One of the closest games I have ever had. I was going to give up when I lost me medic post. But thought i would stick it out.
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One of the closest games I have ever had. I was going to give up when I lost me medic post. But thought i would stick it out.
That... sickens me. You just exploited strafe and the ridiculously overpowered AT that is paras. Your opponent dominated you, and apart from poor micro of his panthers, deserved to win. It's a real shame that he didn't.
To improve on your play:
I know you were going for strafe, but its really worth sending one of your initial engies to the fuel on the RHS of the map, via all the fuel on the way. PE vs US is really all about fuel (and strafe, apparently), and if you give PE enough fuel, they dominate - you're making it much harder for yourself if you give up that high fuel, believe me. Contest it, and he won't have PIVs as quickly, which really screw you up..
yes strafe got blasted to shreds. But as soon as he knew i had strafe, he should have gone more anti inf, and less inf blob
Was more the closeness i wanted to show. was pretty funny as it was counting down to 9 he said gg, then realised that he hadn't won yet.
I did have the good side of the map, but i am not all that familiar with it, do you normally go 2nd eng squad? I usually prefer to get out the second rifle so that i can dominate (cover neglected) his 2 grens.
I always go 2 engies.
Well, that's true, but hard. His options were luftwaffe - and whole squads of falls die to strafe, which is too expensive to sustain.
PIVs - which, as we saw, died to AB.
ACs, which would have involved back teching, and die to airborne.
So... what?
He had me early game hard, He failed to push his advantage. he lost only because he hung back and let me regroup.
...you still wouldn't have won without complete abuse of strafe. Even if you were at the bottom of the map, where munitions is more hard to come by, he would have won.
He couldn't push his advantage too far, anyway. You had paras with RRs, which outrange PIVs. To assault your base would have been suicidal. He probably should have tried for more map control, but that was really the only problem. For him to beat your rifle blob was, in itself, an impressive feat.
7 min in, you charge 3 rifles across the road (red cover) at 4-5 grens + an HT... That's is really not way way to go.
You lost the early game but then your opponent was sitting pretty in his corner waiting for the Panthers...
This loss has nothing to do with strafe; you used strafe exactly as it was intended: against blobs. If PE wanted so badly to blob, he could have at least put def vet on some MP44s. Those things are good against US inf and AB, and by some micro instead of blobbing he could have wiped you off the map.
Panthers? Why??? Tank destroyer doc??? All bad choices.
2 PIVs supported by spread out MP44 grens and maybe 2 ACs standing by to run down the retreating troops woul have sealed the deal.
Of course, when one is idling in a blob in the middle of the map, with a PIV, and rubbing one's hands at the thought that he is going to drive a panther group in the US base, this is what happens.
All true, but without strafe, with such bad US tactics, he would never have got out of that base again. I lost count of the times he used strafe, but given that numerous munitions points were OPd, on sturzdorf top, and that near the end he had 0 muni.. well.. Especially when you consider that US player WAS charging 3 units of rifles in to 5 + Pgs..
I can't say that strafe exclusively won him this game. Really... PE made so many bad choices, and bad strategy, topped all by no real micro skill, aside from knowing to focus his PG fire on a single target. This, coupled with those wild hoorays from the US, won the early game for the PE, but then it just fizzed.
i think the strafe are OPd, the PE see your tactic and try to go for tanks but too much slowly, at the end AB are OPd against tanks also...2p_beaux lowlands.2011-05-12.22-15-50.rec
i posted a game than u can see that.. strafe and ultra long AT attack dont give me way to advance...
Last edited by valenciabest; 16th May 11 at 2:36 AM. Reason: see that battle :)
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