Profile of Hon3ynuts

Your opponets cutoff = yes

Your cutoff = no

Basically sandbags, just need to understand that they're much stronger than green cover even though they use the same symbol. So don't place them where you think you'll have a hard time pushing your opponet from.

Try to place them where your opponet won't be able to garrison them with MGs. Weird angles that you can use but your opponet cannot use as well.

Are they garrison cover? Or something different

To my understanding Garrison cover is slightly worse than green cover for RA. But you do not get it negated at close range. Trenches would therefore work the same right?

A couple points

1. Focus on capping order, map control
You cap munitions and the victory point on the right first. You need to prioritize the fuel and particularly getting units there quickly. Additionally if he ran his sturmpioneers to the right fuel and your engineers were forced off you may get no fuel. In a t1 soviet build You should play defensively until you get a scout car out. Keeping the engineer and con units fairly close so you can soft retreat and help out vs sturms or volks that show up.

2. Build order
Key timings
3:30 Flamer M3
4:00 OKW Tier 1 after 3 volks
~5:00 Potential for OKW T2 after 4 volks
OKW has no counter to the m3 I recommend getting it as your 4th unit latest.
For example I prefer 2 engies penal m3. Cap until the m3, Then penal, 1 engie and m3 attack together.

Also focus on keeping it alive. You could have had much better map control and probably forced a raketen if you did so. There is also potential to put a squad in it and drive to the okw cutoff immediately to make up for your lack of capping power, there's not much they can do unless they build a raketen before t1.

The t70 came out at 10 minutes. He had no AT at all except fausts, having a better capping order and map control would let you bleed the falls badly for a longer period of time. W/o a puma he has more munitions as he doesn't need to heal but light vehicles are very effective.

3. General
Keep multiple units closer together, often times they were isoloated where as your opponent would have 2/3 squads together easily forcing off units without much damage taken.
It's not a great map for cutoff moves but focus on cutting off your opponent more especially when you force retreats, do damage or have a light vehicle advantage.

Commandos vs Paras

vet 1
passive healing , Unlocks light smoke grenade vs -25% ability recharge time
point goes to Commandos

vet 2
+35% speed during ambush for 3.25 second, +30% accuracy, 25% grenade range vs +25% accuracy, +25% grenade range, Passive Healing
point goes to Commandos

Vet 3
0.9 received accuracy, Squad drops a big smoke grenade on retreat vs -20% weapon cooldown, -29% received accuracy
point goes to Paras

All and all better RA accuracy bonus (but worse total number) vs 0.5 accuracy and -20% weapon CD on top of that Commandos get healing earlier a smoke grenade and smoke bomb on retreat.

I would call them in line.

Okay Commandos are tied for the 16th best veterancy instead of the 17th best veterancy out of ~20 infantry squads

that is no longer accurate, commandos vet bonus have increased allot and combined with base stat make the unit scale well...

vet 1 passive healing , Unlocks light smoke grenade
Vet 2 +35% speed during ambush for 3.25 second, +30% accuracy, 25% grenade range
Vet 3 0.9 received accuracy, Squad drops a big smoke grenade on retreat

Which infantry units are you comparing this to which would have worse stat bonuses than this?
To my knowledge 30% acc and no cooldown is quite low as is .9 RA

For comparison tommies have 25% acc, -20% cd and .77 RA as vet bonuses

Back to topic

To build 3 rifles and an officer now costs 50 manpower more. Mabye this will have an impact on how effective rifles are in the first 6-7 minutes as it would be equivalent losing almost 2 extra models. I think this is a nerf though not directly to stats. Mabye after the mini-patch we should re-evaluate the rifles OP question.

The m4a3 Sherman Crew instantly dies upon pressing the Decrew Button, their silent bodies lay limp next to the tank.

This is quite an impactful bug and I forgot to save the replay, but it has happened twice to me in the last week during 4v4s