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Also to blow my own trumpet a bit 😉
I’ve just won my first ranked game in COH :D. It was on Siemos and, boasting aside, I’d like my tictacs picked apart a bit since I’m still a complete noob. This was the first time I’d played the map aside from 2 ass kickings vs the computer, but even still the guy I was playing choose a tictac I wasn’t expecting, completely fortifying the centre around the church. He put his first HMG in the church, keeping me away long enough to fortify the roads all around it with tank traps and wire. I’d started with a barracks rather than WSC, and couldn’t think of an early assault strategy here, so decided to leave it alone and concentrate on the top and bottom victory points. I think I did pretty well early doors as I got an APC quite quickly, and rushed it down to take the church (which was when I discovered he’d spammed tank traps all over the show), and some poor micro led me to loose the APC needlessly to his first AT gun.
Micro seemed to be a bit of a problem after that as well, with me constantly forgetting what group I’d assigned to which unit, but overall I did a decent job defending the other VP’s. There was a lull in the middle around about the 20 minute mark, when I wasn’t really too sure what to do except for holding on to the points I already had, and although this was broken by a small armour rush (which I only just dealt with – took me far to long to see it happening), I held out for a comfortable ticket victory.
The replay lasts 40 minutes, and I only put it up for anyone who really likes to analyse shit (and shit it probably is). Any suggestions are most welcome 🙂
@=XDC=MADMAX wrote:
nice one Matt, Ive started playing Axis, but im level 4 on both alliesaxis at the moment, on 2vs 2.
just started playing Axis and on level 4, so you found a way to port your BF21453678675564 hax then? 😉
Firstly Matt let me say: 😆 😆
“please let me win”
“I dont want to lose again”
“not AGAIN!” etc etc.
The poor guy was destined to lose. He didnt make any great effort to take any other point. And you missed a great opportunity to mash that middle into pulp with your caliope 😛
Your inf units taking his stuff over close to his base was a good move. Slowed him right down productionwise. Well done for using the armoured car to place mines on the ford . Those mines are a lot more powerfull than the usual ones the engineers put down. Also worth while putting them around the control points also. Nice micro management with the M10 and riflemen when they came to attack your base. You left some points uncapped for a heck of a long time although Ill let you off as they were by your base. And one thing I would have done is use a sniper and a squad of engineers or something to lure their sniper out. Once he takes the shot. Your sniper should then take care of him 😉
That guy really let you have that game by putting all his eggs in one basket and forgetting that having only one of the 3 points isnt going to let him win the game 😆hehe yea his attitude definately gave me a boost in confidence ahead of the game, I love defeatists 🙂 The point about untaken points, yea definately what a noob, half the way through I looked at the tictacable map and WTF nearest munition point uncapped, jesus christ a schoolboy error. I think in future I’ll try your suggestion for taking out that sniper, at the time I remember it took out several of my units while I was distracted elsewhere and anytime I switched view back to the middle I just couldn’t see where the shot had come from 🙁 Didn’t want to waste more resources on a new jeep (my micro let down the first jeep, maybe also a lucky AT shot, but mostly micro). Overall though, as you say, he defeated himself, but good to get advice on how my own approach to the game could be improved.
I’m curious how others might have approached that middle fort type situation though. My attitude was well fuck him I only need two points so he can sit there. The caliope shout is also a good point, I forgot axis units can camo and so didn’t want to waste a barrage when I may need it again for southern defence. That was stupid though, I should’ve thought of how I’d have felt after the first annhilation (what a shot :)) – DON’T ATTACK THERE!
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