Profile of Mr.Smith

I think I know what's going on.

The player deliberately targeted the sandbags, thus causing AoE suppression to trigger.
You can see that it has to be the sandbags since the guards got pinned at max-range ultra-fast by a vet0 MG.

I knew you could use vehicles to abuse this mechanic, but I didn't know it also gets triggered by sandbags

The target-acquisition issue is annoying, yes. A workaround that I have found that works is to manually setup the raketenwerfer.

That is to say, you click and drag in the direction you want the gun to set up, and the raketen will open fire automatically.

In theory, the pupchen has the same accuracy as the other non-UKF AT guns. However, some people have reported that it fires its shots too close to the ground (I can't verify whether this is true or not).

This means that every time that the raketenwerfer "misses" a shot, the shot has a higher chance to collide with obstacles in the ground and, thus, not do any damage.

Ah I wasn't really playing attention to my teammate, I guess I didn't factor that in. I really appreciate the pointers though so thank you. How do I order my sniper to kill the Officer specifically? Rather than one of the 4?

You don't. You just aim the squad and pray.

Note that for as long as the Sturmofficer stays alive he buffs all infantry around him with a +20% accuracy bonus. Since that was about 10 Volks squads around him, you were effectively fighting 12 Volks squads.

When you say 'nuke with whatever you've got' this game I went Croc doc (so no Sexton or AVRE) and didn't get a mortar pit so what indirect fire options do I really have?

As Brits? None. That's one of the faction weaknesses.

The kind of nuking I had in mind is to send infantry and bruise them up.
Both Crocodile and AVRE should do well vs team weapons. AVRE is just godly though.

In that game a mortar pit might have helped; but only if you built it on your teammates' side, to force your teammate to fight (Machiavellian tactics, again).

You should rename this as Brits 1v2 against OKW blobs. This is because your teammate was mostly absent.

(I couldn't stand watching the game past minute 20; the mistakes of your teammate were far too obvious).

If you ever have both players blobbing you, then you should be grateful. It means that your teammate will have an easy time capping the rest of the map, and your team will win. Instead, your teammate was floating something like 500 MP, avoiding fights, etc.

This meant that you had to do all the fighting, which means:
- You lose all your MP reinforcing your units
- You had to spread even thinner to do capping
- You feel constantly overwhelmed with micro

It's frustrating.

Tactics-wise, you could improve on the following things:

Sturm-officer

If you see a Sturmofficer in the middle of the enemy blob, just order your sniper to kill him. This will make all enemy player-owned units retreat to their base, which will give you room to breathe.

Stuka Barrages

The moment that the enemy fields a Stuka, it's best to ungarrison your MGs, as they will easily go down with the building that hosts them.

Until your micro improves so that you feel more confident dodging the barrages, I recommend building trenches for your Vickers. If the stuka barrages, the trench will go down, but the MG will safely jump out of the trench.

Dealing with uncooperative teammates

You can't choose your teammates. If your rank is low enough this means that you have high chance of getting bad teammates. Until you find a strategy to deal with this somehow, this will become a vicious cycle (aka ELO hell)

Whenever I am given a teammate that simply doesn't want to cooperate, I try to influence the battle order to force them to cooperate.

How? Just withdraw your forces to your base for 30 secs.

If the enemy is blobby, they will feel confident in attacking your teammate. When that happens you join forces with your teammate. At the same time, it helps having an odd unit capping the other side of the map.

In order to have that kind of flexibility this means that you should completely avoid static emplacements (since you can't just really pack-up-and-go).

Raketenwerfers

The easiest way to deal with these things is get some air recon going (air recon reveals cloaked units).

The best sources of air recon for brits are:
- Tactical support/ R.Eng command vehicle (aka FREE RECON)
- Airlanding officer vet1 ability (costs 30 munitions, spammable)

Once spotted, you can nuke those things with whatever you have. If you don't spot those things in time, they will wreck you.

Final notes

1. Note that you have played less than 10 2v2 games as UKF. Until you do that, you get randomly placed with players all over the spectrum. Your gaming experience can be extremely frustrating until your rank stabilizes a bit (around 15-20 games).

2. Playing more games as the opposing factions will also give you unique insights about how they work, and how to best counter them.

Obers have it too (though to be fair they're still kinda manpower overpriced even with it).

Basically, nearly every single 4-man squad in the game has had their reinforcement cost adjusted:
- Tommies
- PGrens
- Most OKW infantry

I am assuming that this because, even though better received accuracy values sound sexy, in theory, snipers and indirect fire lethality simply don't care about it.

On a flipside, whenever you recrew weapons with any of these units, you get to pay the full (pre-buff) reinforcement cost for the recaptured weapons.

Because, who could ever say no to a 35-MP-per head Tommy-remanned Vickers?

(This bug is due to the way the reinforcement cost reduction was implemented)