An additional replay relating to the Anti-PE American strat: game 2/2 vs. LegnAnellaF (a top 150 PE player). Unfortunately, i forgot to save my first match vs. him on Semois, but here is the strat in action on Langres. I won both matches, although this 2nd match came a lot closer.
A made a number of pretty big errors in this game---I lost both AB squads to an attack by a Wiblewind and Armored Car while I was distracted with adding reinforcements, and I nearly lost hte game as a result. I'm sure others can find numerous other micro issues.
But I think you can see how effective the Macro-level concepts of this build are vs. a PE player that goes with the classic Armored Cars + MTHT concept, even late game supported by Flak88 + Wiblewind.
As an aside, at the end of the original discussion thread, i floated the idea of skipping BARs and going with AB --> fast TD. After a number of experiments, i've concluded that doesn't work well--the BARs are crucial to establishing strong early-mid game map control that provides the munitions and overall map control crucial to making AB doctrine work, and the tradeoff to faster TD is not worth it. So I'm sticking with Fast - BARs, straight to AB doctrine + AB squad as laid out in my original post.
This post has been edited by remosu37: Jan 29 2018, 17:39 PM
You can find the BO and my discussion of it here: https://www.gamereplays.org/companyofheroes...s&id=327411
A made a number of pretty big errors in this game---I lost both AB squads to an attack by a Wiblewind and Armored Car while I was distracted with adding reinforcements, and I nearly lost hte game as a result. I'm sure others can find numerous other micro issues.
But I think you can see how effective the Macro-level concepts of this build are vs. a PE player that goes with the classic Armored Cars + MTHT concept, even late game supported by Flak88 + Wiblewind.
As an aside, at the end of the original discussion thread, i floated the idea of skipping BARs and going with AB --> fast TD. After a number of experiments, i've concluded that doesn't work well--the BARs are crucial to establishing strong early-mid game map control that provides the munitions and overall map control crucial to making AB doctrine work, and the tradeoff to faster TD is not worth it. So I'm sticking with Fast - BARs, straight to AB doctrine + AB squad as laid out in my original post.