Company of Heroes

The main idea behind this strategy is to constantly attack your opponent, seize map control and drain Manpower as much as possible in order to give yourself the XP needed for an even more effective Mid-game. This, however, is a very micro-intensive strategy that requires a very careful and wise Sniper play. With a few exceptions i will talk about later on, depending on the opponent's units and the map, the build goes as it follows:

- 4 pioneers out of the HQ straight up, so you will have 5 in total. All of them leave the base to cap a decent, if not big portion of the map. Focus mostly on munition over fuel points super early in the game.
- Build the Wehrmacht quarters with the 4th and last pioneer coming out of your HQ.
- Wait for the 340 Manpower (it takes a few seconds after the building is done.) and queue the sniper.

- During the sniper is being built, you will meet your opponent's units in your capping process. Keep in mind a pioneer will nearly always be capable to beat an early Lieutenant in a 1v1 engagement, mid-close range. It is always worth hunting them down early and drain their health as much as possible. The first main engagement you will want to be fighting, however, is versus the Recon Section. This squad has the sniping ability, and it is most likely going to become the dog that chases the rat for so long as the Sniper lives. What you will want to do to be able to do a more than decent damage against this squad, is blob 3 of your pioneers, and put them in any cover there is available near you, light or heavy. You will also need close range. Put your guys on cover and in close range, and you will be able to deal at least 50% damage before you are forced to fully retreat, and basically that is all that matters. Retreating is perfectly fine with this strategy, what matters is deal as much damage as possible before retreating.

- At this point, you will be able to see what your opponent has been doing. What units he has already built, and most importantly where the HQ truck has parked. Is it an additional tommy section with a Bren gun upgrade? Is it an LT and an additional section? So long as you are only dealing with infantry, there is absolutely no problem at all. There is, however, one case where the build will have to change for your army to be safe, and that is the Bren carrier. If you see a Bren carrier during the Sniper is being queued and, is not almost complete, cancel the sniper and build 2 Motorcycles. Then after those are done, queue your sniper again. 2 bikes are relatively superior to the opponent's Bren carrier. what you want to do is attack move them and shoot the Bren carrier, use cover as much as possible even with the bikes, repair and try to at least to keep the thing at bay.

- 1 or 2 pios have certainly retreated after a few minutes, being caught off-guard against bigger numbers. Build the Kampkraft Center with them, and purchase vet 1 support. Depending on your Munitions bank, you should be able to afford one or two flamethrowers as well. When vet 1 is done, purchase Vet 2 immediately. Every time your bank reaches 50 Munitions, you should be purchasing a new flamethrower.

- Which is the job of your Sniper? Be annoying. Snipe one guy, back off, repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat. In my opinion, this process is done very easily by using a Control Group for your sniper (CTRL + *number*), and by using attack move, cloak/uncloak, halt, hold-fire and retreat hotkeys as well. No matter what the situation is, you need to keep in mind two simple things. Move after firing, and shoot as often as the sniper is capable of. When you see the Recon Section coming near your sniper, you need to simply walk away from it uncloacked. When he stops moving or chasing your sniper, attack move and shoot again. You need to make sure he will be taking fire from your flamethrowers during he is trying to snipe him, that obviously will damage him even more. If you are forced to retreat a sniper for saving him from his Counter Snipe, so be it, but with more experience you will gain a sense of how far you really need to be for it to never happen.

After most of the capping is done, it is time to attack! Blob all the pioneers, with or without flamethrowers as best as you can, and send them to the spot the HQ truck has been parked at. Simply put them on cover, and burn stuff up. If there is nothing in his truck, then focus the truck with your flamers. 2 flamethrowers will be able to burn it down in only a few seconds. He will be forced to retreat to defend his base, even if he is not there. When he is back to his base, flamethrowers will devastate him. Make sure to always retreat 1 man squads with flamer, especially with a Recon section close; a wise Brit player would always try to sneak-kill in this way. This sort of firepower, of course, is always backed by your Sniper. Shooting those men can only be painful for his Manpower. Always make sure you apply as much Manpower damage as possible before retreating. Reinforce, and then repeat exactly the same attack again, and again.

- After the Vet 2 support, you should be teching to T2 ASAP, and make 2 paks.
- Blitzkrieg is the Doctrine you will be using for this game, and reaching to the 4 CP StuH is the main goal.
- Purchase Vet 1 for tanks after the 2 paks are done. This will make your StuH's a bit more durable.

- At this point, it really is more optional. Since you are basically relying on your Paks for AT against the upcoming (most likely) Stuart, you should as well be using mines around a Pak position or a choke point. Mining your t2 building's entrance is never a bad idea either. You should be sending your flamer blob over and over again to his base, untill you have those 4 CP's needed to get a StuH. And this is where you will truly have winning potential.

The main weakness of a StuH is some sort of AT form, not necessarily PIAT, but mostly an AT emplacement, or a Sherman Firefly, less likely. Once you have cleared the way out of the StuH's weaknesses, the game is pretty much over. AT emplacements are stupidly easily cleared by flamethrowers, so it really shouldn't be any problem at all clearing them out. Sherman firefly is relatively weak against the AT of your own, which is the Paks, and calling in a Stormtrooper squad with 2 chrecks, or a Gren squad likewise can make it a bit easier to deal with fireflies, or even Staghounds and Cromwells. If AT emplacements and Fireflies are out of the way, the Piats alone cannot really do enough damage to actually kill a StuH. The Piat rounds are easy to dodge, by simply backing off with the vehicle, about the same way you would dodge a grenade with a rifle squad. Besides, Piats will not stand on your way for long with the flamethrower and sniper support.
Calling a second StuH will sure devastate the British infantry, and they will not be able to stand for long before they are completely annihilated.

This is a strategy that only gives you the tools you need to drain as much Manpower as possible, however it does not give you suppressive capabilities. This can bring you to slight disadvantages, such as inability of holding important strategic points that connect the rest of your territory. I believe there is no such problem in maps like Sturzdorf and Wrecked train, however cutoffs like the one in North Angoville, or north Langres can give massive advantages on the British player, if we do not react properly and deny them. Hence, this strategy will change slightly on Angoville and Langres.

What basically changes, is that you will slightly delay your teching in order to build a bunker right in front of your strat point. So, when starting in Angoville or Langres (no matter which side), the build will be this:

- 4 pioneers out of the HQ straight up, so you will have 5 in total. All of them leave the base to cap a decent, if not big portion of the map. Focus mostly on munition over fuel points super early in the game.
- Hold your position with the 4th and last pioneer coming out of your HQ.
- Right after capping the main cutoff point, use the 2 Pioneers nearest to it and build a bunker facing towards it.
- Build the Wehrmacht quarters with the 4th and last pioneer coming out of your HQ.
- Wait for the 340 Manpower (it takes a few seconds after the building is done.) and queue the sniper.

- From South Langres the cutoff you will be putting the bunker on is on the left.
- From North Angoville, it will be obviously on the left.
- From South Angoville, it will be on the right.

Once the bunker is done, you simply pay the first 50 Munitions for an MG upgrade, instead of a quick flamethrower. The munitions income is pretty solid anyways, so i don't believe it will make much of a difference in your future firepower.

I will be attaching replays of me playing this strategy very soon.

Thanks for the time you spent here reading this, and please ask me questions about it

GraveMouth really your like an Artis who took the infamous pio spamm and, you just changed the paintings only really, you didnt come up with something new, the thing is every top Wehrmacht nowadays doesnt give a shit about British, there are 100000000000000 thing we can do we kick thos tommies butt, the only struggle I find in a matchup vs British, is not how to crush him but, the THING IS which strategy which BO, should I use to kick his butt

So my point is the Wehrmacht family doesnt need any more strategies just to complicate and, make our lives harder in a game vs British, okay I am in a match vs a Brit, which strategy should I use to beat him, hmmm should I just T2 quickly and Gren spamm, what should I do what Should I do????

A matchup vs British is all about how creative the Wehrmacht player is in additiona, the amount of skills he has when it comes to adapt the situation.

I agree with 5 pios, Grave, but I don't really agree with going T1 at all against brits since BiB counters everything you can throw at him. Volks go down incredibly fast, so do mg when you flank it, bikes and even sniper when it is revealed. Still, sadly, best bet vs brits is going 5 pios (cap!), t2, gren spam

i prefer an unupgraded bren. usually the bren upgrade is a waste of ammo.

On maps like Angoville, Langres, Wrecked Train, you are done for.

If you see a Bren carrier during the Sniper is being queued and, is not almost complete, cancel the sniper and build 2 Motorcycles. Then after those are done, queue your sniper again. 2 bikes are relatively superior to the opponent's Bren carrier. what you want to do is attack move them and shoot the Bren carrier, use cover as much as possible even with the bikes, repair and try to at least to keep the thing at bay.