Profile of van Voort

Sorry to tell you but good players will fire it in the retreating path not directly at the units if the enemy they are facing is good enough to move in time

A lot of players will retreat when they hear it firing

Because a lot of players will retreat, players aim to hit the retreat

Therefore if you are advancing and you hear firing you should keep moving forward.

Why am I thinking this is the sort of conversation Inverse has wanted to have with at least one boss in his time but can't?

Provoke the frustrated coder at your peril, you may be Pointy Haired but you are not his Boss

STUG-E is not OP, for a unit that was a (mostly undeserved) joke for much of it's existence it's now actually useful.

If there is any issue it is with infantry clumping not the STUG-E itself


As for CAS:

People know my thoughts on it, yes?

http://www.coh2.org/guides/30967/close-air-support-guide


Right now we have been seeing a lot of it, because it's new for a lot of people so they want to try it and more allied players are having to play against it

In a while it will become less popular and Allied players will have adapted as best they can

When that happens, I will be prepared to see if it is OP or not, but right now it is too early to say

Very roughly, based on my own experience:

SOV 4v4 goes down as low as 100,000 plus because that's were I was when I started

Ost might be even lower because of larger player base.

In 1v1 my first ranks were 10,000 +


Generally I think:

There are more 4v4 than 1v1, possibly 10 times as many

There are more Axis players than Allied players

There are more Core factions than WFA


So I think:

20,000 OKH 4v4

15,000 Sov/OKW 4v4

10,000 USF 4v4

5,000 OKH 1v1

3,500 Sov/OKW 1v1

3,000 USF 1v1

Might be around the same

This gap decreases and eliminates the higher up you go


Don't expect any agreement or consensus about that however, that's just my ballpark opinion

Observations, though I am by no means that good:

You should probably move faster in the early game

You built a second REL after your first rifle, then waited til over 350 MP before ordering your next rifle

Ditto after your first rifle capped he was static for a bit before moving on


I don't like to build obstacles first, you had double RE building on the right. I think capping the VP and the Munitions point would have been much more important. Munitions because income, VP because VP and US are usually best early game so you want to get that ticker going down ASAP

The wire you built didn't block off the ford completely and you retreated right away rather than capping


Your rifles then went static in the middle for some reason, you need capping power and field presence anyway. Especially in this situation as your opponent has gone Soviet Industry very quickly so probably won't have much of either

Taking out the MG right went well, but would have been easier with all 3 squads, you were split up rather a lot which meant you took higher casualties then you needed to and had to retreat 2 squads.

You were floating 600MP at this point, Amublance would have been good at this point rather than 2 more rifles.

Picking up the MG42 with RELs was good but should have been sooner


I recognise here that you are doing what I used to do when moving to real opponents rather than AI, which is building early fixed defences. This often works against the AI, however real opponents are much better at adapting, by-passing or destroying them and will exploit the fact you dig in first then cap.

With 5 Rifles + LT you should have been able to consolidate and push them right off the map, instead you are a bit static and spread out with 3 on the right not doing much. Your teammate was capping the middle so you didn't need to.

Ambulance would have let you reinforce the MG on the field

LT + CPT together is not that common, usually you do one or the other + MAJ


Nice flank left, but with all your force that would have been over quick and you would not have lost a squad

Armour Company at 3CP? Seems odd choice as one of the best things about that is Assault Engineers and they come right at the start


The opponents I note stand in Red cover and have dug in heavily on the left without securing the bridge. Moving the MG42 up to cover the bridge would have made it very hard for them to get back across.

I think you've built one rifle unit too many, as you now don't have the MP to reinforce the ones that retreated, and you now have fuel to get armour on but no MP (not sure what your plans are here but with MAJ instead of CPT and one less rifle you could be working on Sherman)

Your howitzer ended up positioned so that it shot the church a lot, which apart from not being the enemy took out your ally's squad in there. Then it did get hit and taken out, would have been better with the MG in front or around it

Would have been better to use the full squad to cap and the guys with 3 drop back to the Amublance to reinforce, ditto after you recrew the howitzer.

Once you get MAJ, moving him up closer and setting a retreat point with the Amubalance is a good idea

You get completely pushed off when they come at the howitzer with 4 Grens

Then have not produced any real armour yet, which means they are hoarding for heavy stuff, I shall be interested to see what happens then

No I'm wrong, they bring out two PIVs and a Puma

You really need to set MAJ retreat point and work on fixing your Sherman (remember the crew can exit to do that you don't need RELs)

Bit late to get Bazookas here, you have a CPT and Vet rifles for infantry AT.

This also means you have to go back to base and get them.

You have 600 MP and 175 fuel, you can build another tank and reinforce everything


They aren't playing well by any extent, but they understand the importance of attacking en masse, not of capping anything or repairing mind you, but they are able to get enough force together to push you off

Jackson should be behind the infantry, you might have got all 3 PIVs then

You could have split up to cap the VP and the point


One of your enemies is floating 2000MP now and has no infantry except Pios. There is also an abandoned Puma and T70 he is not bothering to re-crew

AA halftrack is not a good choice here, more armour not that + BAR

Spending on another tank is a better use of fuel

Your teammate keeps not switching to the AT-GUN on his KV-8 when tanks turn up

Yeah! Finally set MAJ retreat point

Not another AA half track, good you cancelled it

Your infantry are there and healed whilst the mid is being attacked