It was a nice game, I really enjoyed it. As for me, that was sort of my first game as axis vs. some better players. And I heard T2 was very good so I gave it a try. Well, after all I have only played like 10 or so games under the new patch. So I'm still very new to it .
Just a couple of comments from the benefit of hindsight:
1. Gol going WSC/Infantry Company was a huge mistake. Both of them. He spends a good portion of the game actually stuck in his base.
2. Epiphany (that you Bent?) - you seemed to spend most of your time shuttling back and forth to prop up your left and right flanks. Nothing wrong with that per-se because it seems your opposite did the same. However it does mean that you lose quite a few squads because (I presume) your attention was on a fight on the other side of the map.
Generally the best way to get an enemy to break off an assault is not to shore up your allies defence, but present danger on your part of the line. He then has to disengage his army and move across the map to hit you.
And now two general comments:
There is a noticable difference in the way that combats went when you got BARs. I think that if the axis go tier 2 in force then the allied player needs to upgrade his riflemen in order to stay competetive. Rushing to tanks doesn't help because pumped up grenadiers murder M10s and Shermans now (in the right conditions).
This is a classic case of 'general stalemate until the axis tech up to lev.3 inf and tanks'. The top of the axis tech tree is more powerful than the top of the allied tech tree. Or, to put it bluntly: you just can't handle 4 elite tigers and an ace rampaging round the map with infantry support. They will go where they want to, and are likely to win any stand up fight they enter.
I will have to watch the replay to see the battles more clearly though. I must admit to being pretty perplexed out there. undoubtedly I was the "ahem" 6th best player lol.
anyways I killed a couple tanks and kept a positive kill death ratio so it wasnt all bad for me.
I hadent played this map in a few months so was lost in navigation
This post has been edited by york: Feb 18 2007, 15:23 PM
Review please