Profile of Benoslav

Hello guys. I've been away since November and started playing around lately with meh good old friends, the OKW. I still haven't completely made up my mind about the redesign of the faction, but at first glance, they seem a lot more powerful (or the game decided to pair me against weaker opponents, due to my absence). What I would like to know is what is currently the agreed upon convention on the first tech-up choice. I remember back in Autumn, it was all about them leigs and jagdpanzers, so The healtruck was an obvious choice.

Now with the leiG nerf and the lack of any AT in the healtruck I feel like it might not be so anymore. What I usually do is I open with 2 Volks and an additional sturmpio, at which point I try to deduce if my opponent is going to buckle up and dig in or try to vehicle rush whereupon I accordingly decide whether to go for leiG or puma whilst getting a racketenwerfer in the meantime just to be safe. I also find that the new resource structure allows for crazy mine spammage, which I immensely like.

Anyway, my point is, does anyone have any suggestions on current tech pathing for the OKW, or is my reasoning of puma v indirect fire pretty much the way to go?

How do they work exactly? when I shoot at an enemy with them, they are always treated as in open ground? What about buildings? This game needs a kolaris advanced tooltip mod so badly. I don't use half the abilities cause I'm not sure what they do exactly or what's the DPS difference with certain upgrades.

I havent played since november, but arent emplacements just LeIG bait? I used to always get at least one anyway and against brits, they just went to a 24/7 emplacement bombardment duty + reposition while on CD. I heard there were some nerfs to the LeIG, did they go as far as to invalidate them against emplacements? They used to be very proficient at bringing them down.

Or just bait it over a teller mine. Obviously the AAHT will have to be used aggresively and if theyre using theyre resources to secure and OP theyre cutoff and fuel you should be able to grab your side of the map and have pretty much free reign over it. Try and predict where he will want to assault (tip: your fuel or your cutoff) and bait him to go the route you want with your unit positioning. Best thing is you dont have to spend fuel or MP for this "counter", so you can do your normal teching alongside it and don't really have to deviate from your gameplan (a pak to cover the other approach - the one without the mine - will seal the deal).

To be honest I feel like the decision as to where to place your first mine is the most improtant one in a game of COH, especially in the mid-levels, where people don't usually get sweepers untill something dies to a mine. At which point you should already have him by the balls (if its his schock unit, upon which he relied to make a push into the mid game).

Its very much about positioning. Your main damage dealer will be the JP4 use the tunnel vision this creates in your opponents. He will want to bum rush it and circle strafe it. So position the rest of your AT force (maybe not all of it but a least a schreck squad and a raketen) in such a way as to literally cover your JP4s ass instead of the enemy approach. Of course try to spread them out if possible - have one on the left of the JP, the other one in the right for example, so as to prevent a single artillery barrage from collapsing your line. Mines on the back lines can help you deal your ambush. Once the medium armour starts rolling in, start reversing your JP, it will keep shooting and the opponent, with his tanks caught in a crossfire, will have nothing to do but quote admiral Akbar, and will leave you with plenty of wrecks to salvage so that you can expedite any further tanks you might want to go for.

If the enemy does not take the bait, you've still pretty much got your way, cause you can bide your time in the Mexican standoff as long as you need to get a overwhelming panzer force rolling. This might not work against Brits though, considering they're late game tanks are also pretty kewl and might offer a serious contest in a late game tank battle. A king tiger should probably do well against them as well I assume.