Profile of MarkedRaptor

I noticed that brits have thesehorrible choices they have to make.

Make 1 AT gun to soft counter a vehicle(if it flanks it it dies horribly).
Make 2 AT guns to counter a vehicle(640 MP on AT only)
Make an Armored car to counter a vehicle
Place mines with 1 AT gun and hope that infantry don't trigger your mines.

The thing is, they don't HAVE to build a vehicle. YOU have to prepare so much for an imminent pounding because of the fear of a tank. Yet you spend all this time preparing for it and hurting your early game even more.

Im struggel on with my USF but without any succes!...snip

When everyone says "USF constantly assaults" it doesn't mean throwing bodies into the meat grinder. Typically it means you have to be aggressive and try to seal out the game before late game hits where USF is the weakest. To do that, you have to be able to take points, cut off Fuel, and control VP's, and of course win engagements.

USF has to switch between splitting up troops to enable wide flanks and attacking a singular point with everything you got. To enable wide flanks you have to have riflemen go a long way and have another riflemen squad scout an enemy's turtle position. Engagements will last a while if you are in a good piece of cover or are too far to take damage, which is how your other riflemen squads flank. USF's effective range is mid to close, but if you are in a great piece of heavy cover it's often better to stay there in a firefight.

Now, if they are super entrenched it's sometimes better to go around and cut them off from their points to force them out(I've had people sit 2 mg's in a building nearby as I decapped his stuff). However, let's say that wide flanks aren't feasible and you are forced to assault a turtle position. Your options in which case would be to smoke and assault with everything you got(Smoke MG's, squads in cover) or build a pak howie and grind them out. Don't pick engagements you'll never win, you'll just bleed. You need to pick engagements you can break through with.

Late game if you don't have premium commanders you are pretty much just spam Jacksons, Priests, or M10's.

OVERALL: Looney has listed some build orders, but if you are new as USF and a new CoH2 player I just suggest going 4x Riflemen into captain into either Stuart, Ambulance, Nades, Pak Howie or Weapon racks to fit the situation. The LT tier requires finesse and if you can't pull it off you may get shut out.

ALSO PRO TIP: If you want to know if a building is occupied, tell your troops to occupy the building from far away. If the building glows red it means a unit(mg probably) is in it. You then cancel your dudes order and left click the building. If it's an MG it will tell you what direction the MG is facing. It's a bug I think, but it'll be your best friend. This will give you the information you need to better plan your assault.

Wait, are you telling me howitzers can attack a specific unit, and re-adjust when that target moves???

I don't know what you mean. I'm saying is if you right click the unit with the pak howie and that unit leaves it's range, it will chase them to the ends of the earth. So you have to tell it to hold position where it then picks a random target, then you got to stop it from facing and aim it again. Just a chore really, it more has to do with its behavior.

I really should stop letting it autoface.

Something i forgot, the discrepancy between vet3 and the rest of the vet levels is stupid.

I mirror that. Unnoticeable vet and then all of a sudden best tank in the game.

The one thing that bothers me about the pak howie is when I leave it to auto face. It will decide that shooting to the far right of the map is far more important then shooting at a big blob. Then if the blob moves the damn thing goes apeshit.

If I tell it to not autoface it also doesn't auto fire. So even if I aim it in the right direction of an incoming blob it won't fire unless I manually tell it too.

Other then that good unit, just costs an arm and a leg.