Profile of Swift

Well, I am a really casual player. My Wehrmacht level is around 970-990, Rank 8 for 1v1

Ok. I recommend you upload a replay to the site at some point soon and ask for a review. If you get a decent length game that you lose then a strategist should be able to isolate the problems you have in your play.

Other than that, keep going, don't give up. The more you play, the better you get.

I hate to be the one to ask, but what's your playercard look like? It would give us an idea of who your opponents are.

I guess the most obvious answer would be to not skip t1

A lot of people seem to favor going t2 rather than one for the luchs and while it can also be a very good option, bear in mind that this will severely delay your medium tanks which already come out much later than other factions. Furthermore it will make you quite reliant on medkits which will cost a lot of munitions in the long run.

My advice would be that you should not necessarily go t2 by default, but consider your options as you see your opponents opening. Also there is no shame in backteching to t1 later in the game if you become in need of indirect fire.

Unless you can catch an enemy mortar, the lieg is basically your only option for real indirect fire as OKW.

I think he's talking about Ostheer Mechanised Assault doctrine.

First rule of Mechanised Assault is to know what the doctrine provides that you can rely on without tech. Going only for Assault Grenadiers is a poor choice, so it's always worth building tier 1 for three Grens, possibly a mortar if need be. Assgrens are a unit that will complement a strategy, not dominate it, so if you're on a very urban map they can help, but don't expect them to do too well if you try spamming them.

Usually, Mechanised Assault players will go for tier 1 for baseline infantry, then tier 2 for paks and other light vehicles, and complement it with the pgren halftrack if needed or wait for Stug Es.

With the Tiger being 13cps, you'll struggle to just sit out and wait for it with your Stug Es. I'd always recommend building your tier three tech for more robust Stug Gs and the occasional P4. The Tiger call in will be expected, so don't be surprised if an enemy is prepared to deal with it. Your strategy will vary depending on what map you choose, and it's entirely possible that you decide going all the way to tier 4 for a panzerwerfer is better, or get one after your tiger.

But I must stress, don't skip tier one, because Mechanised Assault is very weak if you rely only on the call ins.

This is clearly a learn to play issue. Please use the subforums indicated by Maud'Dib if you want to bring up these issues.

Can't lock this from Steam overlay, if someone would kindly do it for me.

"Osttruppen
We find that the early game of the Osttruppen doctrine is generally too overbearing for most players, especially in light of the other changes to the doctrine. To reduce this early game pressure and scaling of Osttruppen squads with picked up weapons, we are implementing the following changes:
Max slots limited to 1
Cooldown between successive Osttruppen squads increased from 12 to 35"

I hate this change so much primarily due to the reasoning behind it.

Second, tripling the cooldown is rather harsh and honestly makes getting ostruppen pointless in my opinion, the whole point of the doctrine was to mass produce them, but they fall off very quickly once mainline infantry from the enemy team has come out.

Most of the time people struggle with ostruppen because they're caught by surprise by the doctrine being picked despite seeing it in the load out and forget how fast they can cap the map if you neglect them.

See that's what I thought at first, but I have a feeling it's going to make Ostruppen in 1v1 a little less cancerous and force people going for it to adapt their play some more. E.g. they can't just keep clicking the call in button, if they've got manpower to spend and no unit to call in it might encourage them to diversify their starts as well as slow down the initial (quite intense) pressure Ostruppen exert. Maybe we'll see them more used in pairs perhaps alongside Grens or other team weapons.

I think it could be interesting. What I don't like is the slot limitation, especially given the changes to dropped weapons for Ostruppen there's really no need to punish them so hard.