Profile of Imagelessbean

Ok I took a look at your game, here is what I saw.

You were extremely passive in the early game, for long periods multiple units stood around. You had grens, MGs, snipers and mortars at various points not doing anything. This meant the Brit players were able to fight you on even ground and defeat you piecemeal. For many portions of the game you were holding <2/3's of the map.

This is not your fault, but after the Brits already had AT guns and a boffors he went with a late luchs. This was a complete waste of time. He should have gotten a stuka right away.

You teched to T3 and then went to T4, which you used for a panther. This is fairly wasteful since the cost to tech and build a panther was equivalent to 3 or 4 stugs or 3 PIV's.

You wasted the early game pio capping power to stand at range and dual with an infantry section in a building. There was no way you could win this battle or even damage his infantry, which would get med kits as soon as he had 35 munitions and just heal up. The MP loss to you is needless and you slow down your ability to cap. With this unit fighting and your MG standing still you literally did not cap a point until the grens came out and walked across the map. Think about how much fuel and ammo you denied yourself.

The late game arty cover was painful, but you and your ally fought under it multiple times. As soon as you see it popped pull everything out, get everybody to safety. Sit just outside the circle and wait. Once it clears out you can make a push again.

Multiple times you guys cleared out most of their fighting strength and got zero caps out of it. You must be able to capitalize on his losses. The right side of the map was given over to the Brits when all you needed was one flamethrower pio and a gren to push him off.

Your MG was poor. I don't mean that as an insult only a strict evaluation. Often you would be fighting next to it and it would be facing the wrong way. On other occassions it was left well behind the lines and was not used in nearby battles. The worse case I saw was when you had a mortar set up in front of the MG to begin barrages. This makes no sense, MGs cover mortars and mortars should always be the back of the line. There is never a reason a mortar should be in front of any unit. You are paying for its range and damage, if you don't want the range just get a sniper so you can pick off infantry.

The 222 was badly handled, which was a real shame since you had spotting scopes. Try to keep it alive, it doesn't need to do much since the scopes will have it paying for itself in no time. Plus it would have shot down all those planes. It was baited into a very obvious trap when trying to hit infantry at long range, which it is very ineffective at.

Sniper play was generally good. The fact that he managed to lose 3 snipers is amazing. I don't understand why he even build the 2nd one.

The arty was a good choice, but you wasted so much time trying to kill emplacements with conventional units that you traded extremely inefficiently. If you are going to use arty don't worry as much about getting rid of emplacements. They will go very soon, 8 cps is nothing.

+1

I do think the AOE still needs nerfed tho it should do less damage farther from center of the blast. Right now like anything in the rather large circle is wiped to shit. Mostly i find it a problem when im playing USF because of the fwd retreat and they need it on some maps. ambulance never makes it out in time and a lot of time major and maybe a rifle too because the models tend to trip on top of eachother when mass retreating. I have no idea why they ninja buffed it to begin with just because CAS got a huge nerf during that time but was well deserved.

They really like dropping it on your fwd retreat as USF when your engaged in a tank battle at the same time which really makes it difficult when your trying to constantly rearrage your back field and fighting with your micro intensive paper tanks at the time.

If you use forward retreat from the Major that is a risk/reward decision, and if you mass retreat more-so. However, currently you are not even safe in your home base which means that you might as well use the major since it makes no difference, they can get sight easily and just drop it at home when you retreat.

Realistically with the AoE it has many units struggle to get out of the circle. Also when you play against good players they often drop it on likely retreat paths or movement directions so you will still get wiped even more so for moving.

That reminds me, is that decap intended? It's extremely unusual.

It is intended, it says so in the text and it has been that way since launch. I think it adds a very unusual piece which is nice, since that is not replicated in other abilities.

The Stuka dive bomb is, and has been, over performing for quite some time. In the next patch it will no longer be allowed in base sectors, but its ability to wipe infantry units and destroy arty in one shot needs to be addressed. If it occurred rarely (huge cool downs), or did much less but cost less, these would seem to be ways of making it interesting. The fact that it decaps points should be an interesting point about this ability, but it is so widely used as a cheesy wipe mechanic that you often don't see its diversity.

The sexton was bad, isn't as bad, but is still useless. I don't see a need for a weak expensive, high pop cap arty piece when I have a commander with the land mattress as an alternative option and far better other abilities.

The Valentine also needs to be adjusted to make it actually usable with the Sexton combo as it was intended.