Axis Strategies

[Fallen]

stukas also work nice
pumas are great,just watch for those ptr teams,but you can easily harass them on larger maps...

[irik]

I have thought the Red Army is OP. Turns out I am wrong. For Wehrmacht choose the Defensive Doctrine. Always try to spam MG teams. It will surpress those enemies. Always try to get those Paks. They may sound weak because they have a 50 mm gun but they are good. I won a match when I produced 27 infantry but the enemy produced 120. I am not kidding. I might upload it on youtube when i know how to upload a video.
Try getting a halftrack with an infantry squad (even engineers are good enough). With that squad get it in there and get another squad and make some assaults.

[Panzer4life]

well, i figure this out when facing the Soviets as the Axis. When you can, grab a Puma or two, and along with a Volks squad, take ammo points. If the Russians can tech up even their conscripts, then it might as well be game over for you. Also, since Nebelwerfer leave a fire bath after their attack, you can pin squads and force them to sit in the fire for longer than they would like. I suppose a KT might be worthwhile, but against the ISU-152, you must maintian control over the situation, the ISU-152 can kill the KT easy.

[Black Fox]

Step one: purchase a unit that suppresses well such as an MG.
Step two: back that MG up with anything that has treads.
Step three: Suppress any of your Russian opponent's infantry.
Step four: take your tank and SQUISH THEM.

I find that this works fairly well for any axis faction. It's a bit situational, but it pays off with Marders with 15+ infantry kills.

[DaChief99]

Step four: take your tank and SQUISH THEM.

REALLY like this one had 2 mgs pin a blob of soviet infy.  Stug went in and got 32 infy kills.

[Black Fox]

I'm glad someone made good use of it.
It's so much easier to grind them into the road when they aren't hopping around like insane grasshoppers.

Edit: Now that I think about it, this could make way for some interesting moves with the G-Wagon...

[DaChief99]

Good long range at with them.  mgs to prevent infy from owning it.  that could work well if you had 2.  1 by mg, 1 off to the side a bit to hit side armor of advancing tanks.

[ThGermanElite]

PE is phenominal vs Russians, Ive always loved PE, but Russians seem to be thier specialty xD

[irik]

I am not sure if someone already came up with this strategy, but this is what I do:
1x Pioneer
Building Wehrmacht Quarters
2x Motorcycle
1x Volksgrenadier (Give it an MP40 if possible)
1x MG Team
1x Sniper (Use it like a Kettenkrad. This will sure kill off those Tank Hunters and Conscripts they may want to spam.)
Escalate to Skirmish Phase
Building Krieg Barracks
1x Pak 38
1x Mortar Team
When you have spare resources, use them for Volksgrenadiers and MG Teams.
Escalate to Assault Phase
Escalate to Battle Phase
Building Panzer Command
2x Panzer IV or 2x Panther (Only have Panthers for Samokhodnaya Ustanovka 85s, or Samokhodnaya Ustaknovka 100s. If you can, spam them for Iosif Stalin 2s and ISU 152s. Panthers and Tigers can outrun the Beast Killer.)

[Paciat]

Whats the point of giving build order? You build what you need and have resources for, thats the whole trick.

Stug is the first tank on the field that can withstand PTRDs. But you need to have a PAK, shrecks or other AT support. You should build a puma/ostwind too or rely on youre MGs.



Did anyone tried to build only support units and light vechicles and get them as much vet as possible?
All you need is to save fuel and MP that would be spend on getting to Tier IV and buildnig 1 panther.
Pioneers, MGs and Nebels are all support, bikes, PAKs, Pumas are vechicles.
You only need 100MP/20Fuel to get buy vet 1.
Both PAKs and Pumas are harder to hit if veted (and if theyre moving) T-34/76 isnt a threat to them.

Vet 3 Pios recive +25% damage (not +200% like other units and non veted Pios) so you can repair when fighting.

If an IS-2 shows up just call-in a Tiger or build an 88 to support youre paks.

[ThGermanElite]

Whats the point of giving build order? You build what you need and have resources for, thats the whole trick.

Stug is the first tank on the field that can withstand PTRDs. But you need to have a PAK, shrecks or other AT support. You should build a puma/ostwind too or rely on youre MGs.



Did anyone tried to build only support units and light vechicles and get them as much vet as possible?
All you need is to save fuel and MP that would be spend on getting to Tier IV and buildnig 1 panther.
Pioneers, MGs and Nebels are all support, bikes, PAKs, Pumas are vechicles.
You only need 100MP/20Fuel to get buy vet 1.
Both PAKs and Pumas are harder to hit if veted (and if theyre moving) T-34/76 isnt a threat to them.

Vet 3 Pios recive +25% damage (not +200% like other units and non veted Pios) so you can repair when fighting.

If an IS-2 shows up just call-in a Tiger or build an 88 to support youre paks.

So true, no game is the same so you are always having to adapt to the situation, if you use the same build order, the allied player will tend to catch on and adapt to a good counter to it.

[comrade2012]

The Russians are terrible on bridge maps. If you can bottleneck them on a bridge, you can slaughter them. I mean seriously, its just depressing... especially when ur playing an Expert cpu. they just keep coming and coming, and you can just kill so many... Its great!!!!!

make a roadblock, make two or 3 mg nests, a sniper, two or 3 mortars, two Paks, and eventually a stuka. If you do that, your set. You get points quickly, they waste resources, you get tanks first, you win.

[comrade2012]

to reinforce my point, the other day my friends and i were playing as the germans and inflected around 1,350 infantry casualties on the other term

[Seeme]

Nice! A tenth of a divison wiped away!

[ThGermanElite]

Yep, me and a friend were playing EF, we inflicted 12,826 infantry casualties, 2,833 Tanks/Vehicles, and 51 biuldings. We both went to bed to see if our defenses would hold out through the night, and they did (obviously). I saved the replay BUT I wouldnt post it on GR.org because it was a 12 hour game.