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Balance Discussion / Pioneer FL and more

« on: May 01, 2010, 10:20:36 PM »

Ok, I don't know if something has been modified in this mod vs vanilla  but I do find that Pioneers FL to be completely over powering.  They can destroy just about anything in like 3 seconds.  I have them in my face destroying MG emplacement and such not even bothering to out flank it.  They piratically stand in front if their objective and enjoy being peppered with MG.  It's a bit the same thing with Grenadier with anti tank weapon, they just can destroy what they want in like 2 hits.

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Strategy and Tactics / Re: 1vs1 in VP small map

« on: April 21, 2010, 02:23:31 PM »

Well, It seems that I am not too competent while using the Russian Troops  nor the Americans for that matter. I was finally able to win the Prague map using the the Brits in normal difficulty.  It's probably because their tech up trees are more suited to my style of play.  It's rather "easy" to counter the horde of German Tanks using the 17' pounder gun.  When you support them with trenches and mortar emplacements, they can become quite a pita, at least for computers.  I am not convinced that it would work as well vs human players.

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Strategy and Tactics / Re: 1vs1 in VP small map

« on: April 20, 2010, 01:42:41 PM »

 Thanks for that very educative piece of video.  I tried it and it worked up to a degree but it seems more suited for very small map. Anyways, I'll put that in my bag of tricks.  I probably don't have the skills yet to take on an expert or hard CPU on a VP style of game.  I am realizing that it takes quite a bit more skills in micro management that an annihilation game.

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Strategy and Tactics / Re: 1vs1 in VP small map

« on: April 19, 2010, 08:54:02 PM »

I have tied the trenches tactic I can hold them back a while then all of the sudden tanks appear in great number.  Obviously, CPU gets extra resources that it doesn't need to gather on the map otherwise it would be impossible to get enough to built as fast as it does.  In one game that I played (king of the hill) I was playing the Germans with 3 other CPU against 4 expert CPU : 2 Russians, 1 USA and 1 Britz.  I was winning the game and happened to be almost in the enemy base.  I could see the Britz CPU spamming its command truck at an interval of like 15 seconds and Priest artillery at about the same rate if not faster so that my explain a few things
Post Merge: April 19, 2010, 01:03:43 PMHow can I read the sequence you've posted ?

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Strategy and Tactics / 1vs1 in VP small map

« on: April 19, 2010, 05:25:07 AM »

I need some help here folks,

Lately I've been trying to play VP 1vs1 playing the Russians.  resources are normal and I play against an expert computer on a small map (Prague).  I am not an expert player but I know pretty much the basics and I've often played annihilation game in the past vs expert computers and lost my good share of games but also won quite a few in the end, I am persistent.

Thing here is, I get completely destroyed in this kind of map. My infantry gets owned badly by the volks, I am usually a defencive player but this strategy doesn't seem to suit the Russian troops well. I tried to overpower the Germans at the start of the game but one or two squads of volks will own like 2 or 3 times that number of conscripts especially tf the got the MG upgrade. If am lucky and can counter the German infantry up to a certain degree than I am toasted when the get thank within 10 minutes in the games.  Any hints here would be appreciated...