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5 popcap seems kinda rough for a now extremely situational niche unit that cannot fight nor capture territory (like medics or an USF ambulance who have popcap). It's a complete non-combatant like Opel Blitz which has 0 popcap

imo opinion a unit that can see further then a JT can shoot is useful under any circumstance. People underestimate the power of constant vision.

I saw elpern clapping inca una a few days ago by looking into the enemy base from about mid vp on langres. checking for tanks and then sending in a sturmtiger to base rape him lol (kudoos for elpern)(1v1)

me my self and my buddies get atlesat 1 each at some point in the game. when playing 4s or 2s. if we all go okw. u can see su85s and jacksons u name it, b4 they can even shoot u, not to mention enemy t34 formations preparing for a Ram-and-Slam. the IR is incredibly usefull. especialy in team games, i for see problems if you remove popcap. Having a IR next to your elephant or JT makes life a lot easier. Also u can see blobs come in from miles away and prepare your arty accordingly. Also this thing takes 2 shots to kill, so u can go for an occassional sneakpeak, get an offmap in and gtfo lol.

def voted no

What are the tips for fighting late game Axis players? Winning early game is not hard but as the heavier armour and one elephant get called in, pretty much any armour is useless and the arty + scout planes from 3v3 mods pretty much wreck the infantry. How would one counter the steady axis push? By that I mean:
Elephant + KT + Panther + infantry + one player supporting with recon/flares and artillery. USF doesn't have any non doctrinal artillery and howitzers are useless past mid game on bigger game modes because one guy will have walking stuka which, if a bit lucky, can easily take out when you're fighting 3 fights and can't pay attention to everything (basically flares are big scary UFO lights). How would you go against these combos? Jacksons are pretty much useless since the elephant in the back takes them out easily. Panthers with it's huge armour and HP can rush in to take out any low hp tank and stukas and Panterwerfers pretty much negate any semi static positions (like AT squads). How would you deal with a situation like that? You win early game and hold about 60% of them map but once the heavies start rolling out and the axis player is not braindead to just rush with the heavy into the enemy base.
So far I've tried flanking which can be negated with the OKW truck and/or arty and/or the fast panther relocation (+ mines). I've tried using 2x Jackson range but the bounce is pretty high on heavies at max range (+ the huge HP). I've tried dedicated infantry squads with zooks and snares, but again, zooks and snares bounce quite often even on side/back of heavies. 2v2 and 1v1 is not hard to win with USF, but late game in bigger modes, pretty darn hard.

Looking for more skilled/experienced players to pitch in their strategies.

I saw a lot of talk about USF but since your playing with a team u might also have a sovjet on your side. In this case, i'd like to point out a few sovjet-usf ways to deal with the party composition above. If the sovjet spams t34s and has a doctrine with either il2 bomb/rocket runs or tank overwatch artillery, your sovjet ally should lead the charge, ram some problematic heavies. click his cheese ablities, while the USF backs up the t34 horde (atleast 3 but preferably more then 4) with a few jacksons, and either p47s or some other form of support. These combined pushes are very hard to stop as axis, even if they spam mines. U can sweep those, and they can never have enough mines to stop all of your tanks. The goal is to lose less then axis, who have fewer but more expensive tanks. wreck their economy. Don't overextend while doing this, grab only what u can safely then pull out and repair and go back in.

I have some sweaty top 100 3v3 ranks as a team so i guess i could point a few things out. First of all its a lot of criticism but i guess you all were looking for that. A long the way i got a little bit frustrated because i really wanted you guys to win, so plz forgive me if it sounds a bit harsh at times.

What i saw from the first 15 mins:

- You guys like to build bunkers on positions u can't possibly hold, nor support. Then you lose those and built them again, only to lose them again. That's a waist of resources. you could have used it for either caches or to replace infantry losses.

- mr C u didnt got an mg, in this situation thats not that good of a decision since this map is consists out of 3 main lanes. which u can shut down with 1 or 2 mg. Having atleast 1 mg is very helpfull at all times.
- To all of you, you guys retreat way to late. with every engagement you gotta think: 'will i win this?' 'do i gain with anything with this fight?' 'what are my chances to get out without getting wiped' 1 of you guys made 7 ass grens in 14 mins and lost 4. You can't have that. Asking your self those questions during fights should reduce the amount of casualties and free mp for caches if needed. TO CLEARIFY: you must not spam caches now, defenitley not in the first 10 mins of the game. you need squads and if u got spare mp each one of you could get a cache a long the way.

first 30 mins:
- okw t4 placement was way to cocky and far forward. There is no point in building stuff if u cant guarantee you can keep it
- you guys lost your first mediums quite early because they were unsupported. --> support them
- i saw the okw guy float 1000mp at some point while having like nothing on the field.
- you guys dont like support wapons? they are crucial specially when dealing with jacksons harrasing p4s or t34 hordes. Since your p4s were out numbered.
- the kv2 got aboneded somewhere but no one went in to finish it?
- all you guys lacked sever antitank against all the armor the enemy had on the field, and then the okw builts 2 howis? those will not do anything against such a mobile enemy composition.
- 1 of the sovjets was windustry, and there was no AA to counter the fuel planes. a safely place mini okw AA would have done the job.

30-45 min
- dont allow paks to shoot at infantry, use hold fire and preferably dont blob all of them in the same spot. try to spread them out.
- use mines, i htink you guys didnt built a single (teller) mine. if you guys made some mines you could have prevented a few of those enemy tank dives. shut them down
- okw guy tried to tank penal satchels with a jp4? bad idea to use a tankdestroyer as anti infantry.
- you guys didnt really try to get rid of some of the enemy (forward) caches, if you did that and succeeded, the enemy economy and ability to spam tanks would have been harmed.
- mr C u dived straight in to the enemy lines trying to get a calli. Again what did you expect? That you would bounce all those shots? I'd refere here to the 3 key questions again. Throwing the panter resulted in your elephant being unsupported and vulnerable to a t34 push. The enemy recognized that so that happend. You gotta htink of your full party comp b4 you did that risky dive. But its not all on you, since your teamm8 mr A should have come over to help you, but instead was taking a nap on the side of the okw. you guys have to play as a team,be aware of your allies situations. can you do things to assist them?

45-60 min
- Guess where previous mentioned t34 horde went after clapping mr c, it came straight for mr A. you guys killed some but could have been better if the okw supported mr A, and turned his pak43 the right way and not let it have a nap. Again failed to see the situation of allies.
- you guys end the game with huge amount of resources in the bank. 1 guy has 2k mp! tank dont cap vps, infantry does. 2 others had huge amount of ammo, again (anti tank) mines! secure your flanks against medium rushes.

I hope you guys can learn something from these mistakes, and turn these kinda games in a win next time, because i really wanted you guys to win lol.

Good luck on the battlefield and go get them!

ps: so many abondones lol, if you only could fix rng

Holy shit my brother gets a pridepost against him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Finally its my time to get one bitch im famous !

How about no and you just position the damn thing right when you want to shoot a plane. You will be fine.

On more serious note, i feel like the supression on the move is actually fine in this case since its not 360 degree, and you have to put in quite a bit of effort of keeping the AA moving the right way. Unless you're a smart brain and have a key with reverse+click scripted on your mouse which makes reversing and using the AA significantly easier ^^