Profile of JibberJabberJobber

You almost had him! I think you could've won if you had taken out the second Repair Station and not lost your AT gun. Here are a few tips for the next time you face this:

- Keep your sniper alive at any cost, you need it for spotting later on for your AT guns. Without spotting, you have to attack ground or close in, which are both bad options. It's also the only counter to a well-positioned Vickers, besides mortar smoke. I advise remaking the Sniper if you lose it.

- Instead of a mortar, I find it's better to get a 222 or 250. Don't use it for attacking the emplacements, but to keep control over your flanks. No AEC means your light vehicle can stop any flank harassment from your opponent, freeing up your infantry.

- Use your infantry defensively and allow your double AT gun + Sniper combo to damage the emplacements, this should be the core of your strategy. You don't want to bleed manpower unnecessarily and you don't ever want squads retreating through the Bofors' firing arc. Make sure you're prepared for counterattacks against your AT guns, make a reinforce bunker to fall back to and always keep some Pioneers close incase you have to recrew them. With a proper defensive line and a light vehicle, your opponent should not be able to take your AT guns incase they get decrewed.

- Tech for a Stug or Panzer 4 first. Don't use it against the Bofors or the Mortar Pit initially, but target the Repair Stations behind them. Repair Stations die in 3 edit: 4 shots and cost 400 (!) manpower to construct. Your opponent will likely have 1 or 2 AT guns by this time, so make sure to flank with your tank or distract/harass the AT guns, so you can take the stations out before taking serious damage. Without them, your opponent will be completely on the defensive, having to manually repair the emplacements with his squads or be unable to sustain the damage following each of your successive attacks.

- If you can't find any openings with your Stug or Panzer 4, it's better to tech to T4 and get a Panther and a Pwerfer. The Panther will fare much better against AT gun walls and any tank follow up the UKF player decides to do. Pwerfers are terrible against (braced) emplacements, but they can devastate the Repair Stations and AT gun wall of your opponent. You could also use them to bait a brace, if you can follow up with an attack or off-map strike.

- It's very risky to commit to a full base attack. Only use it as a last resort. It's however a smart idea to do a decoy attack on his base. Use a single tank with some support to prod at his base bunkers and buildings. Your opponent will have to react by sending infantry and AT to respond, exposing his emplacements in the meantime.

Hope this helps!

I have saved games, that I only save because of this reason alone. To show people how AWFUL the game was designed. A game that comes to mind, one game this comet tank didn't move. Just sat there shooting at other German tanks, this Comet tank missed ALL six shots before being killed, SIX times! SIX! One, miss. Two miss. Three miss. Four miss. Five miss. Six miss.!!! Then blew up by two PANZER 4's. Yes PAZER 4's!!!

If you can't deal with RNG, then this is not the type of game for you.

Here you can see how accuracy works: CoH2 Vehicle Mechanics
Here you can find target sizes and accuracy values for vehicles: coh2db.com/stats

Comet has a higher chance to hit a Panzer 4 than the other way around.

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Also DevmGOD

It´s also pretty funny that the last change to it was reducing the crew to 5.

My idea would be to increase crew back to 6 to bring it in line with any other Soviet team weapon and allow it to scale into late game.

The original intent was to let the 120mm decrew at 1 men, but that was deemed impossible, so they lowered the crew to 5 men instead:

"The 120mm is losing a member of its crew to [...] compensate for its ability to operate at one man."

I mean I just had a game with absolutely zero MP bleed in first 8 minutes.

There's your problem, low amount of combat in the early game means late CP's.

Here's how I make use of Infantry Doctrine in 1v1:

- I make 4 Grens and skip MG42. Infantry spam means a lot of early fighting so you get CP's fast.
- Research Battlephase 1 and make 250.
- Once the 250 is out I have around 1,5CP, so I upgrade the lowest health Gren with an LMG42 and put it in the 250. I personally find this much safer than a Flamethrower Pioneer, cause you can faust and stay at range. Low health of a squad matters little when inside a halftrack. It's better not to upgrade a vetted Grenadier with the LMG, so you're assured to get free med kits later on.
- At around the 6 minute mark I should have enough CP's for the 5 men upgrade. I play very aggressive to get it this early.
- I don't retreat 5 men Grenadiers that are on the frontline to reinforce, this wastes too much momentum. The G43, lower RA and cooldown and free healing already improve their capabilities, even without the 5th man.
- I generally skip the med bunker until all my Grenadiers are upgraded and just use the free medkits to heal my troops. There's actually a glitch that allows you to use the med kit ability multiple times after each other, which can help. Saves some munitions for the high upgrade cost.
- Now I get a Panzergrenadier squad to replace the LMG Grenadier in the 250 and potentially get Schrecks on them later on (I try to avoid the latter though, unless absolutely necessary).
- What I do after this depends on the match. It's either T2 skip with Pgrens or T2 if I need the 222.

Lately I've been experimenting with triple Grenadiers into early Panzergrenadiers. It's a slight variation that plays out a bit differently. The smoke grenade and mark target that comes with the Panzergrenadier upgrade makes them very potent, like Axis Shocktroopers. The ability to repair is a bit lackluster, so I only use it while my Panzergrenadiers are capping or reinforcing/healing in base.

Bulletins that help:
- +3% accuracy for Grenadiers. If your opponent doesn't have this one equipped, you already have a 6% accuracy advantage. This is a big difference in dps, which is what makes this bulletin crucial.
- -10% buildtime for infantry. This also affects reinforce time, which becomes a big factor at 5 men.
- +7% faust range bulletin. This is an absolute must, cause you're often relying on Fausts to skip T2 and rush P4/Ostwind after the 250.