Profile of AvNY

A lot of the problem comes from the vehicle design in COH2. The vehicle side has no "side" armor, it is a 50% chance of being front armor and a 50% chance of being rear armor. This actually makes it a pretty poor model of real combat.

In real life, flanking or ambushing a Panther and shooting it from the side even with the regular US tank guns would penetrate. That means you only have to get somewhat to the side (not completely perpendicular or to the rear) to the Panther to nit side armor, which was weak. In COH2 even if you are well past the 90 deg. markt he Pnather has a 50% chance of using "front armor" for its penetration calculation.

50cm Puma - only 100 of these were ever made. If it had been effective against Allied armor I am sure you would have seen a whole lot more of these made.

this is it really...; not just KT, Tiger, Pak, or MGs but so many other german units late game.

late game, germans have best of the everything. best infantry, best support weapons, best tanks, best tank destroyers, best artilleries, etc etc. that is the biggest problem in 3v3+. while germans get best of everything late game and get stronger, allies have to keep inflicting damage on them while preserving units because caches will help germans replenish just as fast as allies.

It's no wonder they won the war.

http://www.coh2.org/file/6144/what-the-fuck.rec

Game goes well until 16th minute. Get my Tank Depot up and things look good. Gets destroyed a few minutes later though when his Panthers charge me....seems ATguns is the way to go. They do alot of damage!

Get 3 ATguns that I have together cause if I spread my army out then his blob will probably charge and destroy one army at a time. Now however he still decrews two at a time instead

You don't have to blob, but you do have to stay close enough to support your units.

So one AT is good until he get the Panthers. If you sense they are coming (he had a lot of fuel or you don't see lots of vehicles being built) then get another and an additional piece of AT (M10, Rangers, Airborne RR). Have an MG, an M8, a flamer and rifle or within range of the AT's and MG and he can't blob to kill your crewed weapons. And stickies. A slowed Panther, if you still have AT gun, is a dead panther.

PE Panthers should not scare you. Remember a couple of things about them.
- without vet they are very penetrable from behind by almost any AT (including Ranger Bazooka). Try to kill them before they get vet.
- Their main guns can barely hit infantry.
- They can't cap.
This is very important. If you hold a lot of map he is using 24 of his popcap for those panthers so he might be unit constrained.

I was lucky he never killed my medics. That would have forced me to concede 20min earlier.
I should have built a sniper or mortar but I was scared of his 'mines from the sky' and getting runned over by Panhers, Wirbelwinds, sniped by the 88, charged by the blob....so I went for more ATguns.

I don't think mortars are not very good vs. PE. PE is nimble and mortars are slow to hit. The AB mortar from the supply drop is different. Man it with rifles and it costs you only 81 mp to reinforce that squad. ANY 81 mp unit is pretty worthwhile even if you just use it to cap.

Wirblewinds are not as scarey as Ostwinds. They are not so accurate from a distance and can do little to no damage to vehicles. If you can, get a sticky on them, but don't lose men to do it. 1 AT will keep them off of you.

AT guns are great in the sense that they can be cheaply re-crewed. A nice choice instead of the m8 is the Halftrack quad. they cost less manpower and fuel than an m8, lots of anti-inf against the blob (though they need help suppressing), and when it is around you can reman ATs or man Supply drop weapons and then reinforce the squads right there. Quads are also effective anti-PE vehicle. They can't dent a Puma, but they can do a lot of damage to ACs and PE halftracks.

The M2 Howitzer was great! Should have built another one, more ATguns, a jeep near the hedgerow, snipers and have the engineers wall off things.

Tank depot....bad idea vs PE huh?

I am not a fan of the howitzer against PE at all. Or the off-map, as PE can get out of the way pretty quickly, and those munitions are better spent on defensive mines (to keep ACs from chasing you into your base or keep you from getting flanked), stickies, ranger thompsons, AP rounds on your AT (they increase both penetration AND damage).

TD is a good idea against PE but not if you see "tank destroyer" tactic. m10s can chase down all their light vehicles and any wounded or stickied panthers, though use them cautiously. Shermans too have enough anti-vehicle and anti-infantry to handle all but the panthers and Hetzers, and they can help with those, particularly with upgun.

There are already FG42s.... Fallschirmjaegars.

Another piece of German fantasy kit Relic pulled out of the historical dustbin.

The FG42 was quite unreliable and mechanically defficient in its first incarnation and it is unclear how many of the 2nd (and 3rd) were produced but it was in the low thousands and was not without mechanical issues itself.

The Russians had almost 100,000 BARs, maybe they should be an upgrade package for Cons or Shocks in the Lend Lease commander? (The original WWI m1918 production was given to the soviets, there were about 100,000. The m1918A2 was the one mass produced for the US in WWII.)

a stuart to counter puma?
Puma will beat stuart 100% of the time.

Hmmm. Someone stated Taxman is a decent player. I am not so sure. No one but him has ever complained about the Puma in a Stuart/Puma balance. No one but him has complained that the problem with OKW is that their opening game suffers against rifles.

If I take the two comments together (decent player card, complaining about OP USF) I am thinking perhaps he is complaining because he is only sometimes winning with a faction others seem to use much more effectively.

Just a supposition from reading this thread.