Profile of Golradaer

Are you talking about HTD being OP or something else?

+1, would read again. Do you have any other equally incisive critiques you could point me to?

It may have been worth back-teching to Tier 1 at some point for Grenadiers instead of additional Panzergrenadiers, it's only like 120 MP for the building I believe. Against Tier 3 I find Panzerfausts to be indispensable.

Awesome to see the howitzer in a 1v1! It actually did quite well with 30 kills, certainly paying for itself, and dealing with some annoying Maxims and 120mms. I wasn't watching the Field Artillery Officer constantly, and it looked like you were low on munitions, but the smoke barrage could have been useful in the mid/late game against those Maxims to allow your Panzergrenadiers to charge in.

Also, those scout cars were so cost effective in the early game. They had around 15 kills each even before upgrading to deal with the T-70, and wiped a couple of Maxim squads entirely. Just considering reinforcement costs, each 80 MP unit took out at least 300 MP.

I haven't mentored for quite a few years, so I think this will be fun. I'm Peter, 24 years old and from Arizona. I played vCoH a lot from launch to the release of OF, and not really at all after that, but CoH2 has kept my interest and I think it's moving in the right direction. I also wrote the multiplayer content in Prima's official CoH2 eGuide.

In the last few months I've been playing far more team games than 1v1s, but that's been changing recently.

Many of you seem to be pretty experienced players so we should have some interesting discussions.

Here's what we'll do:

1. I'll first watch several replays from each of you. Please post 3-5 replays in which you lost or barely won. I want to get a feel for how you play in a variety of situations.

2. You write up a short analysis of your play overall, strengths and weaknesses.

3. I will expand on what you've written based on your games. Also, I'll point out a few things I'd like you to specifically focus on.

4. You continue to post replays in which you struggled or about which you have tactical/strategic queries along with a self-analysis of your play and I'll comment on them.

This process will repeat until you have reached your desired level of play.

We can and very likely will also play games and watch replays together over Mumble (on an ad hoc basis), but as replay reviews can be done asynchronously, they can keep us moving forward regardless of scheduling. Add me on Steam (Golradaer from Arizona) and feel free to message me at any time. If you guys are interested in watching replays as a group, let me know and we can set it up -- I think this could be fun.

There are a lot of resources from CoH1 that are relevant, so I'll post up links to them over the next week as I search through my bookmarks.

I beat it earlier without stalling, tried it yesterday to record it, got it on my second try.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QHb9BXsceA
Skip to 6.22
Pgrens>pak
Since this is the only fun TOW ive practiced it alot, so if you have any questions. Feel free to ask

Getting the vet 3 ZiS before the tank waves by using the barrage ability on infantry is a great idea -- I think this was key. It's too bad the Panzergrenadiers took so long to get veterancy themselves.