Profile of Imagelessbean

Yeah a couple of them.

Face to face the AEC might win but the Luchs is much more manouvreable and doesn't deal it's damage in steps. Luchs can get away, that's for sure, and if the AEC misses ( which it does often) it is in trouble.

Rather than think oh goody me, free xp ahead, I might have my finger hovering closer to the smoke button in future... AEC looks superior on paper so might be me sucking badly...

You are correct on paper AEC is better. In practice it can turn out in favor of Luchs or AEC. The AEC moving accuracy makes it hard to beat on Luchs because of its inability to move while shooting at it if it wants to do anything. Meanwhile, the Luchs will always hit and penetrates reliably, although for low damage. However, in a faction with lots of AT this makes the Luchs very dangerous to the AEC.

Try using the AEC as you would an AT gun against the Luchs. Let it attempt to kite infantry and then use it behind to force it off. Against a Luchs I would still recommend a real AT gun. The AEC can actually do its job now of protecting the AT gun from light vehicles now.

If you are good try using the sniper, hit vet 1 and then try to crit the Luchs. At this point the AEC should hold the advantage decisively and defeat it. Again many factors in play here. OKW still feels better than Brits to me, but this helps partially redress balance.

Target weak point stuns, though, so if you can pull it off you usually get the second hit, assuming I recall correctly.

If you hit a teller or regal, regardless, and you pop out, which takes 3 secs, assuming AT gun has to rotate to shoot, you will need to tell the AT gun to fire because it will lose tracking once the crew hits the ground. Then he will crit repair, you will hit it once, then he will jump in and drive off, and you may get a chance to kill it.

Also almost certain TWP cannot be used on abandoned vehicles, but I could be wrong. Either way I think it gives too much freedom to make a mistake here. Mines are nasty for a reason and they just don't feel as intimidating to the USF like they do to every other faction.

Also I hate the animation for crews leaving and getting in tanks: teleport here, then teleport there.

Again this is not some game breaking bug, I just don't like how it currently operates.

These look good, and I think will look great on smaller vehicles. Keep up the good work.

I am confused by this thread. Is it that rocket artillery is particularly potent, or is it that static artillery is so underwhelming that by contrast it appears too good?

In any case, I dislike the wipe potential inherent in the Stuka's drop pattern, and the Calliope is too powerful as well as the werfer.

Possibly change the Stuka to drop two creeping lines (3 rockets in each line) in parallel, and reduce the total area so that Brit emplacements can be hit harder, but weapon teams can escape for easily. Or institute a random spread pattern encourage OKW players to bring the Stuka in close to fire, as it is the most survivable rocket arty after the Calliope.

- Yup, something about jump light tanks and go straight to mediums... Like i write "...BEFORE TANKS..."
- Or did you mean that Smoke it and FlameHT? sure i can smoke it, then pro-brits just attack ground trought the smoke... (I have to admid that this works well if (S)he is unaware whats happening aka "braindead" and doesnt brace&standfast when missed the attack ground and starts to take damage.) I've destroyed many bofors with this way but none of them did not know how to attack ground...

BUT like i said its not the bofor,s bofors itself is ok... IT's the stand fast doctrine in urban enviroment that makes too good... If you cannot manage to kill it before its build find some other route or Glitch with 88mm trought buildings...

Well if you don't want counters don't worry about it then.

Since he invested heavily in a light stationary vehicle counter, giving him that side of the map will free you up to push elsewhere. Meanwhile his army is now at a disadvantage because you can field more troops in the area, and when you get medium tanks he won't be able to do anything to them with the boffers.

Smoke into anything you want, AT guns, pio's with flames, shreks, etc. The point was to take the Boffers out of contention. He can manually target, but it is far more difficult, and units can be moved to avoid. Meanwhile, once you get close he will have to brace it. If you didn't bring enough to kill the boffers why would you attack it? The smoke just let's you close the gap. Flame HT works remarkably well since it can drive around shooting, and the boffers has to brace or it can get killed right away. A single AT gun firing two shells forces the brace as well unless he can run over and push you off immediately. Once braced its all you.

The point of standfast is to deny you the ability to kill the emplacement. That is all he gets with it. Popping it will drain his munitions. He is giving up the ability to move on the map to retain control of an area. This is the Brit design, they give up attacking early to become an entrenched faction that requires heavy hitting stuff to bust open. The repair ability doesn't do much once you hit him with some flame.

This is one of those times I get to say: Smoke and flank.

Instead of crying about how the sky is falling and dismissing ideas that you don't like, try them and then come back. Feel free to bring replays as well.