Rushing

[Rizz]

Hey guys,
I was playing CoH yesterday as Wehrmacht and I was on the Angoville Map...Everything was going smoothly for the first five or ten minutes, I have my Volksgrenadiers taking points, the enemy only has a few rifle squads and a bunch of engineer teams, I was locking down some of my important points. All of the sudden, I get attacked by an M8 Armored Car, which went straight to my base, destroying my starting MG emplacements and most of my base. The game went on, with him destroying my stormtroopers I had called in, and also taking down any replacing units I build. He ends up beating me to death with just three M8s. It was embarassing...and I think that even if I had gotten my Krieg Barracks up to build AT, I don't think I could have taken him.. Do you guys have any suggestions for avoiding this again? And what do you guys do to prevent rushers from ruining your fun? What are your rushing tactics?

 

[Blue Stealth]

sounds like you overextended.

If thats the case, mines are your best friend...spam them on roads/choke points as needed.

Additionally, an M8 AC takes quite a while to destroy both mg nests (or even 1 for that matter). During that time, dont panic and spam units that cant do crap against the enemy (your stormtroopers). Instead, be patient and build either a pak 38 or a puma (depending on your build tree).

If you do not have either of these buildings up by the time they roll an M8 into your base, you are doing something wrong. And without seeing a demo I wouldnt know where the problem was.

Lastly, if you had soo many units capping points, you need to do two things.

1) use your units as scouts. On most maps you can get a glimpse of something as quick as an AC before it gets to your base, giving you the upper hand.

2) keep capping points even if you are being attacked behind you. Only a suggestion if the enemy sends 1-2 units behind yours. Use common sense in that situation. Sometimes retreating squads back to defend a base does more damage than good. You need resources, and even if you lose 1 building, losing recourse advantage is much much tougher to recover from.

Hope that helps.

-Blue

 

[Rizz]

Thanks Blue.