Company of Heroes: Eastern Front

Eastern Front Mod (Read-Only) => Strategy and Tactics => Topic started by: irik on May 10, 2011, 11:16:29 PM

Title: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: irik on May 10, 2011, 11:16:29 PM: When I play against Normal American Cpus, they spam mg teams and mortar teams. What should I build to counter that? I get discouraged to use the motorcycle because they somehow have a lot of riflemen too. What should I do? I can defeat them, but I am always pushed back.

Edit: Should I use Panzer IV against American enemies?
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: IJoe on May 10, 2011, 11:24:54 PM: Quote from: irik on May 10, 2011, 11:16:29 PM
When I play against Normal American Cpus, they spam mg teams and mortar teams. What should I build to counter that? I get discouraged to use the motorcycle because they somehow have a lot of riflemen too. What should I do? I can defeat them, but I am always pushed back.

Edit: Should I use Panzer IV against American enemies?
Snipers, mostly them. Add some mgs, and it's over for mortar+mg ami spammer - cooked and ready.
Overall, you have to have N mgs and N+1 snipers for proper infantry counter. If he starts building vehicles, 1, max 2 paks should be enough.

Oh! And don't forget to vet your support. It really shows. You should get the first HQ upgrade as well, after about the second mg.
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: RedGuard on May 11, 2011, 12:00:02 AM: flank them! wsc starts die hard so if you can execute one succesful flank and force them to retreat, they will struggle to regain any kind of ground/resources. their field presence is weak capitalize on this and out cap them. by mid game it should become apparent they have lost

goodluck!
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: pariah on May 11, 2011, 12:32:52 AM: Weapons Support Center starts actually tend to be better on maps with lots of buildings than Barracks starts. A Heavy Machine Gun team in a building will hold back infantry and light vehicles much better than a Rifle squad.
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: Paladin88 on May 11, 2011, 03:59:40 AM: Quote from: irik on May 10, 2011, 11:16:29 PM
Edit: Should I use Panzer IV against American enemies?

Whatever rocks the boat...
The Panzer IV is alright since the US doesn't really have anything outstandingly powerful... watch for AT though. :)

Quote from: pariah on May 11, 2011, 12:32:52 AM
Weapons Support Center starts actually tend to be better on maps with lots of buildings than Barracks starts. A Heavy Machine Gun team in a building will hold back infantry and light vehicles much better than a Rifle squad.

+1 from what I can gather, you trade mobility for firepower and a stronger defensive line. I guess you could work with a friend to make it work.

I.e. one builds barracks, one builds WSC
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: Paciat on May 11, 2011, 07:19:20 AM: Quote from: irik on May 10, 2011, 11:16:29 PM
When I play against Normal American Cpus, they spam mg teams and mortar teams. What should I build to counter that?
CPU skirmishes are so you can learn to counter any unit, any noob player becouse COH was designed to be a multiplayer game.
Try playing on easy but not using MGs.
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I get discouraged to use the motorcycle because they somehow have a lot of riflemen too.
In EF normal AI gets a resorce buff. Only easy AI earnes as much as you would.
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: IJoe on May 12, 2011, 05:01:53 PM: Bear in mind, that wehr mortars have a greater range than their ami counterparts.
Title: Re: How to stop Weapons Support Center spam as Wehrmacht
Post by: pariah on May 12, 2011, 05:05:49 PM: Yeah. I haven't yet figured out if either Mortar gains range with vet, but i haven't done much experimentation with it.