Profile of Spinflight

No-one? Thought there was 120 players entered....

It's a bit annoying facing a LeFH18 that can fire on your base, when you have a couple in your base that can't do the same.

Some sort of counter battery would be nice, it feels completely wrong being out artilleryed ( artilleried? Spell checker says no to both) by the Axis. Before I bought the game I'm sure relic's own description mentioned reliance on artillery.

Hmmm... All of the units mentioned are ones that I don't use!!

I try to keep my forces mobile though after many many failed experiments with AECS, UCs and snipers I've reverted to using the Bofors and almost always have to pick Anvil.

I've built hundreds of UCs and lots of AECs, tried everything with them but I just suck. Found some interesting uses for them, for instance a sacrifice on both flanks with coordinated artillery when I push the centre. The idea being anything they discover is going to get some well earned 25pdrs to help them out. Oddly they seem to stand up to the later Kraut tanks close in purely because they can avoid the slow turret traverse. Early game though even Volks seem to kill them without Shrecks.

I tend to use Tactical Support Regiment, so no Crocs for me. No idea how to use snipers, they always get rushed and killed. I even put a thread on here asking for replays from someone who knows how to use them.

I find that I never actually push, rather than capping weakly or non defended areas, until I have three tanks. Bitter experience suggests that two simply isn't enough.

Even when I decap and harass OKW's fuel he still seems to out tank me both in numbers and in timing. Haven't had any luck with Piats, if the opposition doesn't leave their tanks stationary then they just seem to miss constantly. Did see a thread from Mr.Smith suggesting some interesting uses for them which I will try but when I come to push I'll usually spend all my munitions on Brens to keep those naughty Shrecks at bay. Especially on the engineering squads.

I'm trying to get a Churchill as my first tank now as it is vital for the first one to survive ( an extra 75 fuel is a looooooong wait though). So many outnumbered Cromwells have gone down.. Don't think I'm overly aggressive with my first one, quite the opposite. One chap did tell me a Centaur can solo a PIV so might try that too. I hate those things, don't fare badly when they go for supertanks but several PIVs is a problem.

I'll usually try to crater one of the VPs I don't own earlyish with my base arty to give my infantry a foothold in the later game ( the dictionary definition of optimism!).

But yeah, I'm rubbish so unit preservation is an issue. I just find that even late game and at popcap when I push, OKW seems stronger. Early game is whack a mole and midgame a struggle against early armour.

I don't recall the KT moving, clearly something else at play but as I said other than a couple of Vickers I didn't have anything else left. I suppose my AT might have got a shot in before it died, it died ( the AT) pretty quickly though and I think the first KT took out my other one.

On a side note am I wrong about it becomming more accurate?

What are the game mechanics around this?

Given that the game is designed such that different factions are strong at different stages of the game ( I seem to remember seeing a relic graphic about this) when as Brits do you have your chance to push an OKW player?

I've asked a few top players on their twitch streams etc but the answer always seems to be that the Brits are only strong when defending.

How then do you take territory against the OKW faction and in what part of the game? Logically if your defence just becomes stronger then you need to have taken the territory or VPs early, though Brits are meant to be strong in the late game..