Profile of Verikus

I feel in all 3 of these games Gaip would have had a lot better results with M8. Maybe grenades/early zooks too (well after the first game because Zark getting the flacktrack was going to happen no matter what)

I love the OKW half track. Surprised he never went AB to counter the gren spam.

Great set of games though, well played by all. Good tutorial on why to build mine sweepers mid-game

That was BEAUTIFUL. Good example of over confidence losing you a game.

The "kill yourself" at the end sent me out of my chair laughing. The multiple ways you punished that OKW blob just made me soooo happy, and aside from the AI giving away a flacktrack it could have done worse lololol

So first thing is your build order. I never go for 2nd RE at the start, but if it works for you then keep doing it; HOWEVER, failing to upgrade RE's with bazooka's really hinders them later.

Retreat immediately when you know you'll lose a fight early game. If it's 1 rifle and an RE vs Strums + anything once strums get in range it's over, so move back and lure them into bad cover or just pull back. The more MP you're not spending reinforcing the closer you are to getting more stuff out.

Don't shoot at trucks unless you can kill it for sure, put the pain on the squads, if they don't go Medic truck then they'll have to use muni's to heal (for OKW)

If you build a stuart keep it alive, the special abilities later can help you kill big tanks if used correctly, otherwise go LT for the anti-infantry potential and fuel saving (you can just use the saved fuel on bazookas for 1 RE squad/Rifle squad)

Never go dual shermans in 1v1, always go Sherman and jackson or M8 and Jackson. Honestly I find the M8 to murder OKW and rely on it heavily.

Use the ambulance a little more aggressively, have major near by (but not RIGHT next to it) for retreat point (somewhere safe but close to the front). You like to play aggressively, this will help you push them back.

If you have 4 rifles/3 rifles with officer you NEED to have an ambulance, riflemen need to be full health to be aggressive, so earlier ambulance is better.

Never attack flak HQ truck without call in arty and jacksons ready, don't risk too much killing them. Focus on other parts of the map and don't get frustrated with it.

Keep your guys together (near each other to support, never ever blob) and don't spend so much time in the early game building wire unless you're good at timing it to where it won't hinder your point capping.

Any enemies in buildings regularly/any issue with MGs EVER, research grenades. They will save your life. Remember to smoke MGs and rush them, but don't over extend the push.

LMGs won't win games, only get 1-2 squads mid game with them, you should be using combined arms and burning through your munis in other ways, don't neglect zooks on RE squads.

I have a replay fighting a very similar opponent where I used a lot of these tips (never got nades, no MGs/building issues), just ask and I'll upload it.

Honestly if you're OKW and you see blobs you cannot afford to neglect indirect fire. If you go repair station you have the killer walking stuka, that didn't come out til the 40 minute mark. Probably would have been less than a 40 minute game if you guys got that out earlier

Would have been a huge asset to have the support gun too. It is the closest you get as OKW to having a sniper, AND it causes suppression quick.

The descision to get a jagpanzer out when you saw nothing but infantry that early was strange to me, obers are MUCH better counters to guards than luchs II as well.

the ISU's would not have come out as often or have been a big threat if you could have kept the blobs down with indirect fire. Whoever was top really should have built the flack building to help lock down the southern/middle part of the map. It is a huge area denial asset and would have helped stop the PPSH cons spam you were facing.

On both sides it turned into blob vs blob and that's not going to work out well. There were a lot of instances where you could tell squads were being ordered 4-6 at a time, leaving most of them sitting in open/red cover.

Other big question was when fighting mass infantry and a few tanks (even scary ISU's) why not just go KT instead of the JT? KT would have covered almost all your missing AI needs, and still has enough AT to scare off heavy tanks.

Volks blobs will ALWAYS loose to equal size guards/rifleman blobs. Best bet is to play smart and punish the blobs with indirect fire, more grenade usage, and longer range infantry from cover (like obers).