Profile of Glendizzle

I've been using this a lot lately in 4s or in 2s-3s against weaker opponents and/or guys who build lefh. Gotta say, im absolutely loving it. Now, it's not a super strong commander and the top muni ability is basically a "who needs munitions anyway" or "my mini map wasn't colorful enough" button.

Going anvil for the airburst with the bombing stuff through fow is great. pesky leigs standing on top of each other? airburst. mortars hugging each other and causing you grief? airburst. okw med truck sitting there looking pretty? airburst. lefh thinks he can arty you? hell no. airburst. spend munis on absolutely nothing except the airburst shells and keep them barking as soon as they come off of cooldown. occaisionally I pop the vision flares if im floating and need to find something to kill.

okw truck thinks it has a right to exist? call in a sexton. I never get more than two and usually just the one. get him as close as reasonable and fire away. im relying on firefly/6lber for AT and the firefly isn't cheap. usually 2 firefly by the end.

the only trouble im having is sometimes I have a bit of a lack of ai, but in those cases I usually just get another Vickers, or a centaur is I have the cap room. my goal isn't to beat them in the field so much as bleed them into submission.

this isn't my first choice, but it has been quite fun lately. paired up with a couple usf mates who one at least goes mostly ai centric and its great. 3x OKW and im going arty.

any thoughts/comments/suggestions?

The overall opinion of the community begs to differ.

The overwhelming opinion of wehraboos has always been that allies are OP.

It's harder now that at other times in the games history to win as axis. That doesn't mean the game is so out of balance it's impossible for an axis player/team to win. I've been doing quite well lately as Wehrmacht. Sometimes we get out played. Most of the time we don't. (I don't do 1v1)

I'd argue balance is better now than at most other points in the games history. If you cant deal with a land mattress or calliope how did you ever deal with a katyusha? The pershing is so op how did you ever handle the IS-2? USF has a few more tools in the kit now. Brits do too. They still have glaring weaknesses. Comets are very good too. I will say the cheap smoke on those things screwing with at guns is VERY annoying.

The lefh is better now that it's ever been. never been anything as good or comparable to the stuka dive bomb. still have stuka CAS. still have stuka zu fus. if you can micro the luchs is a monster. the flamer 251 is very potent. Pgrens are very good. mg42 is still the best mg in the game. still have the best lmg in the game on obers. pfus are some of the best and most cost efficient infantry right now. okw gets free AA from flak truck. leig is still very good. pak40 is still very good. stugs are amazing for their price. panthers are still one of the best "tank hunter" in the game, unrivaled durability. panzershreks are the best hand held AT in the game. and of course the real stars of the show, the KT, the JT, the Elefant, and the Tiger. The Tiger isn't what she once was, true enough. TDs tear her apart, which is only right. KTs are freaking beasts. They're super slow so you must be deliberate and careful about pushing. Properly supported there is very little the allies can do about a KT. Now the axis have two units which the allies have absolutely nothing comparable in the heavy TDs. Elefant and Jagdtiger are show stoppers. 320 damage with guaranteed pen at all ranges. If you know what you're doing these things win games. They aren't solo machines. They need support. If you do support them they are uncounterable. Put some riegle mines on the flanks and keep a tank/pak/shreks around with sufficient AI/suppression and watch them weep.


Just because everyone thinks jumping off a bridge is a good idea doesn't make it one.

watching newbs or ai suicide stuff into the minefields on Vielsalm is always enjoyable. unfortunately, that's the only thing I enjoy about that map. Trying to help allies on the other side of the map is a good way to lose infantry. it is very difficult to soft retreat in deep snow and hitting the retreat will send your guys through the minefield. and my goodness that is one long retreat.

it does this constantly to me. I don't think its actually searching. I think it just looks like it. the radar screen cycling and the sound effect are active but the host hasn't entered the queue. It is beyond irritating when deciding whether or not to change a load out.

Im not really saying that zooks on RETs are OP I'm just saying how USFs don't really lose any AI power by getting more AT power. When you get Shreks on pgrens you lose half their DPS making them pretty bad vs infantry whereas USFs and UKFs don't have to put them on expensive infantry to gain some AT power. Just give them to your cheap sappers and RETs.

If we take away zooks/ piats from sappers and RETs then it force Allies to choose between more AT and less AI or more AI and no AT since it'll have to go on their mainline infantry

I'd say that giving RET zooks is comparable to giving pios a flame thrower. It takes a worthless squad and makes it meh at one thing and still worthless for everything else.

I do think along the lines of making a definite choice is good concerning; is this unit going to be ai or at. Pgrens really make you think because they're going to suck at killing infantry if you upgrade them. True enough, that's a much harder and more expensive decision than zooks on RETs. But, it's not exactly like people spam Rear Echelons.... At a certain point, ie every other unit, you do make the choice. Captain is a beast with bars now. So do I make a world killer or put zooks on him and make him crappy against infantry? Rifles are the same.

Wehrmacht is much more severely hindered when it comes to flexibility, but it has everything it needs in most every situation. I've found it much more important to anticipate what units i'll need when with wehr than usf.

The USF mortar is good, but it's not as good as the Wehrmacht mortar. Krupp stahl ja? The problem is in the matchup, as stated by aussie. A mortar is near useless against rifles for those USF players with a pulse. You have to have one to counter the USF mortar though, which hurts as it's manpower for a very limited use (which isn't fighting the damn rifles) and Wehrmacht just sucks on the move which makes the usf mortar seem better. It's team weapons vs no team weapons with plenty of ways to beat team weapons.