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Just a quick note for people who like to take cinematic/realistic screenshots from replays and are annoyed with various UI elements appearing on units.

Normally, if you disable the replay taskbar, units will still keep their coloured icons above them, while If you disable the entire UI the icons will disappear but white stripes will appear on vehicles.

I just discovered you can take screenshots with both icons and stripes disabled, so the vehicles look as realistic as possible. If you disable the UI (Ctrl+U) before a vehicle enters the map, it will come in without stripes :



Note the little white stripes on the ambulance, which was called in before the UI was disabled, but no stripes on the E8.

Re-enabling the UI will make the stripes appear on the vehicle(s) in question.

I want to see the dev who thought making bulletins like these was a good idea. Genuinely intrigued to see what they look like, how they talk and what they think.

Just watched it. Had FoW turned on, so I only saw what you saw during the match.

You basically just didn't have answer to the opponent's crucial units (Vickers and Centaur) when you needed them. For Centaurs see comments below. Against the two Vickers, as you skipped T1 you had no mortars for barrage/smoke but you could've deployed the officer and used his smoke ability to avoid having to constantly retreat and leave the map for the opponent to cap.

You played well in terms of map control and unit preservation up until minute 12, where you lost three units (two of them very important) within a space of like 30 seconds.

* The 251 loss was easily avoidable -- you sent it in without any infantry scouting ahead. You did this a couple of times, and on minute 12 the opponent had two 6 Pounders waiting for that and punished your overly aggressive push

* The HMG loss was just Commandos doing their thing, but you should have deployed another one to replace it -- the British infantry had freedom to roam for the rest of the match

* The Osttruppen loss was less important but also easily avoidable -- you just didn't notice, but that happens

After that you were countered by the Centaur, and that combined with two 6 Pounders meant he had a combined force that shredded your infantry and protected the unit doing it from your armour. You would've needed PzIV+Pak to kill/force the Centaur away while also pushing against 6 Pounders with your infantry, but that scenario evaporated when you lost your PzIV, so I'd say that was the most crucial moment that cost you the game. You also compounded the problems by decisions like going for a Panzergrenadier squad with Panzerschrecks, which was a big mistake against the Centaur.

Overall I would say this was just one of those matches where one mistake led to a snowball effect and cost you the game. Your commander choice (not being able to easily counter two HMGs) and losses (251, HMG and PzIV) combined with lack of Tellers (which you mentioned in the original post) was enough to leave you with very little chance of recovering.

I don't think you're going to have many matches like this because you play well, but if you have had any other games that developed similarly, feel free to post another replay and I'll have a look.

I think he meant reserve infantry, you know where you pay 200 ammo for 2 or 3 squads at the most of Osttruppen who replace fallen models during that time.

Good point, that might have been about the Relief Infantry Osttruppen. If that was the case, I don't think one should expect from a cheap replacement infantry to be better in late game than they currently are.

In the late game, they are bad support the front line, although they have 6 man squad - they die very quickly.

This is not my experience -- I use the Mobile Defence Doctrine in 2v2/1v1 and the Osttruppen squads last much better as frontline infantry (covering team weapons) compared to Grenadiers and Panzergrenadiers, including in late game.

If you're referencing larger team games, the late-game s**tshow of meatgrinding arty fest and tank trains in those means no infantry squad survives well, so Osttruppen are not in some kind of especially disadvantageous situation.

You can also post a replay on these forums so we could have a better look at your specific experience with the Osttruppen.

Select a commander or spent ammunition to recrew MG/gun is not the rational.

I'm not sure I understood what you meant here - you don't need to spend ammo to recrew team weapons with Osttruppen.