Profile of Joshua85

Jaeger light infantry are great adition to your army and synerzise really well with volks because they have a sniper rifle that snipes any model below 70% of health. Volks have high DPS to hurt models with their STGs and then JLI snipe wounded from behind the volks.


Ostwind is a really good call-in in current Light vehicle meta. First you can go double Luchs or Luchs + Puma to put huge amound of pressure on your opponent. Then at 8 CP (because you´re very agressive your CPs are acquired faster) you call in Ostwind medium tank that hardcounters infantry and light armor alike to win the game.

This build is very popular against the British Forces because they lack A) snare to soft-counter light vehicles (AC is hardcountered by Puma) B) they lack any 8CP medium call in tank (Valentine doesn´t count as it´s a joke on wheels )

Against Soviets and especially USF this build (and so the commander) become less and less used because Allied players learned how to counter this - M10 spam and Lend Lease Sherman is no the meta and both these vehicles counter infantry and Ostwind alike (well M10 only to some extend but USF player also can call in Bulldozer Sherman).

Anyway this commander is still great punishement against USF players that refused to go Armor Company - once you see Smoke offmap drop or Ranger you will know he picked Pershing Commander and so the Scavenge commander is a great way to punish him for not going M10.

The infiltration grenades are very cheap (15 munnition) and nuke any wooden house. They are very strong against maxim spammer players or against UKF (his IS need to stand still, UKF players use Vickers ...)


All other 2 abilities are meh -thorough salvage is more of a debuff than buff because usually you want to remove a team wapon from map with salvage and now the salvage takes much longer so its riskier, Artillery strike is nice but you wont build your 1v1 strategy around an offmap artillery strike.


CONCLUSION: Scavenge Commander was very strong before last patch because everyone was either going Brits, Maxims or Pershing and he countered each of these. Now he is still a great 3rd commander in your roster but he isnt your primary pick in most situation - Special Ops is much safer against meta Sov/USF - you can use infiltration grenades as well + Command Panther hardcounters M10/Lend Lease Shermans.


Hope I helped you, feell free to ask if you have any questions (eg what commander should I use in what situation ...)

Cheers
Hector

Quality answer as always Hector!

I'll keep this in mind next time I'm facing off against a brit player (Although I seem to only be meeting soviets atm..)

get raketens, plant mines and use faust to get the engine damage crit

Yeah I think this is the way to go (and also usually what I do), but in open maps I feel like it can be very difficult to predict where to place the mines and the raketens will often struggle with the fast and mobile soviet mediums and run the risk of being wiped in a single well placed tank shell.

Even when this works a t-34 is almost half price of an OKW P4 (fuel-wise) so it is much less punishing for them to loose a tank. This is even more the case if they have the fueldrop.

But at the end of the day it is probably to a large extent a l2p issue on my behalf and I should just "git more gud" at said strategy

Thanks for the feedback.

I tend to go BG unless I have a really good early game and want to push my advantage with a Luches. It's somewhat map dependent but I like to use a forward but safe BG as a means of map control coupled with a nearby Schwere (which you can get out much sooner going BG). It means you have a safe zone to park your ISG(s) and lock down your fuel and/or a VP. Just make sure you have a Raken nearby to cover against the first tank which probably still will come before yours.

Current Soviet meta doesn't use howitzers or IL2 bombing run so most Soviets players can't punish truck city easily unless they have good Penal micro to somehow get a satchel storm off. Throw in PAK43 with Fortifications and it can be nasty. Once you get your T4 up it's just a matter of microing your medium armor better (and playing well enough to maintain your fuel flow to get your armor fast enough).

Heck I can't remember the last time I teched the forward retreat optin for the BG truck in a 1v1, but I suppose I could test it out just to shake up my strategy a bit (that 300mp cost though..)

I also have a feeling that the Flak HT might actually be just the things vs penalspam, as the quick suppression should render their PTRS rifles quite ineffective. I just have to be quick with the smoke and retreat as soon as the first t-34 pops its head out.

P.S. I'm actually doing better with OKW for the moment even though I haven't yet tried out any of the new strategies. I guess it goes to show that sometimes you just have to talk about your problems to feel better

I deserved to win that game but because murican blobs are broken, I lost.

You ought to be permabanned from this forum considering the absolutely foul and racist toxicity you were spewing at your opponent in this match!

Here's a little tip fore ya. Take a defeat like a man, watch your replay, take notes and learn from your mistakes.

If your answer to every defeat is that the game is unbalanced then chances are that this is more of a you-probem than a balance problem,

Now before any OPKW starts, let me just be clear that I am by all intents and purposes a casual player who will be lucky to occationally kiss rank 16 but is unlikely to stay there fore long

Along with USF (whom I only recently started playing) I feel like OKW is probably my weakest faction (used to be 13 now all the way down to 11). This is especially the case against the soviet combination of penals into early t-34 or sherman.

I feel like I am consistently behind whenever the soviet mediums start rolling out and this tends to snowball into a defeat.

The only semi-sucessfull strat I occationally manage to pull of is picking spec ops, skipping schwere and hold on for my dear life untill I can get out the command panther. For this to work I need to have out two rakentens and a luchs that needs to be kept alive until I can get the panther. If I fail in any of these it is basically gg.

Iøve considered trying out the puma for the initial melee with t-34 but I generally feel that this is a risky investment and doubly so when the t-34 has a last ditch ability to ram the shit out of it

I've linked to an example of a replay against an admittedly stronger player.

In this I actually make the mistake of trying for a schwere panzer which ends in complete disaster and again reinforces my belief that there are hadly any viable options other than the spec ops delay schwere hq.

Anyways I would appreciate any feedback you could give me

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  No doctrine no bullitin soviet opponent raped me :'(

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