that the Bofors has a minimum range, like 10. Keep its power level at what it is now. It would allow for rushes with a large variety of success across all types of units, and it’s still hard to deal with if it’s properly supported. In essence, the Bofors should be supporting the line not being what holds the line.

The admission that the presence of emplacements has a drastic effect on your playstyle, is admitting to the issue of their power level. I’ve been around long enough to know that the “You can just flank 3 Jacksons to the tiger’s rear armour” or “just keep them off the fuel to delay the tiger” weren’t valid arguments from the axis side and there was obviously a huge issue with the Tiger’s power level then. Before the Tiger was nerfed there was no reason not to get one, there is currently no reason not to get a Bofors with how successful it is implemented. It seems pretty clear that most axis players agree with me that the Bofors is a bit of an issue and most allied players seem to think it’s fine.

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I acknowledge that this may not be as prevalent in the higher ranks.

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I also acknoledge that the Brits generally need some more love.

Has anyone seen this cast that tightrope did? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ_axxkC0IY

Basically shows that one can have no micro and be a relatively crap player and nearly beat a top player using emplacements. Give it a watch and then try to make an argument that emplacements don't need a nerf.

I have yet to be provided with a solution that can consistently beat a bofors and the only time I can beat it is when the british player doesn't set up shop w/ mortar pit and at guns and only then can I consistently beat it with OKW.

I have literally tried every suggestion on this forum and nothing works well. The bofors does not have a counter (edit) that the british play can't easily adjust to.