Profile of Rappy

I don't find the mortar half track that effective. It doesn't kill the pit or bofors in one incendiary grenade. So then there is the cool down, or the backlash where they come at it with everything. In the meantime the emplacement is usually repaired back to full health. I wouldn't call that a hard counter.

The most effective counter I know of is AT guns just out of range or arty after brace. Problem is with the cancer commander, people don't tend to brace as often anymore unless they see arty flares. You don't want to spend 150 munitions on artillery and then see brace go on. An upgraded Bofors from cancer commander takes literally zero damage from 105m howitzer if braced.

Aerohank. I honestly think 8 out of 10 team games at the moment have emplacement play. I was amazed that you hadn't faced them in a while, but then I noticed you don't really play team games. I agree, in 1v1 you might see a mortar pit, but not often bofors and it's fairly easy to deal with them because they surrender some capping etc. But in team games they are just everywhere at the moment. Facing double brit emplacement spam on a place like minsk pocket is wonderfully miserable. You can be utterly thrashing the opponent the entire game and then as soon as the emplacements go up, its game over. A good Brit player always has their mortar pit covering their bofors which counters most emplacement counters. By the time you have medium tanks, they have a wall of AT.

It's been happening alot with T34s as well, now that they are spammed again.

Who needs pintle MG when you can just turn into a squad and do four times as much damage in half the time?

BTW does anyone know how to read rgd files? I tried the old techniques but win 10 says "no". I wanna check the STG stats.

I had self healing with stgs.

It IS definitely premature, but as long as I preface it with that I can tell you my preliminary thoughts. It works better than I thought it would for okw. It is a real challenge to stay abreast of teching and in the at dept but I do like challenges and it feels rewarding. I still think raketen needs range buff and back teching to med then having to buy meds is a bit much. But yeah the stg volks are pretty badass. That and the non doc mg open up a whole bunch of other non-meta doctrines since you don't need elite call ins or mg call in. Problem is that medium tanks take much longer now since any sensible fellow will buy a puma then need meds too which now costs fuel. I seriously recommend a change to the side tech costs, at least for something so important as medics. On the other hand I was awash with munitions for Sturm med pacs. That just feels a bit clunky to rely on past early game though.

Only played one game as usf. Seemed like a weird choice to go mortar that early so I stuck with rifles and grenades for the game. Pak Howie will always be more deadly.

Haven't played other factions yet. Looking forward to the new brummbar though.