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Me in comic con (Portugal) after finishing 2nd place on a LoL torney (Im the one on the right).

Cheers for making a excellent Guide DevM.

I've got one question concerning BAR's: Is it better to have 2 per squad or can you actually get away with 1 per squad?

Well it depends on how you use the squad, generally speaking having one BAR is enough but 2 BARs to run down squads (snipers) is better.

Hey evil Mouse can I get a capping order for Arnhem plox?

Capping order for arnhem is RE caps the high fuel (by first capping the 2 MP points connecting it), first rifles goes for cut off and then "scouting" (get hold of a building or so in the middle and check for your opponent), second rifles and third goes to wherever and opponent is going.

DevM wrote: "while the Paratroopers really aren’t particularly good all around, so I wouldn’t get them."

Can you please explain this?

I thought that the paratroopers were one of the best allround infantry units in the game if they are equipped with LMGs or SMGs.

What I meant by that is that paratroopers aren't as versatile as rifles and the fact that you have to go for a commander that for the most part is pretty bad (P47 ability is the only worth while one) means that you suffer a lot mid game from it. The infantry itself stats wise isn't bad, it's actually pretty good, but they don't offer nearly as much combat options as the rifles do and since rifles got buffed recently for me there's no reason to choose them over rifles.

BO for USF doesnt count as much as for ostheer and OKW, these factions need to decide which unit will be useful right now, well, if ostheer goes for gren spam and USF M20 so it's obvious that M20 will not only bleed on MP but on munis, most important resource for them (much more than fuel in early), they can't counter it so early, they must tech, spend MP and time to get those things up, and still it's not perfect counter (M20 crew got zook for 222 and veh itself smoke -> ostheer needs doc with smoke, and it's even more expensive i think), note that USF doesnt have to build tiers, and they get free BAR/zooks unit when teching which is rewarding too much (yea USF teching actually rewards), best option for ostheer is by going like 1-2 snipers but then USF must be retarded to not counter it with hmm... lets say M20 rush? or later on rifle BAR blob? so snipers are only useful in hard defense, even in base on some maps, they can bleed on MP but can't promise better map control

Ok, so first of all you said "if ostheer goes for gren spam and USF M20 .... they can't counter it so early, they must tech, spend MP and time to get those things up", so USF doesn't need to tech either to get the m20? We are talking about a unit that costs 340 manpower here, depending on the conditions of the game you can get a scout car shortly after the m20 is out which makes a unit so expensive much less effective. "and still it's not perfect counter (M20 crew got zook for 222 and veh itself smoke -> ostheer needs doc with smoke, and it's even more expensive i think)" It's not a perfect counter in the sense that it cant rush in mindlessly and take it out but if you keep it at range it gets the job done pretty well.
"note that USF doesnt have to build tiers, and they get free BAR/zooks unit when teching which is rewarding too much (yea USF teching actually rewards)" Yea they don't and so what, USF teching generally comes in first but the overall strength of those tiers is generally speaking weaker to their counter part and they are heavily relying on getting all those tiers out soon so they can have an answer to everything, while factions like ostheer in just two tiers has an answer to everything. "best option for ostheer is by going like 1-2 snipers but then USF must be retarded to not counter it with hmm... lets say M20 rush? or later on rifle BAR blob? so snipers are only useful in hard defense, even in base on some maps, they can bleed on MP but can't promise better map control" Are you kididng me? USF struggles a lot against snipers, any ostheer player will support their snipers in some way so rushing a m20 in will for sure end up in it being killed, and rifles with BARs is generally speaking one of the only two ways to counter the sniper and even then its hard to pull off against a well microed sniper, and obviously snipers generally mean less map control (you wanted a unit with no weaknesses?) but even then generally speaking because having a sniper out in the field knowing there will be no counter snipe means in many maps capping a sector will mean losing two or three men from a squad which helps in some way ostheer keeping their map control.

you say that Grens costs less to reinforce? ain't grens 30 MP while rifles like 28? also you think that MG is any good? one good flank and it's done, killed or retreat, IMO ostheer MG is worst of its kind, doesnt suppress much (compare Dshka or vickers, they seem to insta pin things)

Yea it is probably the worst of the MGs but it also comes in much earlier than the others and yes I think the MG is good, obviously you dont send it alone so even if a flank is coming its him that has to come to you and not the other way around which means free damage on the way there, also im pretty sure grens are cheaper grens are actually 30 yea thought it was the MG that had that value, either way 2 MP isn't that big of a difference.

you get Puma only to counter enemy vehs, maybe some early med tanks, sure, but it's still a doctrine unit, how many doctrines you know with early access to anti-tank vehicles, none, you are forced to pick a doctrine with puma to counter enemy early non doctrinal vehicle while they can choose which OP heavy tank to get later on, i also used Puma doctrine a lot, but when they get heavy stuff, IS-2 or so, they are useless then and you are left with no late game stuff

Yea and in vCoH tell me how many units WM had to counter the m8 that were mobile? none, was that a problem? no, why? because factions dont need to be mirrored, you don't need to pick the puma exactly, you can pretty much rely on a pak supported by grens and tech to t3 and get that counter. Oh and even if you do pick the puma doctrine you don't need a tiger to counter their mega tanks, you just tech to panthers an support them, they can hold those tanks pretty well (See my ace game against luvnest in the SCC4).

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The point of the guide is to explain how to play the faction better, you dont need a new mega strategy or good tricks to write a guide, it isn't obvious to many people.