Profile of Rosbone

Pretty cool looking pic I made while getting background shots.

legendary!

I just wanted to get the ball rolling... I expected to see 100's of great memes already! Where are all the twitch chat warriors?

Very interesting Rosbone. This type of build makes so much more sense. So in regards to OKW tech route, should one go inf w/ IG-18S pack arty and the halftrack.while other OKW player go luchs II and stukas? while both tech to tier 3? or should they each have both tier 2s before tier 3.

I am not a strategist. And Sturmpanther gave you the best generic builds probably. But it will depend on your skills and what enemy you are facing. And also at what time you are teching.

Teching early to T1 you can benefit from:
- Flak Halftrack - Strong early. Best anti-air late game behind your line. Needs a lot of micro.
- ISG to attack static objects or smoke MGs for flanking.
- IR halftrack to spot for AT weaponry and indirect fire mid to late game.
- The all important Healing.
- Save fuel so you can tech T3 sooner.

Teching late to T2 you get:
- P2 Luchs - Used to be meta, now just a shadow of its former self. Still OK if early.
- PUMA - Rarely seen in 4v4 unless AEC is wrecking you and you need better mobile AT. Or you plan to blob them.
- Stuka - Excellent indirect.
- Vehicle repair.
- Costs a lot of fuel so T3 comes later.

That is the domain where this game is really fun. Your build has to be fluid and counter what you will be facing. Otherwise it would be boring. Like 1v1 boring

This is extremely helpful Panther, thank you! we usually go 4x werh or 3x wehr and 1x OKW at most

Sturmpanther is a pro! To expand on Sturmpanthers point #2:

Having two OKW players lets you dominate the fuels early game. In 4v4 you always rush the fuel. Do not take any points on the way. Straight to the fuels. Except if your are on Steppes bottom or Redball fuel side. You can time it with your partner to take the points as you are moving over them in sequence. You may need to pause on a point for a second or two to get in sequence.
It is beneficial to have one OKW per fuel to have that early presence. So the middle players may need to play opposite sides if the game starts you with both OKW on one side. You want sturms and MGs on both sides.

MATCHUPS:
A) Soviet players will need to tech before coming to fight. You will already own everything by then.
B) USF initially will only have Rear Echelons against your sturms. You will own everything and be backed up by MGs before they have a strong infantry presence.
C) BRITs are tough for OKW since they have good infantry, will be there early, and will be followed by an MG. Some maps you can actually do better to push the mid and flank in behind the brit player if your first engagement is not going well.

OST PLAYER LOADOUT:
The tough choice in 2v2 and 4v4 is if you need to spam mortar or not. Allied players will assume you will have MGs and your sturms will have all the points held, so they may spam MGs and mortar to annihilate your army.

Or they may blob and run you over since your mortars will not do much to the moving mass. If it looks like your OKW team mate is smashing them early you may want more mobile infantry to continue the pressure and shove those allied bastards right back into their bases

I suggest making a build like MG and Gren. Then more grens or mortars depending on the early engagments.

For 1v1 and 3v3 it is best to spam infantry as the map size nullifys team weapon play. It is more of a blobfest. In a 3v3 whoever has the bigger blob wins. So join forces with your team mates and all attack one enemy at a time. He will be decimated, then its a 3v2. Rinse and repeat.

I forgot to mention the MEME commanders:
SOVIETS:
URBAN DEFENSE - The most crazy OP commander of all time on city maps. Lienne Forrest you can make 2 or 3 HQs and have the enemy pinned in their base in under 10 minutes. Dont forget to make the meme at gun because you will behind in teching and will need something to stop flamer halftracks.

OST
ENCIRCLEMENT DOCTRINE
A few maps are very easy to use CLOSE THE POCKET. Redball Express, LaGleize, and coming soon Fields of Winnekendonk.

And as TheGentlemenTroll mentioned the bulletins that extend your grenade or faust distances can be game changers.