The lakes are frozen or winter version. So the summer version has many chokepoints that are easy to guard with mgs and paks, while on the winter version you can get flanked more easily.
As for the vetos, I generally keep veto lists for each faction but I try to veto as little as possible, just becouse it shakes thinks up and makes games more interesting. Only if some map pisses me off becouse I loose on it too much I veto it for some time.
After each strategy or faction shift many of these become wrong. Even the list you have for OKW while you switch OKW with OST will be different than the list for OKW when you switch with USF. It's like that becouse OST has completely different playstyle than USF.
And btw, I tend to play minimum of two factions at the time, playing only one couses a tunnel vision and you strart to play worse and worse with every match. At least it works like that for me.
hmm alright, i try to play something that weak at, (ost and UKF)
btw if semoisky summer can control the choke point with MG, isnt that Maxim Spam advantage?