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The AAHT CAN suppress using attack ground. I had a situation in which I advanced my infantry into an attack ground of my AAHT and both an enemy squad and my squad got suppressed.

Simply you cannot defeat Soviets with OKW.(at least currently)






Good guide tho I'll try it

This is simply not true, you can easily win fights vs conscripts with volks at range early game, and you will find concripts' equipment becoming obsolete before the volks'
Conscripts:
AT grenades, molotovs, [vet 1] trip wire flares, Hit the dirt [doctrinal], and the PPSH upgrade [doctrinal])
Volks:
inciniary grenade, salvage [doctrinal if thourough], grenade assault [doctrinal], and the Panzerschreck upgrade)
You will rarely get put in a situation as the OKW where you can't access a hard counter to a unit on the field, but your ability to solidify a strong, all-around force early game with capping power is abysmal. This is why you will tend to be in a reactive role against the soviets.
T1:
Clown cars? Early schrecks and 1-2 pupchens!
Penal spam? Get the Kibbelwiggin!
Snipers? Don't worry, It's hard to bleed the okw unless they hit your obers and sturms constantly. Just remember that it's there and try to force retreats if you can.
Sniper spam? decimate them with a fast Luchs.
T2:
2 AT guns or more? try to build support vehicles like the jagdpanzer (or the walking stuka if it gets buffed) instead of agressive ones.
2 MGs or more? Perfect! Use agressive vehicles like the jp4 or luchs and/or indirect fire
General support spam (especially mortars)? Build 2 ISGs. Barrage their mortars at max range. Barrage everything else. They are now dead. 'nuff said.

Shocks? Use MGs strategically to force them to waste munitions. Using your sturmpioneers at a distance, especially behind light/heavy cover and retreating them when they get close will drain the squad of health and men, possibly forcing a retreat.
Guards? They are elite infantry. Easy to deal with. Don't get a luchs and keep your tanks at a distance. They can effectively immobilize your vehicles for a duration of time. Be wary.

Tier three and four are a little more vague and situational and sum up to being different types of AT platforms + obersoldaten.


If you can push the game late enough or get enough fuel, you can use the oberkommando west's wider selection of late game armor to finally force the soviets to react to your decisions. I guess what I'm trying to say is that as long as you adapt to your enemy's strategy instead of trying to always take initiative and be agressive, you're in the clear.

I hope that cleared some things up/gave some insights.

This build order always puts me over popcap as the OKW. I have realized that sometimes not rebuilding certain squads when I lose them, intentionally getting my crew weapons wiped (give them to the cheesetruppen) or skipping units (like the second pioneer squad or the IR halftrack) for the sake fast tech when I have most of the map is necessary for this build. I also think that the derp cannon that you get with the fortifications doctrine is situational (positionting and counter-ability based on units on feild and map orientation).
I like playing this on 3v3 because then you have ettlebruck station, where you can shut down all armor and infantry pretty easy and then get a fast vehicle to deal with the forced mortar spam. I have not tried this against the british, but I bet the mortar emplacement is going to be a fast and easy counter to the strat.

First of all soviets are better than brits in 1v1. The order of factions is currently like this in this game mode:
USF > OST > SOV > UKF > OKW
but what you need to know is that it is all by a very small margin and in most cases it doesnt matter unless its okw vs usf. Thats why sometimes when you face a better player you may feel the order is different. This basically means you can still win vs everybody.

To answer your hidden question: everybody is playing usf as that faction was said to be bad for many patches and it got buffed from one to another. What we are seeing not is many players realising usf are much better than they thought so they are playing a lot of it now.

I have not noticed this 'okw is on the bottom' trend in 1v1. I also think that although the Americans got buffed, it is just to bring the faction in line with the others. The reason that sometimes ost vs usf can be so hard is that ostheer core infantry are grenadiers, and they are weak against rifles early game.

Dude with this build you could play only using your feet and win (I now have to test this claim). Great guide. I also want to say that this works fine against wehrmacht as well and can be played AT even in 3v3 (When I play this in automatch, I have 2v2 and 3v3 checked off). It even works 3v3 against all wehrmacht! I bet it even works 4v4 against all wehrmacht being played with one's feet!