Profile of Hawking

Infantry being able to crawl up to any suppression platform and kill it with frangible explosives is insanely dumb considering throwing objects tends to be hard when your face is in the dirt.

This, basically, except most Infantry squads don't carry ordinance big enough to damage a teching facility of a faction, or to wipe a machine-gun it's crawled into in one fell sweep, especially a squad that has six models. I think Ash's suggestion would be a good way the handle the matter. Like I said in the OP, I don't think Penals are overpowered in any sense of the word, I think the way they currently play encourages a lolsatchel mentality instead of being forced to use them smartly.

Now, I should, first, mention that this is not an advisable tactic.
If the other person gets lucky and knows what they're doing, and, should RNG favour them, it might not work.

But man, am I tired of Penal blobs crawling up to my Schwerer headquarters and lobbing satchel charges at it. Just came off of a 1v1 on Langreskaya in which this dude decided that three Penal squads was an appropriate build. I saw them coming, thankfully, and managed to lay down suppression from an MG34 and my Schwerer HQ, but, goddamn, they did an Olympic 100 meter crawl over to the Panzer HQ, lobbed Satchels at their feet and sprinted off

Needless to say, it nearly worked. Nearly. (Thank you based Luchs, remover of blobs)

Satchel charges should be a resource that is to be used sparingly and carefully, rewarding good micro and flanking. I don't think it's appropriate for Penals to be able to lob Satchel Charges while suppressed, let alone at full range after crawling half a zone directly at the thing suppressing them(which is a whole other thread on 'nades v suppression, which has already been discussed to death.)

There's a reason Oorah is a veterancy perk, Penals aren't meant to do the same job as Cons right off the bat. Would it be a good idea to give Penals less suppression resistance, or, get them pinned more easily to better befit and encourage them as a flanking/micro intensive unit as opposed to the Super Stalin Satchel Squad?

Got an invite.
Give me a shout if you're interested in some games once it goes live.

Played last night.
Thought patch had already dropped.
Got OKW Meta blobbed.
Was sad.

Download started this morning.
I realised my stupidity and cried.

Fabulous patch, all things considered, looking forward to playing the new maps.

Really good game!

But 3 King Tigers? 4 Trucks? Starved faction?

Let's start from the beggining.

Once you knew there is med truck (soft retreat of 2 SP when 1min later they came back) you should went for Ambulance as a counter instead of another rifle. This led us to the moment when you had 6 units and you could not push back 3 OKW units from the graveyard. Ambulance behind your troops could do wonders.

You should know better when to retreat.
After one Volks nade, you have not lost any model except 70-80% of HP. It was obvious that with such low HP you wont do anything. Retreat to base (or soft retreat to ambu you should buy before) yet you tried to stand agasint SP. So in fact you recevied RNG nade that did not kill any model yet you did not use it and you lost 4 model to SP.

Very good use of 57mm to get Schwerer yet you relied on scatter. Few meter and you might took it down but that SP repair speed

Once again you did not use retreat button when Obers were wiping your Path and MG(?)

You also forgot to make retreat point from Major once he was in right place. You did it later.

Jackson. Why Jackson first? There was only PzIV that was killed by KV1. Your Jackson did not do anything for few mins. Then you called Scott. In this case should be opposite. Scott first.
There was no target for Jackson but plenty for Scott.
You also called second Jackson when you had already 2 SU85s and 1 Jackson facing only 1 Panther.
In fact this second Jackson was able to shoot 1-3 times at KT (bounced) so again, Scott would be better option to drain MP.

But let's me honet here, B4 saved the day and provde advantage. You were wiped and you were bleeding really hard until few shots of B4 that provide you space to push a bit a take position.
Your teammate again saved the day with demo.

At one point he had 20+k dmg while you only 10k dmg.

Your RE were standing and doing nothing while his KV1 was badly damaged in a base.

It's not easy to stand agasint pure OKW meta on such little space.
Like I said, try to retreat faster. There is no need to stand agasint Obers with Pathfinders. It's just MP drain. It's better to retreat instead of losing few models and then retreat.

Nevertheless, very good game. I hope I helped you a bit

All great feedback, thank you. We were on VOIP together and, I will admit, I was a bit distracted during the game due to the delicious Chinese food that had snuck its way onto my desk, hence why there was a fair amount of laziness on my part(being the retreating and unit preservation, I promise I know better!) As for the Jackson, the fog of war was a little deceptive at the time, either that or I was just seeing things, and then promptly forgot about the poor TD, which was silly of me. Thankfully Brohan was more on the ball with his Korean level micro skills.


But yes, all valuable advice, thank you!