Profile of CombatWombat

How a lot of the games even up going these days, when playing as UKF, is that early game is relatively decent but can be hugely affected by map design. CC maps are a straight up death sentence for UKF. Mid is game is where things become more contested/balanced and tends to be more back and forth.

Late game where things will completely fall part as this where the axis elites and heavy indirect starts appearing. Your emplacements get swept away by one click no risk abilities. Your teams weapons get insta-wiped by rocket arty and LefH barrages which have constant vision on your positions due to OKW flares, IR halftracks, spotting scopes and cloaked racks.

This leaves you with infantry sections, Churchills and fireflies to try hold the line but you struggle to trade evenly against the axis meta of panther spam (with smoke), command panther, brumbar, obers, vet 5 volks spam and racks sneaking forward and instantly retreating. So you get slowly beaten back and ground down till there is nothing left but the surrender button.

You just don't have the stock tools to deal with stuff that is meta or comes from the axis stock roster. You can't counter rocket or fixed arty positions, you can't snare tanks and you can't clear garrisons. Its a struggle to deal with vetted inf spam and its difficult to punish axis units that over extend. Just limited options that make your strategies predictable and force you to pick certain commanders to hopefully fill the gap.

A lot of your build choices also tend to be reactionary, in that you have to build unit X to counter axis unit Y, e.g. getting a AEC to counter axis light vehicle rushes or fireflies to counter panther spam. If you try to pre-empt what the opponent is gonna do and get it wrong, then it hurts a lot as some units have very specific uses and are worthless in the wrong situation. The only time you can cause a shock to the axis is when you rush out your centaur.

The limited options problem is compounded by UKF having a number of units that are categorically worse than their counter parts while still being expensive, like the Comet, Sexton, 17pdr (Yes 17pdr is inferior to the pak43).

The only thing you can really hope on is that your axis opponent does something silly and completely over extends or that you can break them in the early game. Late game, your chances of winning are slim.

You are welcomed. The forums should be a place where people can learn something (instead of trying to "bash noobs").

Hope springs eternal!

Centaur is superior to Ostwind and not just damage, the units has high armor and small size (the stats of a pre-nerfed Cromwell if I remember correctly).

Brumbar is not in the same league as Centaur and delivers damage in different way so they should not really be compared.

Finally Centaur damage vs light vehicles should have penalties the same way Luch has since it can destroy them in seconds.

What are the numbers for the armour and size of the Centaur and Ostwind?

I can't find an up-to-date source for stats theses days

Small thing but worth pointing out: the comet always has access to blitz and benefits from tracking as well, so IT DOES have those advantages over the panther. It was over nerfed but that's relics jam. Make a broken unit to sell then nerf it beyond belief. I mean who in their right mind says "let's give it WP, that out ranges AT guns and unlike the other WP in the game actually kills models instead of leaving them at 1hp. That's balanced right?"

The Comet used to be godlike, just like a lot of newly introduced units, but what it is now is a pile of garbage. The 'novel features' that the Comet has does not justify the resource and CP cost nor the utterly worthless vet.

I don't consider Comet's warspeed an advantage over Panther as the Panther does get combat blitz, albeit at vet 1.

I haven't used hammer doctrine in ages, so I can't provide a comment about tracking and how useful it really is.

WP shell used to be insanely OP, but they got nerfed and now its just ok. Its cheap to use but its a double edged sword, as while it does damage the squad its fired at, it also provides smoke cover for that squad which makes it difficult to actually kill the squad or any models for that matter. Its basically forces a squad to retreat without loses. Its also been fixed to behave like normal WP, so reduces the model's to 1 hp, however a single WP shell only reduces the health to about 1/5 health due to a very short DOT duration (I suspect).
IE a WP shell from a Comet is not nearly as bad as WP from other sources.

With the Bren gun and Centuar nerf, the Brits do need a vehicle with decent AI but the Comet can't even outperform a Panther in that regard - which is just a sad state of affairs.

I've stopped playing as UKF, as sad as that may be. Instead moved on to playing soviet due to their more diverse unit roster and better options for countering the axis meta.