Profile of van Voort

With Commander Survivor out of the way, we move onto

FANTASY FACTION

The objective:

To build a faction out of the available units from all factions and commanders

This will not have any off map abilities, only units


Tech structure will be similar to OKH in that it has to be linear; units that will come in as call ins come in as call ins and at the same time as they otherwise would

Units will have the same abilities and inherent upgrades as core, but HQ upgrades will be limited


We will vote on these type by type until we are done.


So, round 1, Builder Units:

I just recently after 170 hours of custom and co-op games started doing automatched games.

I've found myself constantly losing to the same Ostheer play (making me wish I saved replays) - a slow, extremely defensive play into Pz IV(s) into Tiger. And usually I've had most of the capture points and 2-1 or even 3-0 VP's till the Panzers roll out.

The best I managed to do against this so far was having a pair of T-34 85s with one SU-85. I could beat the enemy to fall back (the Tiger took quite a beating with Mark Vehicle), but finishing them off seems extremely risky. I'll admit the opponents were good at preserving their vehicles, especially with the smoke. I did try chasing a hurt Tiger with the T-34s; what I found was the PaK and PG's supporting from the rear. Once the Pz IV's reach Vet 2 the Zis guns seem to lose their bite, and the 85's get less reliable too.

Well, if you have a German defensive turtle play and you cannot end the game before they get mega armour out let's look at the ways to break it up.


I assume here that you are talking about a relatively compact German defensive position of MGs, bunkers and paks. Supported by a halftrack or bunker to reinforce and a med bunker these are hard to take out



You've been successful with Guard Motor and that gives you good tools to deal with their armour when they get it out (button, mark target + 34/85)

So let's work with that


You can ignore them and cap the rest of the map, however that is not ending the game quickly enough for you.

Also, by leaving them alone you would not be bleeding them MP, fuel or attention; nor are you getting close to the 9CP you need for the 34/85s


So you need to attack them, preferably force them to come and find you.


Method 1:

You have access to the 120mm mortar. This works with all mortars, but the 120 is especially good.

By buying 1 or 2 and attacking their position you will kill some models, this will cause a certain degree of MP bleed as they are obliged to reinforce; however once you get to Vet1 you can use precision strike to takeout entire weapons teams in one go and that will start to hurt


Be ready for him to break his position and come find you, this is what you want because it will break the turtle

Method 2:

Tech to T4 but get a Katusha not an SU-85.

One will cause bleed as above but not necessarily decrew or smash anything, two will hurt,3 will be deadly - if you can get 3.

Expect him to hunt down your katusyha, so mine the likely routes he will come. If that works you know have a crippled enemy tank a long way from safety


The Katushyas will also help in the armour battle by stripping away and damaging Pgrens and Paks and by driving off or killing engineers if he tries to repair to close



If you want to try other docs, anything with incendiary barrage will hurt against static defenders and that comes early enough to be useful

van Voort has been beared. Welcome to the pack.

Rawr!

Thank you

First they looked at my player card, and they told me I only played one faction, so my opinion didn't matter


Then I played all factions, but they told me I only played team games and the balance is around 1v1, so my opinion didn't matter


Then I played 1v1, but they told me I wasn't good enough because the game is balanced around top players so my opinion didn't matter


Then they looked at the top 200 players across all factions and all games modes, and they said this wasn't accurate because it doesn't reflect the game as a whole


But it didn't matter because I'd long since stopped listening to these idiots who will always find a reason to reject things they dislike

Just stepped away from 1v1 / 2v2 and mess around in 4v4, all I could say, it is boring, and it is dreadfully broken.

In such team game, players would have massive resource without struggling, fighting for strategic point would be effortless.

I can assure you that strategic points do matter in team games

Early battles, and most the later ones, centre around the fuel points


On steppes for example, if you have the island + mid fuel you are doing far, far better than a team that has the two top stars and the munitions.