Profile of Brick Top

More complicated than you think.

Firstly having a good feel for where and when the enemy is. Are they flanking you with a blob? etc. This comes down to experience and good game sense. But also scouting is important, having units giving you vision to give you advanced warning of being out manouvered (some units have abilities for map hacks like OKW Kubel).

Over extending is also when you are most likely to be wiped, obviously due to longer retreat higher chance of being flanked.

When you are getting lots of units and your micro is probably getting overwhelmed, get in the habbit of putting some units in strong defensive positions while you micro some intense stuff, like a tank push, that can help avoid units just blundering into danger.

Secondly to that point, use attack move a lot. Simply so when units encounter enemy, they stop, preventing them getting too close into a range they would get wiped faster when you are not watching.

Blob. blobbing can help you focus your attention on more units at once = less likely to lose them. You just have to be ready for counters e.g. rocket arty.

Any squad that has access to larger squad size upgrade will obviously help its survivability.

Dont just watch how many models you have, but the squads health. a 5 man squad can get wiped quick on retreat if all the models are low health.

I like a PG with camo, acting like storms near a point, wait until single enemy unit has almost finished decapping (their attention will be elsewhere), then bundled nade out of camo. More instantly devastating and easier to use than storms imo.

Its also not entirely uncommon to see good players occasionally do MG42 spam to shut down half the map early on.

Bit of a late reply but, generally against assault troops, I think its good to spam mainlines and blob up, so you can do good damage to them from afar, make sure to not get cut off on retreat by them, try prevent that happening to your team mate also and retreat if they get ontop of you with too much health in tact. If they are charging right upto you, you can even throw a molotov into their path, which may force them to go around and waste time/DPS.

And then yes probably guards are going to help you boost your DPS, while providing a soft counter to the inevitable 222.

MGs are dangerous due to risk of being flanked and slower to retreat and Ass grens have nades that hard counter them.

If you went T1, a scout car is always useful to kite them with, you may get the chance to chase and wipe (with a flamer), also if they do have an MG42, they have less snares, so M3 might have more freedom.

Absolutley, COH2 2v2 is alive and well.

COH2 just seems livlier, faster paced, yet longer and closer fought matches.

COH3 feels like it will never achive that feeling.

I'm actually pretty surprised that nobody else seems to have noticed this as well, I thought there'd be more of an uproar or something that they've forgotten.

Ha! Well with coh3 floundering and coh2's popularity if anything surging, they are probably too embarrased to reinforce / highlight this fact.