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Jump back to quoted post1 Mar 2016, 23:11 PMelchino7

It's the "best" to ghost. Blocks light vehicles.

Jump back to quoted post29 Feb 2016, 21:36 PMAerohank

There is more to it than that Rappy. You are looking at emplacements purely from the sim-city perspective. The game is, however, played by a minimum of 2 players with different factions.

When I am facing brit emplacements I can deal with it with both axis factions without needing a specific doctrine by following the standard anti-emplacement playbook.
- Enemy invested in emplacements (less squads) and can not have early mobile AT; so use extra squads backed by a light vehicle to take the map.
- Skip medium armor, go directly for sturdy tanks that are hard to lose (panther).
- Add in (rocket) arty to deal with AT guns covering emplacements.

With this playstyle, time is often on my side as emplacements lose their value the longer the game goes on and there will not be an UKF super heavy tank on the field.

When I am facing OKW simcity as USF, I am facing an entirely different struggle.
- I do not get a huge map-presence advantage as OKW sim-city dubbles as their way of teching; panzerschreks also provide decent mobile AT (unlike PIATS, which will not hit a luchs that is moving)
- I have no heavy tanks that I can tech too, I have to go with medium armor which is easier to lose.
- I have no decent nondoctrinal (rocket) arty to support my tanks vs AT guns.
- Time is not on my side; big daddy King Tiger will come in.

Playing USF vs OKW sim city is at least as frustrating as any axis vs UKF sim city. Looking at only the survivability of the structures is ignoring 90% of the factors that actually decide what goes on in a game.

Edit: Also, the poll makes absolutely no distinction between OKW and UKF sim-city. Claiming that the overwhelming majority of players thinks OKW sim-city is fine but hake UKF sim-city based on the poll is being dishonest.