Profile of Corp.Shephard

Yeah.

Jagdtiger/Elefant one-shot kill the SU-76.

SU-76s are notoriously vulnerable units. They have low health and armor. If you suspect that he's trying to spam you should attempt to cull the herd early with a decisive combined assault early.

Panzergrenadiers with dual Panzershrecks are a good counter to the SU-76 as well. One volley from the squad will kill the SU-76. The SU-76 can't easily protect itself as it's auto-attack is useless against infantry.

A replay would be good. The uh... the SU-76 is not terribly well regarded because it sort of sucks. It's possible your team got way behind early game and the enemy's economic advantage was so huge that any unit would have won them the game. 8 is a lot of SU-76s!

To clarify: You faced against an arranged team, with voice chat and everything.

Spoilers:

I agree with about everything you said. Dual Kübels can be surprisingly good in the early game and almost can make up for the fact that you basically have two less units on the field once proper AT units arrive.

You played really well, Shepard - the Sturmtiger is no joke unit, to the contrary what some people may think. If it fires at the edge of his vision range it can catch you by surprise and almost certainly guarantees a unit wipe.

The M8 is way to accurate and cost effective against infantry, i mentioned that in another thread a while ago.

The King Tiger definitely was a bad choice. It died incredibly fast to the allied AT guns, which are more than alright against tanks. A Jagdtiger would have been a much, much better choice in my opinion, because there is nothing that can touch it, besides very risky all-ins.


And as a last note: Playing dual USA can be quite strenuous.

I agree. I had no idea my teammate was planning to go with a King Tiger.

I got a Panther instead of a Jagdtiger but I was afraid of things going bad. vps or so? We stalled it out for a while but I'm not convinced that the Jagdtiger would have arrived on time. The Panther did okay at dueling 'Easy Eight's and whatnot but against like... ~5-6 AT guns it was never going to actually save the day.

Just moving through the replay quickly I could have had the Jagdtiger at a relevant timing though... probably. The Panther stopped a fair amount of VP damage though through pressure.

The Jagdtiger would have been worth the risk.

If you don't want the match spoiled then stop reading now.

This was a real tough match that I thought would be fun to share. Random 2v2 match. I dunno if the Allies were a random pairing but I somewhat doubt it as I saw the pair twice in a row.

I've been trying to develop a good Dual Kubelwagon build for a while. The unit's undervalued I think and I have a fair amount of success with dual Kubels.

• Against M3A1s you can focus both Kubels and a Sturmpioneer to force it away.
  
• Against troops in green cover you can still suppress them with two Kubels focusing
  
• It's super hard to flank two Kubels
  
• They're really fun to use
  
• Once your Puma's out you're basically safe against armor.
  

The biggest issue is AT guns. AT guns are always a nightmare for OKW though. Walking Stuka's cooldown is a bit long to punish them and the Infantry Support gun is solid but unreliable. Instead I've been experimenting with the Sturmtiger.

This game was nightmarish. I felt like I played everything as well I as I could with the exception of the final flub where I lost like 3 pieces of armor in under 15 seconds. Fucking AT guns man. Anyone who says the US AT gun is bad is stupid as hell. So much range and vision is granted by that vet1 power. The Sturmtiger couldn't keep up with the 270 manpower monsters being spawned constantly. The M8A1 is so overpowered against infantry that it's impossible to keep your squads in good health while contesting the map and pushing the enemy AT guns away. I don't want to really write the Sturmtiger off.

Not to detract from Ginnuagap or SturmTigerGia's victory. They played well but I don't know how to counter that sort of force. In retrospect my Panther should have been a Jagdtiger but I don't think the Jagdtiger would have hit the field fast enough. Blast. Maybe the Jagdtiger would have been enough?

I'd make a guide for this strategy but my Graphics card is too weak to do videos right now so maybe later.

Enjoy.

I'm saying an armored car tank destroyer shouldn't counter every tank that one can conceivably build with tech. Not as well as it does.

While also having more health than light tanks and smoke at Vet0. While also arriving at ~6-7 minutes into the game.

It has so many perks going for it.

?? Either i don't understand what u mean, or something has been changed (and i don't know about it). Do you mean OKW has no fuel income reduction ?

I know I'm late to this party but let me quote where I explained this once before:

This is slightly pedantic but the 66% fuel income is slightly inaccurate for OKW.

All income from points is decreased by 66%. However all sides get a permanent +4 fuel at the start of the game which is not lowered for OKW.

Let's assume 1 fuel point, 5 strategic points. (~50% map control)

For normal player: 4 base + 15 strategic + 7 fuel = 26 fuel per minute.

For OKW player: 4 base + 10 strategic + 4.6 fuel = 18.6 fuel per minute.

18.6/26 = 71.7% fuel income of other sides with even map control.

OKW fuel income is a "moving target". In the first 10 seconds of the game they have 100% of the income of other sides. The percentage changes with every point captured but it is realistically closer to 70-72%.

... anyways! To get back on topic.


Puma does seem overpowered. Way too cost effective. Way too good at it's job. Maybe too good at other jobs like anti-infantry and scouting? It is uncharacteristically durable.

Why does it have 400 health when every light tank has 320? It has smoke without veterancy? It's an incredible package of abilities, vision, firepower and durability for cost.