Profile of ShadowLinkX37

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Things to improve on:

Floating was a large problem for you this match. early game you had around 500-700 manpower in the bank at any one time. You had a 222 early, 2nd pio for repairs if need be and flamer if you could be certain he wasn't going to have mines. 2nd pio will also help cap in the down time.

In early engagements on the north munitions point you didn't use the garrison instead went for the light cover. Unsure if this was because it didn't occur to use or you wanted to possibly bait into the MG42. Garrisons are very powerful early game as the ways to clear them are limited and trading with them is often difficult. Just remember that a squad can only have as many men shooting out of the garrison as there are windows to that side.

Squad preservation: Lost squads unnecessarily even in the early game. This should improve as micro improves and you can handle more engagements.

Cutoffs: Every time you went to cutoff the fuel you went to the actual fuel point. You can decap a maps "cutoff" point to take a major chunck of territory out of connected territory by decapping that one point. The point for the right side on Kholodney Ferma Winter is the point just north of the fuel. Decapping this will disconnect the entire south if the middle VP or point outside of the left base is not capped by the right.

Seemed to be a little timid with your 222 around rifle squads from fear of AT nades. Riflemen can't use AT nades till vet 1 and if they're pinned squads cannot fire back. Suppressed squads have reduced accuracy and 50% reload penalty. Making it prefered to charge suppressed squads to increase accuracy and negate cover. Do this as long as you know you won't be forced to retreat if he had a .50 cal behind his troops.

Against USF you see a captain, you know hes going stuart. Need premptive AT.

Again you saw the BAR zook on 1 squad combo. Indecisive use of riflemen specilization and will force him to either blob or lose enagements if he runs into anti infantry only squads such as LMG grens.

Certain world features like stonewalls will stop tank rounds and force the impact across the wall where it hit. If your infantry squad is on the side where it hits the entire damage of the round will hit your clumped infantry sections. This can be seen at the 13:25 mark with your HMG getting decrew very quckly and your pgrens dropping models quickly.

Don't right click on capture points. this will force your squads to clump up on the flags and be prime targets for explosive rounds from Stuarts and shermans and grenades. click in the capture zone not on it.

USF can't build mines unless they select a doctrine with Riflemen field defenses or has an M20 which require the Lieutenant. No mines means you can be more aggressive. Just still be wary of AT nades.

Pak guns when they reach vet 1 have an ability called target weakpoint. If a shot is taken within 6 seconds, connects, and penetrates. stuns the crew of the vehicle. rendering it immobile. Very useful if an opponet it trying to dive you or you you need to get another shot in when he overextends slightly. Many units have a vet 1 ability. Panzer 4s from Ostheer have Blitzkrieg, this allows for faster movement as well as a received accuracy bonus, meaning it is harder for opponets to hit your tank. UKF have Emergency War Speed and OKW have combat Blitz, both similar to blitzkrieg.

In most cases have 1 gren for fausts just won't cut it. I always try and have at minimum of 2 mobile snares in my roster be it volks, fusiliers, grens or rifles. Conscripts are different though. Penal spam and Maxim spam don't usually utilize conscript AT snares and rely more on mines.

If your opponet will not stop chasing you deeper and deeper and you havn't placed mines or he's missed them, keep moving your units back to stay away unless you can capitalize on his over extention. you lost both p4s because you stopped reverse moving.

Seemed to underestimate 240mm arty. The slang term for 240mm and Railway arty is "RNG bombs" because they have massive scatter but a massive blast radius. Keep everything away from the scatter radius of those bombs. If you're not sure if you're safe from them, move farther away. better to be safe than sorry. fortunatly you were not punished by them this game, but you very much could have been.

Always build mines if you have munitions and especially when your opponet has a fast moving dive lineup, something the allies rely on because they have weaker armor.

If you have a point captured, in this case the middle VP, move up and defend it. He has to take it away from you; get those paks up covering for Tanks and the HMG for infantry. your pak positioning was very defensive but your HMG was there so that was good. USF mortar is pretty broke yeah? best thing to do is try and get a flank off on it and either force a retreat or if possible wipe the veterancy.

Last p4 made wasn't neccesary, you had a P4 up and were 60 fuel from a tiger.

Overall small mistakes again building into larger ones. Micro improvement will aid you greatly and will come with time and practice. Don't forget those vet 1 abilities. A lot of them are very useful. Floating kills you later from lower army size. That float turns to bleed. Always build mines. If you have extra munitions always build more mines, you can never have to many mines.

gg

After watching the match it looks more like small details that are holding you back. All these small mistakes build up into a pile of mistakes that result in a loss.

Some things I saw you could improve on:

Overall micro; at times you were fighting with squads and had other squads just sitting nearby not participating. Micro will generally improve with time spent ingame but focusing on keeping your units active will help you a large deal.

Once you saw his captain, you should know with the current meta he was going stuart. You need some form of AT ASAP. When the stuart hit the field you had a pak being built, but if he chased down the gren squad on his alpha attack (initial revealing attack of the unit) you would have lost a squad and had no way to stop his dive. If that was a t70 you could've kissed that squad goodbye. Allied players right now will go for light vehicles in higher level matches because light vehicles are so strong in the current meta. Premptive AT. Do it every match or you'll bleed out and lose the game to a light tank.

When you initially saw the fighting position in mid covering the VP, you can destroy that with your pak if you support the pak and/or you've forced considerable retreats. you eventually destroyed it with your P4 which is fine but you could've destroyed it earlier.

You seemed to be either indecisive or made a costly missplay with teching T4 because you unlocked the battlehpase but then built a 2nd P4. I'd suggest really waiting on teching t4 as Ostheer as the benefits are generally situational. If you do want T4 you should wait until you can at least be half way to getting the fuel for the required unit you want after the teching cost. This way you have fuel in the bank if things go badly and you need to rebuild a p4 or need a stug for AT.

This USF players main anti infatry was the Assualt engineers with flamers and then rifles with a single BAR and zook. If any player does that they're indecisive on the specilization of their rifles and will often force them to blob because they lack the AT or AI of just the 1 weapon and will need to compensate with another squad. If this happens give your infantry the best upgrades you can get, and blow his infantry out of the map. If you can't trade in infantry engagements you can't support your AT plateforms. Tanks can deal with infantry but are forced to kite even single grens out of fear of fausts. If nothing can stop your infantry you can run him over in the long run. You had multiple gren squads that needed LMG upgrades. Get those upgrades they aid a lot, and with LMG squads and just most squads in general use attack move so your squads fire a max range. This will allow for most time firing LMGs and avoid unneccessary deaths when you accidentally forget about a squad and run into a close quaters unit like sturmpios.

Your commander roster was a bit subpar for 1v1 gameplay. Elephants will hardly ever be used in 1v1 due to the higher chance of flanks and less friendly support of heavy tank destroyers. Plus the maps are much smaller. Mechanized is probably the strongest Ostheer commander at the moment due to its callins and ability to skip teching. On this map I would have been very suitable to use Assualt Grenadiers as it was a medium to close range map. the Stug Es would have been highly effective against all the infantry running around and could've dealt with the stuart much quicker. also carries a Tiger for the late game.

At one point in the early game I saw a gren squad move closer to a Assualt engineer squad just to get into light cover, however when your squad got there the engineers were there aswell. Cover is negated within 10 units of distance unless the cover is a garrison or is negative cover. If you have to close in for cover with a close quaters unit also closing in in the same direction, just put your squad in cover somewhere else or fight where your squad is good. Grens at long range in open still beat Assualt engineers and will either force him to disengage, charge you, or retreat.

I did notice the capping order was rather lacking, just use the minimap or tac map to see what connects to where. If nothing else just go in order from closest to farthest.

Mines win games

Last point, You did this all in with your 2 p4s trying to kill 1 wolverine while he still had a sherman in support. Lost them both then tried to followup with your infantry and lost 4 squads 2 of which were your pios. THEN you called in a Tiger. Don't all in just before your heavy tank shows up. You lost so much that the tiger was highly ineffective and lost in about 1 minute. If you could've supported that tiger with both p4s and all 4 of those lost squads plus you needed the repairs from the pios. You could've pushed him to bleed to death or secured at minimum 2 VPs.

Overall just small mistakes that lead to larger ones. Hopefully this info helped and Hector will hopefully pickup on some things I missed or you were confused on. Feel free to ask questions if there is something you don't understand or have any questions ingeneral.

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