Profile of CookiezNcreem

Relic intended them to be used inside vehicles, popping out when in danger to destroy an AT gun or fausting infantry. This idea being terribly niche and more likely to end up with your tanks being driven away by the enemy then to help you in any way.

The situation you proposed is just players trying to make light of a shitty ability. You are almost always better off just investing in bars, and it would be far less redundant if literally any other unit had the upgrade instead of the vehicle crews.

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Well how do you know what relic intended? The squad uses para thompsons and gets above average received accuracy pretty fast.

So my assumption is to use them as more micro intensive rangers. And for the most part it works, they beat just about anything if you don't just for the motherland style them across red cover.

And they're better than bars at extreme cqc, so there's your reason to upgrade one squad with a thompson.

I mean I'd rather have them for combat than a bar rear echelon. Nothing unsolid at all about a 4 rifle captain Thompson crew composition in the late early game.

Ass Eng best feature is flamer demo and crit repair, for everything else they are over price wannabe Sturmpio.
240mm arty is unreliable as hell, that thing is 50% a waste of muni.
People pick Armor for M10, everything else is extra ice on the cake.

well I agree I guess, even though you dont see sturmpios charging up to just about anybody past the early game and doing anything productive either, unless properly positioned and supported. Thats just a grass is greneer on the other side mentality. they reinforce for the same cost and AE's cost less than sturmpios.

the flamer is always a great reason to buy them because as long as the game has buildings then you can call up your ass engies to help clear it, again especially when you dont send them in alone to do it.

how is 240 unreliable? it does its job, if you want an area full of enemies to not be full of enemies anymore then drop it. its as reliable as it gets in that regard and with armor idk why but i always float munis even barzooking everything with thompsons.

you can also do it during a big m10 push, but dont bring your infantry along cuz i've had some bad moments thinking the barrage was over and then....(poof)

no problem. Feel free to post another replay if you so desire!

Well after watching it,

You had all the right tools(for the most part, see below) for the way the ostheer player was playing, a mortar halftrack pack howie combo with the stuart is the best route. Of course you lost the halftrack and the stuart to just innattentativeness, thats to be expected as you're new.

you had an huge advantage most of the game.

And it wouldve been an 'easy' win for you if you had just..

Bought an AT gun

The US AT gun is extremely good versus bunkers, killing them very quickly. This game you overlooked the AT gun altogether, opting for 2 pack howitzers instead.

Literally all you had to do to kill a bunker is move a squad into position for vision(even if they get pinned) and then fire your AT gun at it a couple times until it dies. Easy. And you still have an anti tank gun.

Alternatively you can attack ground and kill it through the fog of war without sacrificing a squad.


OR you can move a squad up out of the bunkers arc of fire, and spot for the anti tank gun. anyway you catch my drift? Bunkers are ez. And you countered the MGs pretty well for being new. So thats that. Youre on your way.

However,

Someone must have told you the M8 Scott carriage is good

Its actually horrible and a unit you should actually never buy

Matter of fact buying it lost you this game more than anything. You were doing fine, had most of the map, and you had him confined in. At around 8 Command points you buy a M8 carriage, which did absolutely nothing as expected.( Its a REALLY SHIT unit. One of the worst in the game by far in its current state.)

So...what do you do then you ask? You had picked Infantry company, which has the M7 Priest in it, that unlocks at 9 command points and is infinitely better than the M8 motor carriage.

So, as you expect, in that situation, buy the priest artillery ALWAYS. The M8 is basically a pack howitzer on wheels that costs an obscene amount of fuel for what it is.. So just buy the normal pack howitzer, that costs no fuel before 9 cp if you want arty, and once you hit 9 cp, and find yourself needing bigger guns buy yourself some real artillery in the Priest.

You couldve had a sherman alongside the priest as well, which wouldve meant gg no re.

In general

You let those mortar halftracks live happy lives.

Be a predator. Be a crocodile in the water.
If you see an opponent went for double, sorry, TRIPLE mortar halftracks, just hunt them down with your stuart.. I MEAN HUNT THEM DOWN like a SAVAGE LION...use the stun shot so they dont get away..., ez kills.

This is how mortar halftracks feel around a stuart

If you hit a mine(BUY SWEEPERS and suicde the squad if you have to to find the mines) buy another stuart and try hunting again. Your opponennt dropped 120 fuel into...halftracks. So even if you lose 2 Stuarts and the sweeper, thats a great trade and will go a long way towards winnign the game.

He has no indirect anymore and his tech is delayed to high hell, so you win right there.
Your micro couldve been better
But im not gonna roast you on how you lost your mortar halftrack. better micro just comes with time and experience.

regarding micro in general, If after a while you're still not 'getting it', watch one of the streams on the livestream list to the right and look at how people micro and handle their units, and apply it to your own play.

In addition, if you like seeing the whole picture, download replays from USF players from the replay section and watch them as well.

Even further... you can also check the LiveGames feature in game and watch the highest ranking replay at the time and watch how they handle units.

Combine all of that... and you should be fine.

Strategists on this site continue to amaze me with their hostility towards players. The badge is beyond worthless, it's a shame.

let me explain something to you, helping new and lower level players with content and guides(which just so happen to be the most continually and most viewed things on this site other than the infamous balance shitpostfests, which I guess is where you're finding 'hostility' from strategists) is far from 'worthless.'

Just because one member said something you dont like, doesn't mean an entire section of people and the work they do is 'worthless.' If a post is truly offending to you, report it and it will be handled.

tobis could've worded his post better to not be as insulting and condescending towards an experienced player thats just frustrated with a lame mechanic/tactic, and ill give you that. but that other drivel about a 'worthless badge' is pretty unnecessary, and just straight up false.

so do me a favor, and btfo.