Profile of Corp.Shephard

I've found the only saving grace against multiple Kubelwagons is the M20 Utility Car.

Tech aggressively. Your first 50 fuel should go for a Lieutenant immediately. I personally suggest getting a fuel cache very early. If I go Rifle Company then I will often pick up a build order like this:

• Rifleman
  
• Second Rear Echeleon Squad
  
• Veteran Riflemen Squad
  
• Build Fuel Cache with 2nd RE.
  
• LT
  
• M20
  

Modifying the build is pretty easy for different Companies; just get Two Rifles then RE if you're not Rifle Company. This particular order works well because of the Vet Call-in timing.

Play carefully. Use buildings and cover to give up as little ground as possible. Don't try to engage a Kubelwagon unless you have 3 squads ready to attack from multiple angles. Don't tax your forces excessively before the M20 arrives. It is your golden ticket moving forward.

You need 70 fuel before he gets 70 fuel. It should be pretty easy to outpace him though even if you struggle for map control as he gets less fuel and won't get his Mechanized HQ up very quickly. It comes down to a matter of stalling with your starting forces.

When the M20 comes out at about ~5 minutes then you have a window that must be exploited immediately. Grab Armored Skirts on it but don't wait for the upgrade. Rush the Kubels immediately. There's no need for subtlety. Build up speed and get behind them. Their rear armor is weak and the M20 will tear them apart in seconds. A single Panzerschreck will not stop the M20: it takes two shots to kill the M20 and if your Armored Skirts upgrade completes then it will take three.

The biggest danger is a mine. Thankfully the Sturmpioneers have a lot of work to do between capturing points, repairing kubels and fighting. There's not much time to drop mines unless you really stumbled into Kubel suppression. Keep tabs on the Sturmpioneers and their position. Could a mine have been laid? Avoid that area with the M20. If you can kill the Sturms or cause them to retreat early game then you did well.

When I play a double Kubel build I always follow my Kubelwagons up with a Puma. Your M20 should score you at least one Kubelwagon kill. Hopefully two. It will break the "spell" that the Kubelwagons have on the map. Follow your M20 up with immediate Bazooka research. After you kill some Kubelwagons he'll retreat and wait for the Puma. Switch out your crew in the M20: the Bazooka Boys inside are valuable against the Puma. Give your second Rear Echelon Squad two Bazookas back at home. With three Bazookas you can scare the Puma away easily. Grab some .50 Caliber HMG squads to protect your critical squads. .50 Caliber HMG is also a good counter to the Kubelwagon. It has enough firepower to kill a Kubel from the front.

Where you go from there is up to your tastes. I suggest a fast Major. Your early fuel cache and mid-game map control from the M20 will give you a healthy boost of fuel. Grab some of your favorite tanks and seal out the game!

Accuracy is not a factor when it comes to light vehicle vs light vehicle.

The Target Sizes are on that graph. Accuracy is mulitplied by target size.

The Kubel's worst accuracy is at max range which is ~.15. .15*18 = 2.7. Even if the Kubelwagon is moving it should hit... every single shot? The reverse is basically true for the M3A1 though.

Armor is the key in these battles and the M3A1's better armor gives it the edge. That and it can have a squad it in every time.

The biggest difference is damage per bullet though. M3A1 does 10 damage per shot. Kubelwagon does 4.

That's why sometimes an M3A1 will just crush a Kubelwagon. If it penetrates a lot of shots in a burst it can do more damage than a Bazooka or the like.

... but the Kubel ain't one!

New Kubel's are silly strong if ya got the moxie and micro to use them.

My Mechanized Breakthrough strategy that I've become quite fond of in action against a competent US team.

Posting this mostly for my own reasons. Still it ain't a bad show.

If you watch the video there's strong evidence that there was a cache on the point.

The player killed it with a Panther and then stuka'd the point. If he didn't have munitions then he could have used Stormtroopers with infiltration to decap it. If he didn't have munitions or manpower then he could have used Breakthrough and de-captured the point with a Panther for 40 fuel almost instantly.

Encirclement can use every single type of resource to support this game winning artillery.

There's no justifiable excuse for an artillery strike being quite this powerful in my opinion.

This attack literally kills everything on the map. Like. Literally. The video proves it. That's insane!

Imagine two close-air support players playing along side two Encirclement Doctrine players. Close air support can convert fuel into munitions. One player uses a scout plane over the cutoffs. Close Air Support player uses Stuka Bombing Run.

I'm willing to bet a Stuka Bombing Run could destroy the cache -and- decap the point with a single strike.

Then the encirclement artillery starts and it's game over.

It just seems so insane. It's so powerful it kills all of the infantry and all of the tanks in every sector?

This artillery barrage automatically attacks front-line sectors even if there is no cutoff. Even in a worst case scenario you are still getting value out of the strike. That's madness. I hear that the strength of the "frontline" bombardment is weaker but that still means this bombardment has a skill floor. If your cutoff fails you still get something out of it. If it succeeds you win the game.

A flimsy cache is not a reasonable defense against a game-winning play.

Wehrmacht's medical pack is too expensive for my tastes.

20 munitions each pack and it takes a while to use them means there's a pretty high opportunity and munitions cost.

Soviet Trip Wire Flares are actually really good if you have the "macro" to keep up with them. Each flare averages one model killed (some none, some 2). I've seen tripwire flares kill half a Fallscrimjager squad when they were too bunched up as they rounded a corner. It's good stuff.

Perhaps most valuable is the intel though. Plant them on every road and every path and you'll know every enemy movement. A certain part of the Soviet mid-game tends to be Soviets holding ground that they gained early game and trying to weather the storm until heavier armor can arrive. Trip wire flares let you prepare for the enemy effectively while sapping their strength.

I'm like massively off topic now though.

Medical packs are very limited utility. They're okay. It's actually probably fine for them to have a very niche use anyways. Wehrmacht has plenty of good places to spend munitions.

The new patch may see a resurgence of Ostruppen as well. The 6 man squads will benefit greatly from medical packs. We'll see.