Profile of Jae For Jett

There are 100000 ways to deal with lights without tier 2, like guards or m42.
Additionally 222 is weak against small arms fire, and 3 cons with at grenade will kill it

If you don't but tier 2 t70 will come in time to counter luchs.

Depends of course (the math was already done in this thread anyway). If you're stomping, which is unlikely considering OKWs early strength, you can get out your t70 at the same time. If you're even, though, the luchs will have around a 2 minute window before you get your t70 out. I'm of the opinion that penals with ptrs are good enough to hold it off and really worth getting, but the fact remains that the t70 has a noticeably later fuel timing; whether this timing is proper or not is... a much longer discussion.

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I don't doubt that you could also make it into the top 10 with how the ladder currently is. Still, you assume I bash noobs because of what reason, exactly? Also, if you're saying that im a better player than you because i have more time to play (not sure if this is what you mean or not), then, well, you just said that im a better player (not that I myself meant that I was better anyway). Also, to be clear, I didn't mean to say that you are a low rank, sorry if thats what it seemed like. I meant that mobile assault has more relative strength the lower skilled the players in the game are. I guess you could think of it as me proposing an equation in which the relative effectiveness of mobile assault is inversely proportional to player skill. Actually, I'm not even sure why my rank or how I got it even became a part of the discussion.

Yeah, I agree that the main purpose of flamers is to force the enemy from garrisons, so its cool we agree on that. Not sure why you mentioned that though. I guess you thought I was implying that the "purpose of flamers is to burn squads alive in garrisons" for some reason?

I also agree that commandos can be greatly used even against good players. Youre also correct that a top player cannot control the path of a retreating squad once the retreat button is pressed. My point on that was more about the efficiency and how much harder it becomes the more skilled the enemy is (again, effectiveness inversely proportional to enemy player skill).

Yeah, I really oversold the "land mattress is only for cheeky wipes idea," that was a mistake by me. Still, I alluded to its use against weapon teams/defensive lines which you expanded upon in your reply.

My apologies, I shouldnt have made assumptions about how you use the doctrine/ when you get a land mattress, especially when (as you said) theres a guide on this very site that could have given me actual information about this. I did read the guide, but it appears I don't quite remember the specifics. Anyway, like you said, if you go land mattress after your first medium tanks, then the land mattress doesnt delay your teching, so disregard my point on that. I'd prefer to have a croc instead of a comet + land mattress, and I would argue that the croc is actually stronger in general, but with so many things to consider (play style, situation, etc.) I guess either one will be the better, given different conditions.

Obviously mobile assault works excellently for you. But maybe its because of how your play style matches with the doctrine? If thats the case, i dont think you could call it the best. I always use USF tactical support in 1v1s because it works with my play style and build, but I still wouldnt say its the best USF 1v1 doctrine. When claiming a doctrine is the best, I think it would be best to make a claim based on objective power (not that we can objectively say much about doctrines...). The fact that most of the top ukf players (going by ladder, unfortunately im not sure which doctrine the VERY BEST players like luvnest, devm, theodosios, noganno prefer when they go ukf) go special weapons only reinforces my belief that special weapons is the best doctrine. Maybe you can make mobile assault the best doctrine for YOU, but that doesnt make it the best. As far as I'm aware deep dark fantasy, royal hants, burmie, guard and helping hans all favor tactical support now.

Honestly though, I hate skipping the aec because the vet1 ability is insanely good, especially since it's not broken any more. Almost always results in a dead tank (even panthers/kts) if pulled off right and it can't really be countered except with good general awareness.

The issue there is that with the two treadshots from the aec, you miss out on 160 damage, which in a lot of practical cases, is the amount of extra damage you'll be allowed to do with your auxiliary AT. Instead of outright finishing off the vehicles in the two shots from the aec, you spend both shots doing reduced damage and giving your opponent the extra time to at least trade his tank for your aec. Seeing as how the treadshots have to penetrate to first do their slow then their immobilize, and the ability becomes very conditional.
All of that said, yeah, its an excellent ability when its use case arises, but near useless in every other case.

expain why ? what is better than flamer, wiping machine and on map arty - thats all tools who brits lack

Not ALL of the tools that brits lack.
AT sections give you a snare, long range vehicle spotting (fun fact: they even spot goliaths, camouflaged or not), and the ability to skip the aec.

Assuming the enemy doesnt get AT (admittedly rare), the HT allows constant pressure and lmgs without tech. Also, a HT with a a double vickers section inside wipes squads about as easily as a luchs does, all without the terrible on the move accuracy of the luchs.

The two other muni abilities come too late and cost too much to be that useful. They're great when you happen to have the cp and munis, but I just think thats too rare to count these abilities in the doctrines favor. Not as useless as a lot of abilities in most other doctrines, just very situational.

Finally, the croc. Get 1 croc, 2 AT guns, and a baseline amount of infantry squads and you'll win the game unless the enemy has a KT or double panthers. Add a firefly, and I honestly cant think of a more efficient late game army composition.



Special weapons summary:
Snares, vehicle spotting, speeds up teching by allowing you to bypass the AEC and possibly weapon racks, conditionally useful muni abilities, probably the best single callin vehicle in the game.

Mobile assault summary:
Flamers, commandos (instawipes, and flanks, but also slightly inefficient/poor scaling squads, especially against someone with decent micro to avoid gammons), land mattress wipe machines, pretty heavily delayed teching if you get a land mattress, crew repairs which I guess are pretty good.

I can see mobile assault being a contender against special weapons on maps with a lot of buildings. I think another factor is that mobile assault probably works better in lower ranks/ is more effective the lower skilled the players are. Flamers are better played around by better players (though probably not to that large of an extent, flamers are still flamers), commandos are better played around and better nullified by better players, land mattresses are better played around by better players (less panic retreating, smarter blobbing, better defensive unit/weapon team positioning).

I would say this is false. None of the Allied tank are what I consider potent against mass infantry unless it's a lucky Sherman HE shell. and Panzer IV at least can get tripe machine guns and its gun isn't terrible against infantry. It does quite alright when it lands hits. Ostwinds main issue is it inability to hit through objects or terrain.

Comparing a p4 to a cromwell, sure, id say the p4 has the advantage because of the triple mgs like you said. But comparing a p4 to a sherman, id say the sherman is squarely better. The same triple mgs in addition to HE shells, it just feels like it can really devastate infantry.