Combat situations

[Pac-Fish]

You took a single engineer squad.........had it charge an AC............and it lost 1/2 its health w/o the engineer squad losing a guy. Yeah I dont think that would ever happen to me.

[Cranialwizard]

No. Never charge. With any unit. I don't care if engineer's SMGs do well like you may have said. Don't charge.

[Dann88]

No no, no charge, I flanked then fire the AC at close range. How the hell they didn't get killed with a charge. The point PE players choose to kill riflemen first so flank them with engineers lol

[Pac-Fish]

Somehow I don't seem to believe my Engineers will ever do as good against an AC as your's did.

But back to the question: How to counter fast AC

[Cranialwizard]

BARs, Brens, PIATs, Zookas', PRTDs in cover, ATGs and Stickies if you have them. Mines make nice traps.

Just stick to cover and don't move out of it until you need to retreat.

I don't even know how you rushed a flamethrower into a AC's range without getting chewed apart. That's not an effective counter-tactic and I wouldn't ever try it again unless you want to lose 50 munitions.

TL;DR Replay or it didn't happen.

[Dann88]

Is it worth to invest stickies when Wher go for a HT? Or there is a better way to encounter it without using AT gun nor stickies?

[Pac-Fish]

I think if you have BARs and you focus fire a HT, it will do considerable damage. So if you have like a mine followed by like 2-3 rifles focus firing it it might work. But I dont think you should buy stickies for the sole purpose of countering HTs (which does necessarily work anywho since it can kite you)

Also a US HT with an AA gun will shred it to pieces.

[stealthattack1]

i agree with fish, dont get stickies just to counter HT's, but i would get them if i see a HT hit the field, just because these things are so usefull, as they almost always damage somthing or another. so yea, just focus fire. thats what i always do at least. never really though that i had to have a hard counter to halftracks as they arent that gamechanging, at least untill they get walking stukas.

[Otto Halfhand]

The problem of having too many ACs is even you control ACs in different groups, they will eventually fuck up each other's path-finding causing a damn panic + random damage engine = a pile of german's junks.

I will have to try stormovies against ACs . Interesting tactic....... When you are speaking of pathfinding SNAFUs are you talking about traffic jams or something else. If something else I wish to learn more. A PM wouldn't disrupt this thread.

[Pac-Fish]

I think he means a traffic jam. Even with just two if you try to tell them to both run away fast they will usually bump into each other and dumb stuff happens

[Pac-Fish]

Hey guys, if your opponent is spamming (well maybe not hard core spamming) airborne with RR and they've got like vet 2-3 how do you stop them? Falls don't seem to work, even with FG42. And IHT and AC get blown apart, especially with AT gun support.

[Tankbuster]

Mortars

[Dann88]

MP-44 counter-spam spam?

[stealthattack1]

as pe, i would get Luftwaffe doc and counter with AA guns and wibelwinds.

[Otto Halfhand]

as pe, i would get Luftwaffe doc and counter with AA guns and wibelwinds.

A pair of Wirbelwinds or Ostwinds in sector or adjacent sector to airdrops nip the problem in the air vs SPAM.