Profile of Alexzandvar

You cant begin an argument with the premise that CAS has a tradeoff.

CAS has zero tradeoff and very little risk

Ostheer relies heavily on armor support later into the game were 1 shot buggery increases by a significant amount of hordes of Rifles start roaming the map.

If you want to use the CAS abilities to their fullest "OP" extent you need to use the fuel to munition conversion so you won't have very much armor at all. This of course is talking about a lower game mode scenario, in 3's and 4's like I said the trade offs simply aren't there because your team mates can support you.

http://www.coh2.org/replay/35088/2v2-comm-and-me-versus-memeindustry-and-lmg-company

This is how CAS normally goes down in 2's, lots of infantry, very little tanks.

lol.

There is simply no reason for the shrek to be so powerful when in general axis are fighting lighter armor. I have no problem beating them it is just annoying why relic need to make things easy for axis and not much micro or intelligence needed. For example the magic smoke they get that is a get out of jail free card compared to the shitty smoke the sherman get that can't be fired on top of your vehicle and has a delay which makes it useless most the time to try and save your tank.

It really does make it rewarding winning as allies in 4v4 although.

It depends on which Shrek your talking about. Giving Shreks to Pgrens unless you using Luftwaffe Supply, Close Air Support, or Oustruppen is always a bad idea because Pgrens are very easy to 1 shot and you need to stick them in the range of a tank to shoot the shreks. In that case a very large amount of micro is require to keep the Pgrens alive.

Volk shreks are easy to use by design since OKW doesn't have very plentiful and mobile AT (Volk shreks also cost a lot, with the income reduction accounted for they cost 112 munitions) because they lack of the fuel to get lots of Vehicles and the Rackten only has 50 range. If you opponent is spamming Volks you can do a couple of things:

1. Spam Harder; Volks have pathetic performance versus enemy infantry so get stuff like 1919 Rifles/Para's or Shocks which will tear them apart.

2. Crushing; this is a big thing because OKW lacks any kind of snare so he can't stop you from just crushing all his infantry without retreating. USF has the best vehicles for this but both the T34 variants can do it. Remember to make tight turns without stopping. And even if you don't crush them pushing Volks stops their shreks from firing meaning you can employ this tactic using non-heavy crush armor.

3. Artillery; Katyusha's and other artillery will annihilate Volks blobs, as well as blobs in general.

4. Kiting; Shreks have 35 range so you can kite them with basically any vehicle. This is best done with the USF AA HT since it also suppresses the infantry making them unable to move at top speed. With even better micro you can do with with duel MHC's and wipe squads like there's no tomorrow.

5. Overpower them; A good OKW player will volley fire his Shreks at 1 tank to kill it as fast as possible, a bad one will just let his shreks hit what ever. When facing a good player make sure to focus fire his Volk squads 1 at a time instead of shooting at different ones. Turn his tactics against him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5ptvd6NQac

Or just employ none of those tactics and charge blindly into enemy lines with TD's meant to engage at range.

not in late game 3v3+ where both sides aren't losing stuffs. everybody stock up fuel and normally, the only way to spend them is when you need to replace your loses. but with amazing CAS commander, you can pin, at strafe, stuka bomb all day everyday baby.



ha! dodge AI strafe with infantry? you know the aoe suppression reaches out to units 30m away right? what kind of brain dead CAS user are we talking about?

In a competitive 3v3 or 4v4 (not a stomp were one team is easily beating the others), and both sides are burning resources the CAS player will be relying on his team mates to make up the difference for the CAS player not having any armor. If your CAS team mate is good he will be focusing on getting Pak40's along with a lot of LMG grens supported by Shrek'd Pgrens.

The power of CAS in team games is the conversion of fuel to munitions letting you spam Ostheers very powerful AT mines, denying territory with S-mines, and getting lots of Bunkers early on to stop enemy pushes.

The trade off is your pushing power is very limited. Ostheer infantry is fragile and extremely vulnerable to area denial stuff like Katyusha's, mines, demo's and other explosives. So you have to rely on your team mates to support you.

This of course means the trade offs in 3's and 4's for CAS are limited because you have your team mates helping you, in 1's and 2's when using CAS you need to be very much on top of your game.

And lol when people complain about the pin strafe it's like a 100% for sure acknowledgement they love to blob and are mad that they keep providing perfect targets for the strafe.

The AI strafe is much less effective if you spread your squads, the reason I love CAS so much is it lets you punish filthy USF blobbers so much.

Hmm, that's interesting, does aura-based buff stack?

Does this possibly means Sturmoffizer A buffing Sturmoffizer B too?
Having two, or even three Sturmoffizer / Command panther / Commmand P4, does the aura buff stack?

If no, the second OKW should get a normal panther, because normal panther having even more insane vet bonus.

Command PIV's aura stacks with the Command Panthers and the Sturmoffizers (and the Artillery Field Officers to!).

Vet 5 Commander Panther buffs are very good, mostly because they aren't supposed to be given to Infantry!

The issue with LMG's is that there is no down side. When you have lots of PPsh's you can't do much at long range, that's a disadvantage, when you have lots of Shreks and Zooks you will be lacking for Anti infantry.

With LMG's you have superb long range DPS, and most of the units that can get LMG's have good short range DPS to. And on many maps there is so little cover you can't get into short range of the LMG units anyway.

This doesn't even touch on how broken and overpowered defensive stance is considering everyone uses it offensively