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As someone who hasn't played CoH2 since 2015, will this guide catch me up on the most popular commanders in the game?

I can tell that there are a few commanders not listed in the guide but I don't know if I should worry about it too much. There's so many it's a bit overwhelming!

Any suggestions for catching up?

No, this guide is very outdated, more than 50% is wrong.

Here's a quick sum-up of what you want:

Ostheer: A commander that provides an alternative to LMG Grenadiers like either Osttruppen commander, either Assault Grenadier commander, Infantry Doctrine or Jaeger Infantry Doctrine.

Soviets: Preferably a commander that provides early AT like Guards or the M-42, but at least provides strong anti-infantry like Shocks, Guards, Dshk's or the weapon crate drop from Airborne.

OKW: A commander that has either Panzerfusiliers for early snare, Jaeger Light Infantry for campy T1 play, Fallschirmjagers for harder snowballing or 221 if you're a good light vehicle player.

USF: Don't really need a commander as much, so you see more variety. Mechanized is good for applying lots of early pressure while still being strong late, Heavy Cavalry is for a more conservative safe style of play but with the best late game, Recon Support is for campy play with Pack Howitzers. Other good commanders are Urban Assault, the 1919 doctrines and - solely for the AT gun - Airborne.

Brits: Valentine doctrine is heavily favored amongst most players. Otherwise pick a commander that provides the utility you want or try Lend Lease for the Assault Sections.

Very exhausting match with the upperhand changing all the time, mines were eventually the deciding factor.

No idea who's smurf this is, he's from the UK and had an unorthodox commander pick, but it's not Borobadger or Scoped.

This depends on the position of cover and model spread.

Example:
- Squad in the open might have only 1-2 models firing at max range.
- Squad in slanted cover might have only half the squad firing at max range.

Autohotkey scripts will never be flexible enough to be considered cheating on a competitive level.

Take reinforcing with 1 click for example:
- You don't always want to be reinforcing all squads, sometimes conserving manpower to make another unit while only reinforcing an important elite squad is a better course of action.
- If you do want to reinforce all squads, how can you be sure you had enough manpower to do so with 1 click without checking each squad? Maybe one squad ends up with 1 model not being reinforced because of this, so you have to reinforce it manually anyway.

What's important is to not let reinforcing distract you from the battlefield by having to move the camera to your base. You can do this without a script:
1. Open tacmap
2. Drag-select all units in base sector
3. Close tacmap
4. Tab through each squad you have to reinforce and send all full health squads out of the base.

You can do all this without keeping your eyes from an important engagement, you'Il only select the squads in your base and have complete control over which squads you want to reinforce. In this game you don't have to do allot of actions to be good and managing where you're focusing your attention will have much more impact.

The amount they miss seems exaggerated, because they just don't shoot that often compared to zooks.

The trick is to wait upgrading Schrecks until the squad to carry them has some veterancy, Panzergrenadiers get +40% accuracy total at vet 2. Also don't expect to kill lights with it, but see it as an anti-medium tool. Mediums are easier to hit and have more difficulty kiting, just make sure the Panzergrenadiers are supported so you're not forced to retreat early.