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During WW2 Australians may have been mostly fighting the Japanese but they did play important roles in the desert battle across Egypt ect.

One of the more impressive battles was the battle of Tobruk. In the capture of Tobruk 20,000 prisoners, 208 guns and 87 tanks had been captured for the loss of 400 men, 355 of them Australian. The Australians would end up being cut off from the main UKF for 240 days, during that time they would successfully hold off against Rommel's constant attacks.

Another thing to add is the "desert rats", referring the 7th british armored regiment. they contained a good amount of Australians in the regiment. More importantly for COH2 is that they used a jeep that had 2 or 3 vickers machine guns mounted on it. From memory i believe most of those who used them were Australian. This would be a great unit addition to a COH2 commander. At say 4 points you get, late sure but thats because it would be able to quickly suppress infantry (looking at you volk blobs) and even follow them on their retreat (to punish players who over extend only with infantry in mid and late game). It wouldn't have a set up time but would only take 3 shreks (same as a UC) to kill so the UKF player would have to micro it well to keep it out of the shreks range.

So here is my thinking, it would contain something like
2 points - hit the dirt (same as Soviets)
2 points - mortar emplacements gain incendiary barrage ability
4 Points - assault
4-5 points - Desert rat's Jeep
8-10 points - some good late game arty (call in not from HQ)


The commander would basically have an anti-infantry focus. I want this so bad. we need that desert rat's jeep in the game. what do you think?

image of desert rats jeep in links
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I'm mainly a british player. I didn't look at the replay but i can tell you that panzaphasts are the best way to make the thing useless. use them everytime you see it to hold it off until you get a pak or shreks (2 squads with them to kill it, 1 with them will only hold it at bay) or tank. btw i wouldn't say its broken, powerful yes but still able to be countered fine. i would say its on par with the staurt now. a luchs (the OKW light tank thing) will not beat it unless you get a panzaphast on it too.

For light armor
Rush to a place and build a bofers AA emplacement on importaint spots or use AEC behind infantry Squads to push the light armour back. remeber to back the bofer up with an AT gun or tank once the germans start buying mid and heavy tanks. You can use piats but only give them to your royal engineers. Personally i use a bofers to deni them the fuel point and wait until i can get a cromwell. I will ninja cap around the place where the light armor is not.

for early armor
use a cromwell and flank it with an AT to surport. or a firefly (you should have one of the options by when they have a PZ4)


For late armor
Against heavy aromor 1 churhill and 2 fireflies works well or 3 flanking comets using emergency war speed to get out of there once damage is done.


For Blobs
even late game you need to make sure you always have 3-4 IS usually with brens. send your blob against theirs as well as a supporting tank or mg or something else, you will hardly any losses. remember volks dont excl at anything but are ok at everything. IS with brens excl at anti infantry, you dont even need bolster squad (i never bolster squad, but im good at keeping them alive).

Also the croc and AVRE are amazing against blobs (i have killed 25+ models with 1 AVRE shot before). Also remember you should be placing tones of mines in early/mid game (even if it apears like your thrashing the germans) to stop tanks in mid and late game, they also stop blobs.

Finally the base arty. It may suck at killing but it is the God of area denial for only 40 munitions. need to retreat from a VP or fuel point or any area really, have an IS call in arty before he leaves. Blobs cant enter because their size is too big and they WILL take a good amount of casualtys. also just as a side note, if you ever want mgs or ATs to move throw one near them.

I have always neglected building munitions caches and built fuel caches instead on purpose since i have always thought the british benefit from fuelcaches more. I also always seem to have extra munitions availible, do i do something wrong?

Yep you are. You are not building enough mines or using enough tunic rockects or airstrakes ect. That said I like to float on about 150-200 munitions for turnip rockets unless I'm saving for air surpremisy. Also you should try to build both if it's possiable. That said I will build a fuel cache only in 1v1 if I'm going for an early Cromwell. Once that is out I will build the munitions cache if the games still going

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