Profile of LoopDloop

Thanks for your Advice !
So we should try to rush them with our UC's so they get early behind but from the momentum when the volksgrenadeers have the fausting abilty the UC's seem to be useless should we throw them from then on now ?

The UC is actually not that hard to keep alive when he has fausts (as long as you don’t get the freaking wasp). You just need to make sure to stay at max range and you’ll be well out of the range of fausts, especially okw (volksgrenadier) fausts since IIRC they have a shorter range than ost (grenadier) fausts. The UC also does more damage at max range, so there’s never any reason to close anyway. Like rosbone said, you should always be kiting his infantry, which is probably just something you may need to practice more. The vickers K (machinegun) upgrade for the UC is also usually much better than the wasp (flamethrower) upgrade, since the flamethrower has a shorter range and thus harder to keep alive.

As for the other stuff just make sure you are aware of the field (also takes practice) and know if and when a flank is coming, and reposition your mgs to cover it. Your infantry sections can usually beat early okw infantry 1 on 1 pretty reliably and the vickers should help a lot as long as you keep them firing. Keeping the vickers in key buildings can be helpful too, since they can face other directions a bit faster in buildings and have better cover, but you need to watch for flamenades and be aware that some buildings don’t have windows on some sides or the windows are blocked by something like a hedgerow.

Commandos are really good in the midgame but take a fair bit of micro and practice to be used really effectively, but they are a potential solution if you're still having trouble with his infantry.

One decent spot is on any intersection of a road that actually will get traveled (not right at the edge of the map etc.), especially if your opponent isn’t using minesweepers. That’s because vehicles tend to choose roads as pathways since they go faster on them and are therefore just more likely to travel over that area, especially at an intersection. Keep in mind he may know this and actively avoid such areas though. I avoid them like the plague, especially against ostheer lol.

Another good place is around corners just because his vehicles are also decently likely to travel there. I’m talking about stuff like the hedgerows on the map crossroads (especially the one on the right by the fuel if you’re at the bottom) or the destroyed building by the top muni point on kholodny. At least in my experience, there’s a pretty good chance that vehicles will at some point or other be coming around such corners and tend to hug the corners, so I like to put mines right there too.

Not only conscript, but getting 1-2 for support helps a lot. One penal + one conscript will be better off attacking 1 volks + one JLI if you have mollies teched than 2 penals.

Do Molotovs actually make up for conscripts’ garbage dps and RA though?

Thanks for the suggestions guys. Always nice to hear other ideas.

The truck can cap, so there's a decent argument for building the truck first and letting it Kubel around for a bit until you've got 45 munitions. It'll cap faster than a Rifleman squad because it moves between points faster.

Yeah I’ve always thought about that but I’ve yet to try it. Sounds janky as hell, but I think it might work pretty well actually. I usually cap a bit with my first rifle squad if there’s no critical buildings to rush anyway because I don’t really trust only REs to support them properly against mg42/gren combo or sturmpios and volks anyway.

Patchnotes say that the victor creeping barrage on the Sexton no longer shares a cooldown with the main barrage but a) “victor creeping barrage” is not a real thing and b) both victor barrage and creeping barrage appear to have separate cooldowns; or at least the victor barrage will not fire if the main barrage is on cooldown.

Valentine patchnotes say it’s supposed to be 7 pop now but it’s still 12.