Profile of turbotortoise

Since there seemed to be a consensus with the feedback on your first replay I decided I would actually take the second.

Although I sympathise with you to a point since both WFA have historically struggled to fend off sieges, and break garrisons in particular; lapses in concentration, letting smaller tactical errors compound themselves, and an incorrect strategy lost you this match. I hope I can illuminate some of your mistakes and help iron out your game. It takes a lot of courage to put your play on display so, I thank you for that. Before I begin I wish to remind you that mistakes are not reflective of character and you can improve if you want to. Now, let’s begin:

It may come as a slight shock, but this match may have been decided as early as 2:36 in. You reacted well to the Maxims by beating your opponent to the garrison, but you lost the rest of the engagement and consequently ALL of your natural resources, failing to recapture them until it was meaningless by being far faaaar too lethargic reacting to this first engagement. You had it setup for a perfect flank with both MG’s aimed at your garrison, but you waited around with 2/3rds of your army not fighting until you lost half of your Sturm squad and all of its damage output, forcing you back. The solution here is simple, you have to be quicker. You have to get that Volks squad moving, and maybe even consider pulling your Kubel off capping duties to try and rout him. Maxim’s are not very good when they have to advance, you can always back cap so long as you hold a front line, manpower income isn't determined by territory. By losing that ground right off the bat you made things very hard for yourself. Imagine what the game would have been like if instead you wiped an entire squad, and forced the other one to retreat with 2 or 3 squad members?

Although an uphill battle after that point it was not hopeless, but you let that bad decision snowball and you tried to remedy that mistake with a series of very poor decisions:

1st by walking your Volks back into their line of fire unsupported after you lost your garrison and deciding not to fight with your Kubel, all you accomplished was losing ground instead of either regrouping and digging in and buying yourself some time against the advancing MG’s. Perhaps a better solution would have been falling back, attempting to ambush a Maxim that tried to capture your fuel, or using the Kubel more effectively to scout cones of fire, waiting for them to advance, and maybe catching one unawares while you reinforced would have been a better decision.

You may also want to consider generally using cover more as well instead of instantly retreating the second a unit is suppressed. This happened to you in the 4th minute when you faced a capping Maxim 1on1 and fell back instantly. Although this is OK regarding manpower bleed, please remember that in heavy cover not only does it take far longer to suppress and pin your units, your opponent is wasting precious time being stationary fighting you, which is great when your opponent could be using that to get defensive units (Maxims) into better entrenched offensive positions IE, slowing down or even avoiding the pin. If you have the assets, it also gives you time to formulate a solution and counter attack before he repositions.

2nd, although your tactical response albeit a poor one was not catastrophic, I’m afraid your strategic response to the Maxims by constructing the MechReg and, presumably trying to requisition a Luchs was however. The Luchs isn’t a bad choice hypothetically but given your position, it was very much the wrong decision.

The key element of strategy is timing; you MUST think a step ahead and consider that. In this moment you have been routed from the field, and you are thinking about a way to get your fuel back facing an uphill battle against possibly entrenched MG’s. Your fuel income at least for the next 5 minutes or so is at +4, even with a small degree of variance you’re looking at about ~12 minutes just for a Luchs at that projected rate. Your opponent on the other hand will be bringing out T34/85’s by that time. Instead, even a single LeIG and/or another squad would have provided you far more utility when you needed it.

I also question just how much MechReg helped you at all. Pumas are a poor counter to a T34. if you don’t have the map control vehicles do not make sense.

To reiterate: be honest with yourself when evaluating your tactical situation and the resources you have at your disposal NOW and THEN try to come up with the best solution which balances current situation and future projections.

I’m going to stray from the chronology a little now because a couple of future engagements played out the same way, which really stuck with me. Like I mentioned earlier, you can make your life easier by thinking ahead when considering the strategical portion. You should also do the same with the tactical elements. If I may suggest, ask yourself these questions: what do you want to accomplish, what does that get me/is it worth it (what does that accomplish strategically), how am I actually going to do it, and do I have the elements I require to execute that plan. If ANY of those steps are unclear, consider another solution. When you are charging a Kubel into a base MG, (why get it in the first place?) or a single Volks squad into a garrisoned Maxim, chucking an incendiary grenade and instantly retreating, you aren’t achieving any sort of strategic objective, you’re wasting precious time and resources. You have to be able to achieve something with every fight, every unit must have a purpose; chiefly fighting for and securing territory, if you cannot do that, it probably is not worth engaging/requisitioning. Concentrate your forces, scout, assess, formulate, win.

This isn’t something you are entirely unfamiliar with you just need to be doing it more often. Instead, consider how you played with the Fallschrimjagers, your thought process was perfect. You identified where an MG was situated, and instantly came up with a plan to combat it by drawing its fire with a Volks squad, and executing a text book flank in <10 seconds, perfect.

Around this time although the game was pretty much out of reach you really made some questionable decisions with your floating manpower, which is why I remind you that you must be careful letting one bad decision snowball out of control. ~9 minutes, requisitioning ANOTHER Kubel when the first provided you very little equity, and an MG34 I’m not sure-- what are you actually going to achieve? If your opponent decided to get a T70, he could have ended you far earlier. This of course is rectified by thinking ahead strategically-- asking yourself what tier makes the most sense.

As a final note, minesweepers, just get them; particularly if your opponent has already showed his hand and has demonstrated he has planted at least one demo charge. You were lucky the first time to only lose a few squad members, losing an entire Volks squad WITH a sweeper afterwards is criminal.

I hope I wasn't too harsh, I wish I could have focused more on some elements of positive play but, on the bright side, that does give us a lot more material to work with diagnostically. Please pick yourself up, examine your play, and I'm sure you'll be able to achieve what you want. I believe in you, and you deserve it.

gl,
turbo x

The cynicism is for real. Is the prize awarded for accounts registered, or for playing?

This seems like nothing but a ploy for SEGA junk mail. :/

And on teamgames as well.

The whole thing with simcity + Cancer commander is that it should require more player input.

-Mortar pits should had less auto attack range, but improve their barrage, cooldown specially.
-From memory, the auto repair dudes can't be targeted which makes it annoying to kill the Forward assembly. Let it spawn 0/1 popcap engineers instead. They should behave similarly to medics which "chase for repairs".

If the Bofors emplacement couldn't auto-attack, required player targeting and that "ability" locked it to a target, had cooldown etc, and we removed brace and gave it a larger health pool instead, would that be a better unit design conceptually?

Bofors should have an arc, like MGs, that requires player input to turn.

or something like this instead of a single targeted ability.

Wada,

The structure of your argument is wrong. You cannot use single subjective examples to make an argument about a system's "supposed" wide standard deviation or in game variance...

Take a closer look at probability and you'll find that the systems are actually very intricate and predictable. Maybe the game structure does not bear this out, ie: you only get 3-6 squads in a game, 1-3 tanks, so the number of engagements is lower meaning a normalized/weighted mean with a low standard of error cannot develop, but that's not evidence enough to lambast the entire system or lament its implication.

It's like a low scoring sport, it just means the chances created and points or whatever measure you chose to determine a winner become more meaningful. It's the nature of the game, I don't think it's something you can fiddle with without destroying it.

Cover, especially red cover needs to have more impact, particularly open fields.

Don't punish "blobbing", instead incentive clever defensive positioning, and incisive tactical timing during attacks. This was "generally" the case in vCoH, heroic charge aside.