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I'll take a look at this one tonight.

Here you go:


In your initial capping order, instead of walking your MG through your pio squad and setting it up, you should let your mg finish capping and send the pios out ahead. Letting another squad scout for MGs is very important, and you would have had more territory faster.

Sending your 2 grens to the opposite side of the map from your MG isn't ideal, as ostheer you really want to let your units support eachother. You end up being forced off of that side and losing a lot of territory. If you had sent your MG to support your grens and attacked the middle of the map you would have had a higher chance of success.

At about 5 minute sin you are floating a lot of MP and fuel, try to remember to tech sooner!

When you successfully fausted the m3, you should have pushed more aggressively and at least made an attempt to kill it.

@ 10:20 you see the huge blob. Move your MG! It is tempting to leave weapons teams alone, but you should try your hardest to move them around the map, not only to make them as useful as possible at all times, but to make them harder to flank. You move it a bit later, but by then he's taken that half of the map.

At this point, you have over 300mp, and there's half a dozen enemy infantry squads. Don't be afraid to build a second MG if you feel you need it. Another option would have been a fuel OP to get to your armor sooner.

You could have killed the t-34 that you fausted if you had immediately chased it with grens to give vision. Additionally, you had the fuel for a PIV for a long time; you could have had your tank ready when the t-34 came.

At 21:30 you send the pak to cover your PIV, but it walks a long way before firing. Try attack moving the pak if it isn't in danger. You can always re-face it once it gets its first shot off.

You need to keep your pak with your tanks, just like you need to keep your MG with your grens. A pak and a stug and a PIV beats 3 t-34 if microed correctly (and you had the gren support while he had almost no infantry).

Last thing: you surrendered early. He had 3 tanks, but he only had 3 infantry squads to your 8(!!). The game was not over.

TL;DR:

You fight without cover a lot. Move your units into cover when you bring them into combat.

Keep your troops together; MGs with grens, paks with tanks, etc.

Are you using control groups for important units? Maybe put your pak on a hotkey, put your tanks on a hotkey, etc.

Play more aggressive, especially when you damage the engine of a vehicle. Go for the kill. Never give up.

Exciting game. Really demonstrates how easy it is to throw it away as Ostheer also.

I was very surprised when I saw people streaming DoW III and it looked, imo, uglier than DoW II. It's visually a mess, and it sounds like gameplay wise its a bit of a mess too. Just from first glance, I would have been very surprised to see the game get popular.

Just go to a stream and try to look at it as if you're unfamiliar to the game. Then go look at CS:GO or League of Legends or even CoH 2. DoW III stands out not only in that it's pretty hideous, but also in how it is pretty incomprehensible what is going on, even compared to other complex games.

johan once accused me of "playing like a girl" and then once I was clearly winning said "ok I'm done u play too boring"

So this is pretty par for the course for him.

Hi Steve! If you want someone to show you the ropes and play some 2v2 feel free to add me on steam/PM me.