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Thread: [1v1] advices wanted about okw5 Sep 2018, 07:22 AM Jump back to quoted post5 Sep 2018, 03:47 AMDUTY001 Thanks for your review! Here is still something I'm confused: - About the kubel. In my mind kubel is so fragile that it can't even stand 10 seconds (I guess) before an infantry, so it will cost more micro and I must care more about it. You can see from the game that I lost it on the left-VP because I forgot it So I always set it as a support unit, shall I consider it a core unit in the early game? - About the tech. Usually I unlock the tech as soon as possible, becuase I think heavier tanks have more advantages in the battle and I'm fear about opponent tanks appear while I dont have a counter tank. - About the AT. Hmm...seems I dont know when to build an AT gun. Generally I won't build an AT until I see an armor appear at the opponent's side, maybe it's a good time to build it when I see USF already has a LT. - About the beginners guide. I have read it...just Thanks for your guide. I'll read more in the beginners guide. Your advices are really helpful to me. Thanks for pointing out my problems and I'll try to fix them As for the kubel. I kind of changed my mind on this and think you probably used it the best way. On a large map like minsk pocket without any easy cut-offs it is probably pretty good to use it for capping around the edges, especially when somebody goes for the "twisted tootsey" strat of heavy light vechileplay as shown by your opponent. On maps with easier cutoffs like Faymontville or road to kharkov, it is probably better to rush for the cut-offs. The kubel cannot stay in prolonged battles, but the advantage is that it dosen't drain any manpower as long as you repair it in time. Therefore it is also generally recommended that you use it to fight in combination with sturmpioneers, so they can repair it when the health is low. Also you should never expect it to live more than 10 minutes, so consider when it is better to skip it and just go for an extra volksgrenadier instead. As for the tech. You need to be smart about this and calculate the cost of unpacking the truck, so you can immediately benefit from it. At the time you placed the schwere you had like 40 fuel, which means that it will still take a long time before you would be able to push out a tank. if you had saved this and waited for five more minutes you could have gotten the command panther instead. as mentioned you can generally go without mechanized for a whole game and battlegroup for quite a while if you instead rely on medkits from sturmpios. you do not want to get all three tiers before pushing out armor as it will simply take too long. As for the at. There is no direct recipe for this, but the raketten is pretty affordable and generally performs extremely well against light and medium vehicles due to cloak and fast rotation, while it generally needs some vet to really shine against heavier armor. Therefore you should get them pretty fast so you can use them to kill the light vehicles and get them the vet they need to deal with the heavier tanks. As with the mine sweepers, it is better to have one and not need it than need one and not have it In: Replay Reviews
Thread: [1v1] advices wanted about okw4 Sep 2018, 20:59 PM Allright I'm going to give a quick review and perhaps Shadowlink will add further details. - You start out with a slight 10-15 second delay in the game befor you started to make moves. While this is of course minor, the early game still has a disproportionately large impact on the rest of the early game, so make sure you're ready the second the game starts. - you start by some very defensive capping with the kubel. While some players favor this, I would generally take a more agressive approach with this, especially on minsk pocket and against USF, who outside a quick jeep from mechanized, lack any serious counters to this. In this particular game it probably worked out though, as your opponent actually went for the jeep. - when the USF goes for this, it is usually best to give ground until you get a counter through raketen or panzerfaust. In this case you fed him loads of xp, while taking nothing away from him as he could just repair. - your second SWS truck was out waay too soon! You don't really want the second one before you have capitalized on the first one, and in most cases you want to go either battlegroup or mechanized before schwere not both! instead of spending all those additional early manpower, you could have pushed out an additional mg to control the opponents infantry or a raketen to take out his wc51 and the light vehicle you could predict from seeing his lt. - your first at gun comes out around the 10 minute mark which is much too late when the opponent has gone or the wc51. he has already gotten so many kills and vet on his riflemen at this point, and rifles become absolute monsters at higher veterancy. - you are moving around a lot of very wounded squads. this means much faster manpower drain and poor staying power in engagements. Manpower is pretty much the most important ressource at any stage in the game, so you should accept giving ground in order to heal up your units. Especially when you are moving them around in groups anyway, which means that the capping is going slow. you should not use more than one unit on capping a point - 13 mins nice attack with the puma! That AA gun was turning into a true nightmare, so the puma was a decent investment. Having said that a lucs might have been even better vs leutenant, as it generally outperforms all the vehicles in that tech line, while also being much better at killing infantry. furthermore you don't have to worry about an AT-gun when the opponent has revealed his commander and gone for lt. - Also good job placing mines and getting a sweeper. Much more experienced players than you often get greedy and don't get a sweeper. This will almost always turn out to be a terrible mistake. - at 19 minutes you start building the schwere command, after having picked the spec ops commander. This commander is generally picked for the purpose of delaying the schwere and getting the command panther. having just spent 125 fuel on the schwere this is not happening anytime soon, so you would have been much better of either 1. Not having gotten the schwere and pushed out a cmd panther when you hit 12 commandpoints or 2. only having gotten one of the former tiers and gotten the schwere and an early pz4. At this time your opponent has the sherman 76, so you are not in a good tactical position. - While it's great that you got the sweepers, remember that the sturmpios are the only engineer unit that can "holster" the sweeper, thus retaining full firing potential. This is hugely important to utilize whenever they are in a firefight as otherwise they are down with a quarter of their DPS. - you also make good use of flares. This is very important for intel and another thing that is often overlooked. So let's wrap this up with some pros and cons reflections on your performans: + you made good use of mines and utility items. + you made good use of flares and positioning of at guns. + you seemed to keep it cool even when you were on the backfoot. - you occationally picked some pretty bad engagements, which meant that you bled a lot of manpower. - your build order did't respond accordingly with what you were facing. - you teched too much and too fast, which set you back quite a bit in terms of fielding tanks. - your choice of commander didn't respond well with your choice of actions. - with time you will probably be better at microing your units, which you moved around quite condensed which makes them very vulnerable to explosions and pinning. I hope this was somewhat helpfull and would also like to finish of with some shameless self promotion in the shape of the beginners guide that I authored (with help from other great community members). If you haven't read this already, then there is probably some stuff in there you can use https://www.coh2.org/guides/70864/from-recruit-to-veteran - - In: Replay Reviews
Thread: In a bad spot with USF4 Sep 2018, 12:14 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Sep 2018, 16:24 PMShadowLinkX37 You still want help here? Or was GaiA's review in the replay section enough? Thanks bro, but I've recovered on my own. Now it's my Ostheer game that's in the dumps, so I might call you on a rewiew on this in the near future In: Replay Reviews
Thread: [1v1] advices wanted about okw4 Sep 2018, 12:13 PM Jump back to quoted post3 Sep 2018, 16:17 PMShadowLinkX37 I'd feel down for a review atm, but josh said he'd take this one It's all yours mate And as DUTY mentioned, we might be able to bring some different perspectives if we both watch it. The most important thing for me is that people can still come here to get help and feedback, not necessarily that I'm doing it In: Replay Reviews
Thread: [1v1] advices wanted about okw3 Sep 2018, 07:28 AM Seems like you're already being introduced to some of the real salt of the earth players in the community Good to see that this hasn't put you of the game though I'm going on a work seminar for the next couple of days, but I'll see if I can send you a review when I get home In: Replay Reviews
Thread: Crossroads29 Aug 2018, 12:07 PM Jump back to quoted post9 Aug 2018, 17:17 PMCommanderSquiggles Wanted to tell the other player gg but forgot how In: Replays
Thread: How to use halftrack?7 Aug 2018, 13:48 PM Jump back to quoted post6 Jul 2018, 23:30 PMLoopDloop Don’t underestimate the utility of being able to reinforce troops on the front line. It’s especially useful in builds without conscripts and even when you have conscripts you can just soft retreat to the halftrack instead of retreating your conscripts to reinforce. It really does help you maintain map presence and pressure on your opponent. While I agree with your assesment on paper, I hardly ever see it used in 1v1. perhaps once every 100 matches if even that. Same goes when watching casts. I seems like it could use some minor tweeks to make it more popular. Perhaps just something small like a 50% reduction on suppression while moving, in stead of having it removed entirely? In: Red Army Strategies
Thread: wehr vs uk (prestige 3) Kol. Ferma7 Aug 2018, 13:43 PM Jump back to quoted post7 Aug 2018, 10:20 AMafrrs not exactly mate , i cant get a 65 no star guy in auto easily But my point is that the prestige rank essentially gives no indication of skill, only how many hours people have played. You can find people in the very bottom of the ladders who have 1000+ matches under their belt, while also people in the top 100 who dosen't even have a single prestige star (though admittedly some, but not all, of these are smurfs). In: Replays
Thread: wehr vs uk (prestige 3) Kol. Ferma7 Aug 2018, 09:52 AM Isn't basically everyone prestige 3 these days? In: Replays
Thread: In a bad spot with USF4 Aug 2018, 23:12 PM Hi guys. I just fired up coh2 after the holidays and while I've been doing allright with most factions, I'm in a horrible spot with USF and are on a borderline 10 streak of defeat which has dropped me about 200 ranks A lot of this is probably l2p and getting knocking of the rust, but I would like very much to get some feedback on a game like this wich pretty much sums up most of my recent games. 0 VS AbsoluteMachine Tordenskjold 5 USF defeat feedback required by: Joshua85 map: Faymonville Approach 2 - In: Replay Reviews