Profile of Brick Top

The kv2 is not a bad tank, its a huge area lock down machine and needs to be used with a combined arms army supporting it. Thats why im really happy industry will be able to support a mix of maxims, ATGs and conscripts finally.

Theres no other tank in game can do what it does. You just must not use it on the move. Lock down important points/VP and defend it with your army, awesome!

I agree it can be tricky to get a grenade off, which is why you need to flank from multiple directions with the last squad closing to throw it, kinda like rifles would do in COH1.

Or if there is a very critical building of the enemys, you could consider rushing a squad with the flare as your 1st muni purchase, you can get it in the first few mins, this way you can probably destroy the building before it even becomes an issue.

Or if all thats too tricky, just use Royal Arty Doc, dont rely on Sextons, just get some muni caches and spam the 100 muni call in, just use it on all his buildings, bunkers and any howies. It will do a good job making way for your tanks. Then when you do attack, use it on clumps of paks.


Alternate strat, might not be great, but you could use the Forward Observation Point from Tactical Support Regiment, spam muni caches and use it to call in arty and air support, at least you will force the enemy to use their indirect fire on your buildings rather than troops, and you can just keep upgrading new ambient buildings.


Im not sure Rifle Co. is a good idea, because it lacks any solid arty or off map to back you up.

So I dont thing this unit was fine , for 90 and 210 munny you get multipurpose obers

Sorry what I meant was I dont mind the changes to engies. In fact Im very happy with them, because I didnt abuse them much anyway, but did regularly face them when playing Vs UKF.


I think in their intended role of emplacement support, they probably werent too bad... but of course they were getting spammed, which was OP.

ATGs aint already good enough?


Just screen with inf like you should and they will snipe tanks.

Everyone hates on this doctrine, so for a while Ive ignored it, yet it keeps niggling in the back of my head.. and Ive been playing with it recently vs Ost, and I love it.


Ok so maybe the sexton isnt great? Dont build it then.

The recon arty can certainly be useful, especially for spotting for arty.


The main ability of this commander is the co-ordinated barrage, for 100 muni. Now I know an upgraded IS can drop the flare for this (for cheaper), but that requires them being in position, and bloody close too. And you lose healing on that squad. The sniper can also do it, a bit further a away (and at vet 1), but again that requires positioning, keeping sniper alive and at vet 1.


Having the arty drop wherever you want it for 100 muni, is really good. Brits can struggle vs static positions, and the combined arms nature of Brits and Ost, often leads to a big stand off which arty can really smash.


I also like strats that are not very meta, because people dont expect a crap load of arty raining on their head At 100 muni, its quite spammable.


I rarely get the Valentine, if I did, it would only be for the scanning ability, so would depend on a super defensive opponent.

The overwatch arty, is good, but situational, depends if you have a whole side of the map where enemy is pushing. But you do need sight for shells to land.. but its quite expensive, so I dont use it much.




Never automatically go royal arty, I keep my options open, my main other go to vs Ost is Royal Engineers, having a command bren is good, the repairs come in handy in different situations and given the right map, the AVRE can be a complete game changer, especially if the enemy gifts me a PAK so its easy to have plenty of AT.

But as soon as the enemy starts digging in MGs, building pak43s, or Howies, or spamming support weapons, having the arty on hand is godly.