Profile of Puppetmaster

Glad you found my player card. Most people know I only play axis, I only provided by player card on my profile... also check through my previous post, i don't show extremely Fanboy. I don't show absured one sided balance issues. Pay my bills then tell me to play allies and I just might. I come home and do what I enjoy. I don't get frustrated, I say things how I see them. And it looks like there is plenty of others who think the same...

While you may not show "extreme fanboy" in your posts, your posts are generally consisting of x allied unit is ok / overperforming or x axis unit needs buffing or axis is forced into x.

Refusing to play every faction limits your skill at the game by a huge amount. Not only does it give you a skewed and biased view of units and factions, but it also blinds you to what is a balance issue and what is simply a player / lack of knowledge issue.

It doesn't feel like you consider OKW Schwerer to be an issue, despite the fact that it has been for some time (though it is killable of course depending on where it has been placed).

Brit "Sim City" without counter barrage is easily countered, you just need to know the proper ways of dealing with it. If a player is building more than 2 emplacements then they have a huge amount of resources invested into them and will likely have a fairly weak army. You need to use tactics and teamwork to take down emplacements in some cases (such as forcing the player to brace, waiting for it to wear off (or bothering to count and then pre fire) and then unleash whatever you have to kill it). Emplacements still take a decent amount of damage from fire when braced also.

If we are talking about when the Emplacement commander is used along side counter barrage from the base arty then this is a different situation and requires different tactics to defeat. Using indirect fire (excluding LeFH out of range) is not the way to counter this and you are in fact playing into the hands of the Brit / Allies if you try to defeat it this way. Once again the Brit will have fairly poor army composition if he is building lots of emplacements and will also be draining his munitions to upgrade them.

I would suggest you watch the Jove vs DevM ESL game with Jove as Brits who built emplacements. His "Sim City" was fairly week there and thats a player who won the past 3 ESL tournaments and sits at #1 in all 5 factions in AM.

Also you should consider that if you played all factions, you would learn how to counter Brit sim city by seeing how other players beat you when building many emplacements (unless you will tell me you can get #1 in 2v2 / 2v2 AT playing Brits?)

If you truly want help on how to defeat it, you should upload replays of your game losses so people can see where you went wrong and how you can improve.

Don't have time to write a longer reply right now, but I've been testing building a UC as a first unit regardless of commander choice. It helps a lot against a fast Kubel and combined with an IS will win you pretty much any first engagement (assuming its equal). If you come across an MG42 you can usually just sit infront of it and snipe its gunner, though you need to be careful incase of penetrations vs it. After the first few engagements it becomes less and less useful however if the enemy is building camping, wasp upgrade is really handy.

After that I would tend to try to secure at least 1 VP and the fuel with a vickers and mortar (map dependent) and branch out from there. I don't usually get 5 man or weapon upgrades until a lot later, instead focusing on getting a quick Cromwell or two out. I will build probably 1 AT gun to hold off any light vehicle rushes. If you are floating MP then build a fuel cache or two.

Dem Haxs!

Rawr! Gratz Choccy & the others.

Undecrewable (is that even a word?) is probably the best buff it can receive, buffing its survivability a huge amount. Needs fixing vs different levels of terrain but many units suffer from that problem.

If it does receive a buff I think it should be removed as a base defence and replaced with the standard bunker though.