Profile of Butcher

In general your micro is good. I noticed only smaller mistakes.

- You and your mate split up on Rails and metal. This is always bad in 2vs2s but especially on this map. It´s much better to try to grab one fuel point and hopefully both ammo points (with your combined force) at the same time while the opponents split.

- You should use Skype/ Team Speak. You are too busy typing.

- At 4:03 you pack up the MG again while Sturmpioniers are running through its arc. You might have been able to get a further model or even wipe with lucky rng if you had let it there.

- At around 5:35 you have two infantry sections capping the fuel point. While they are sitting around you could have built a sandbag close to the "flag" so the sandbags only work in one direction. Usually helps. Especially against that Kübelwagen harrasing you while building the trench later.

- At 6:45 unnecessary reposition of an MG again. You are moving it in closer against a force while you should keep it at range.

- At 16:00 you are floating 430 munitions. Planting mines would have helped versus the troops engaging your emplacements. Or Bren upgrades for your infantry. Brens are the Best MG upgrade in the game.

--> Be a bit more conservative with your MGs, watch your ressources and get up better communication/ teamwork.

I´m not asking for a huge Panther buff. But what does not go into my head is that OKW gets an actually slightly better Panther than Ostheer with iirc a slightly better rate of fire and better performing MGs. Giving those stats to the Ostheer Panther would be sufficient. It arrives later after all.

I´m not reading through four sides of text. Here is why I hate the Bofors or emplcaments in general. You can´t look at the Bofors in a vacuum as it´s so cheap and usually accompanied by a mortar pit. Thus I´ll take a look at the all deciding part. Early in the game a mortar pit and a Bofors have been set up.

Let´s take a look at the Ostheer player who wants to counter these emplacements:

- He sees his mortar getting shot to bits by the mortar pit. He can´t sustain fire.
- Flamethrowers are killed by the Bofors in one salvo.
- Paks get shot to bits by the mortar-pit or Bofors barrage.
- The emplacements can´t/mustn´t be ignored on most maps. They restrict moving around the flanks also. Best examples being Semoiski, Trois Ponts, Road to Charkov.
- You have to try to force a brace with artillery, move in with flamethrower infantry and hope that there is no 2nd Bofors and or IS picking you off. This is near to impossible.
- There is no bleed on the British player for using emplacements while Axis infantry drops like flies. After some engagements the Axis player has bled out and lost the manpower/ most likely also the fuel-race.

Meanwhile the Brit player:

- Presses the brace button.
- Klicks where the Bofors barrage should fire.

^Please note the horrendous skill gap between the Ostheer and Brit player.

The Churchill should get armor values in between that of a Tiger and IS-2. The health pool should go down to that of other heavy tanks. I don´t like that there is no reward for flanking and circling it with mediums as it takes way too many shots to finish. Meanwhile most guns go through the frontal armor. Thus smart usage of the Churchill isn´t rewarded nor is bad usage punished. I think it´s rather boring.

I agree on the Panther not serving any purpose.

The slow rate of fire makes it second choice versus mediums. StuGs do it better. Not only per cost but also by sheer damage output.

I would be okay with that. But that leaves the Panther with the solemn purpose of countering heavy tanks. And those should be the KV-1, KV-2,KV-8, Churchill, AVRE, Croc, IS-2, ISU-152 (,Pershing).

But: The StuG still handles those pretty good. Most of them even better due to sufficient penetration and better rof. Thus this is also not a reason to go Panthers. Panthers perform actually worse on some of those heavies. The Churchill, Croc and AVRE with their high health pool are almost immune to the slow firing Panther. Those and the KVs aren´t that heavily armored as one wouldn´t use a StuG. This effectively leaves two units the Panther can arguably counter better than StuGs and that only by a margin: The IS-2 and the ISU-152. Conclusion: Not worth building.