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Very nice guide, about the Mechanized HQ, after u get a Panther, u can convert fuel to muni and spam Valiant assault and the other guys will wonder where does his infantry go. With the current meta, do you find any use for Sturmtiger or IR HT? I feel that they are mostly luxury unit. And about the Airborne assault, do not use it in the sector with the M8 or the 75mm GMC. Your falls will be killed as soon as they land, I found it the hard way in my last game.

I don't find any use for the IR Half-track currently. The unit is an luxury and I just don't have the resources for it.

I do believe in the Sturmtiger actually. It is a really silly unit but it has two things going for it:

1) Super destructive. This thing basically one-shots anything it hits. I've even seen monsters like IS-2s go down. It's crazy.

2) Although the range seems low it's actually just longer than 90% of enemy units vision range. If you screen it with Volks and keep the enemy busy then you can line up a shot an instantly kill whatever the Volks were fighting. Fire the Sturmtiger at max range and the enemy will never know that the shot is coming until it is too late.

All that being said though... I don't know if I can suggest it in a 1v1 in good faith. It costs nearly as much as a Panther (more manpower, less fuel) and while it can pay off in team games it's a huge gamble. I can't imagine a scenario where it would be the right choice.

If you went Lieutenant Tech then you already have your answer.

The American M15 Anti-Air Halftrack is better than the OKW version. When stationary, the M15 AA Halftrack will fire its 37mm cannon rapidly. The 37mm cannon will tear the OKW Flak-track to pieces.

Catch the OKW Flak-track offguard and it is easy pickings. It has to setup to fire and the US M15 can kill it before it sets up and fires at you.

If you went M20 Utility Car you have a few choices:
1) Take the crew out and fight it with a Bazooka. M20 crew has a Bazooka.
2) Park your M20 right next to the Flak-track. The Flak-track has a really small minimum range. It cannot hit things that are directly next to it. It also has to setup and "unsetup" so you can exploit that immobility to get close. This is the mirco-heavy counter but I've seen it work.
3) Plant an AT mine with the M20 car and hope it hits it.

You pretty much have no choice but to counter this thing with one of these two things if you go Lieutenant.

Scout for the HQ truck is my advice. If you don't see the medical Battlegruppe HQ (with the big cross on the back) then he's probably gone for the Mechanized Regimental HQ. Mechanized Regimental HQ is the one that builds the OKW Flak-Track.

Right. Volley Fire seems to have an "AoE" component too. This is generally how suppression works. Areas hit by "suppressive fire" will add suppression to all enemies in them. Too much suppression and you get suppressed and then pinned.

This volley fire is so scary between it's potency, reliability, flexibility and even AoE component.

Keep in mind that volley fire costs 20 munitions, and is followed by a cool down. Also at med to long range it takes a very long time for it to suppress/pin. in my experience the best and easiest way to deal with Rear Echelon Troops is to use your own mg's to pin them. also when you realize you are facing someone using 2 or more Rear Echelon Troops and are using the volley fire ability often, they are sacrificing their ability to buy upgrades unless they are sitting on munitions points and building munitions cache's.

and remember when facing units that can pin, you must keep your units spread out. also remember Rear Echelon Troops can only volley fire on one unit at a time. if they switch to fire at another unit the ability turns off and the cool down starts.

I hope that helps.

I'd actually say that most of this post is inaccurate. No offense.

I've seen Volley Fire suppressing and pinning at medium range incredibly fast. Short range is basically a 2 second pin and rivals a Heavy Machine Gun. Squads will even be suppressed at long range.

Volley fire doesn't actually go away immediately if you switch targets. It is possible to suppress units after you've moved with Volley Fire.

I even had this situation go down:
1) Sturmpioneer comes up, I pop volley fire, pin him, he retreats.
2) I walk over to the cut-off point. Like five seconds later I see some volks coming at me. Volley fire was used like ~8 seconds ago.
3) Me firing on the volks suppresses them.

There's a lingering effect that allows you to suppress. My initial reaction to this new volley fire was "I guess I just need to run into the fog of war when I see it happen" but the suppression is so fast and it doesn't go away when you break line of sight!

I'd argue that Cover is a good counter. Cover and range used to mitigate this ability very well in the Alpha. That being said I've suppressed troops and that were in green cover without even needing to flank. Green cover can protect you but it's a gamble.

The only good counter right now to deal with Volley Fire is buildings pretty much. Buildings and vehciles.

I can't imagine that Rear Echelon spam is very good right now though. The cost of the ability is a little prohibitive.

Oh! And you can use Volley Fire while in a building. It's just something that you can do. I've stolen a building and then spammed Volley Fire out of it like ~5 times in a row and completely dominated one game.

The ability is out of control right now.

It's all luck I imagine. I have gained 28 levels since WFA came out and gotten two of the exact same ambulance bulletins and one Volks bulletin.