Profile of rumartinez89

Had a weird day with the servers got placed against someone named Peanut who I think is a top 50 player, needless to say he kicked my ass good. Then I had a few games with massive lag. Restarted the game and I think I got a better server.

Started off with eni/clowncar/Penal x3, I have played against him before and he has rushed a scout car against me before. I make PTRS penal, he never makes car so thats cool. We harrass each others gas, and in a moment of not paying attention he wipes a penal squad which ain't cool. I see that he has PG so not only am I down a unit he also has an elite inf. I have shocks but they are not the best for this map due to shock blockers being close to the fringes of the map.
Then I notice he goes for G43 upgrades, guess my shocks ain't gonna be so useless after all. He also keeps trying to hide his units with ambush camo, so I end up making a 120 mortar to punish his static play. It works, don't get a lot of kills but some solid hits force him to keep moving around. I lose my clown car but decide to remake it just in case I need some PTRS shenanigans.
He has map control so he gets his tank out first which doesn't end up doing much until I get my T3485 out, we poke and prod each other but nothing really happens until I get caught with my pants down. He got 2 snares off back to back so he goes in for the kill. I try to reverse over the path of one of my mines but he doesn't push forward enough to get snared. As I am about to lose my tank to his push, my lazy ass PTRS Penals finally decide to show up with a well placed flank and box him in, get the snare then kill.
We are back to tankless fights but I start to get more map control back he gets another P4 and I get another T3485 along with a 2nd mortar. He has a hard time attacking my mortars so even though they aren't racking up the most kills they literally change make most engagement go my way due to all the hp damage they are doing.
He ends up getting a brumbar which messes me up for a bit but I know my mortars are annoying the hell out of him. I end up killing his P4 and wipe a gren with mortar strike. Little by little game is going my way, VP are definetly in my favor, and the arty half track he made is failing to wipe my mortars.
He ends up making a panther and Pushes me with his army, he gets to close and I push back his Brumbar with a AT satchel while attacking his army with 3 T34, I kill a Shrek PG and beat up his Panther but he kills 2 tanks and gets away.
Shit is looking bleak once again but I rush my infantry before he can set himself up, for my efforts I am rewarded with his retreating brumbar cutoff from the rest of his army. I get another satchel off and kill it. I start to build another Tank to help with the last Panther. Army sizes are comparable but a lot of his army is AT focused. we go back and forth a few times and I end up snaring his Panther with At satchel and kill it off. Mortars are paying off heavily, but I guess he finally decides to go all in with infantry and steals a mortar while killing my tanks when I try to kill his stug.
I have him down to 20 points but I lost a lot I am only down to 27 pop, on the replay he had ~70pop. I say GG, thinking it is all over but I decide to play til the end since it is my last game of the day. I decide to make a Katy and keep my Shocks out there as much as possible, their durability allows me to hold on and win as little by little I rebuild my infantry. His AT at this point is pretty much useless so I am able to keep the pressure on with volleys and smoke grenades.
I win. GG

I think if he went for LMG and Stugs earlier he probably would have won. His Panther was useless for AI and his Panzerwerfer didn't really pay off. His brumbar was a beast though.

Been going Soviet Shock vs OKW to shake it up from my usual commanders. Game ended up going to about 1 hour, both of us under 50 points. Spammed the hell out of delayed fuse, got up to about 40 kills on mortar

Opened with engi to clown car started capping and noticed he had Fussies. I sent my engi/car to cap while my penal stalled his attempt to decap my cutoff. We trade back and forth with me getting several decaps to stall him and he cut me off a few times also. Get Shock troops to scare him off whenever I flank him.

I eventually get a 120 mortar that starts to put more and more engagements my way due to him blobbing up his PF, after a bit of back and forth I wipe 1 with a satchel but he gets the Penal as it retreats. Felt like I came out ahead due to him losing Vet and muni sunk in it.

I get T3485 out and use it to cause a little bleed and stall any pushes. I feel I am in the lead now with double 120 mortars killing all his pushes. I decide to attack Schwerer after I see P4J to delay any other Tanks from hitting the field. I use mortars to smoke and get the kill with satchels and arty strike. However, he pushed me at the same time killed my T3485 and stole a mortar.

Game has now swung heavily in his favor, but I do have a T34 on the way. I pretty much stall, let my mortar due its thing while he keeps harassing my cutoff. After a few pokes I finally get my PTRS Penal out on the flank. I then attack him head on and push back his raks and his army while getting the AT Satchel off.

This is my chance so I rush in and get the kill with literally 1 hit worth of HP left. I fall back, repair my army and build 2nd T3485. Points are heavily in his favor but army composition is in my favor. I little by little bombard his team weapons with delayed fuses for massive damage while holding on to VP. He finally gets the KT on the field which means he hasn't been building replacement units. I attack him but end up losing a shock troop. I call in arty which kills a vetted PF squad so good trade I guess, we keep prodding each other until I flank him again and get AT satchel off.

It is go time, send 2 T3485 and SU85 and rush in while my Vet3 Shock troop harasses his Raks. I get the kill but lose 1 T3485 and have to repair the other. Game is again in my favor as I call in another T3485 and literally try to bleed him as much as possible when he tries to cap VP. He never replaces lost inf squad, only going for MG which is annoying at first however once I know their positions Shocks force them to retreat.

He calls in another KT but he doesn't have the army to press me, so I take my time and scout with a unit so Raks dont catch me slippin. I keep flanking him so he gets really hesistant with his KT which allows me to hold on to middle VP. Once he drops to last 20 he sends his entire army to middle as do I. I stop the decap and win. GG

What is the motivation behind the bigger sandbags for conscripts versus the smaller one all other factions have?

The smaller sandbags can easilier be placed next to world-objects while the conscript-sandbags require more room around it. No idea what the difference in stats is, but I'd prefer a swap to the smaller sandbags.

Not sure, but I think it has to do with the larger squad size and all models benefiting from cover while not clumping up.

The leIG already does that. Instead of a stun, it forces units to go prone messing with cover and firing cycles.

Suppression on indirect was tried and it made the game REALLY stale.

Exactly, with suppression running in and continued fire from infantry kept the suppression active on the enemy whereas with the stun effect it would only be inflicted by the mortar round.

I have found myself using the same commanders over and over, mainly due to synergy with T1. I always have NKVD, Defense tactics and Airborne in my loadout and gotten a little bored so I have been trying out other commanders such as Counter attack and Shock army which has been fun even if they don't work out as well as I would like sometimes. I also like Lend lease but constantly find myself floating muni.

How about you guys? Have any of you tried something differently recently for what ever reason? What was it and how it work out for you.

Also just saw a game where Scotts did work so I might try some USF again with some of the non-meta commanders.