[QUOTE="blinn79"]2. When the skirmish started on Lyon, I used the engineers that already are there to make baracks. Then immediatly clicked the Jeeps three times. As soon as the first came out, I sent it directly to the bridge. Followed by the 2nd and 3rd Jeep. I used Jeeps, because the CPU always beats my troops there. Well guess what, somehow, amazingly, the CPU had already built the equivilant of my heavy weapons, and had snipers and other troops on my side of the map. How do troops, especially from multiple different buildings, get built, and pumped out and on foot move a longer distance then my first 3 jeeps with nothing else being built?
Immediately after you start the game, have the engineers that are already there go get a resource point. Produce another engineer who build a barracks. Then produce two more engineers that focus on getting resource points.You end up quickly getting resource points which you could use for infantry and defensive weapons. You could use the engineers to build machine gun nests to help stop the AI for getting your resource points.
3. When I tried blowing the bridges in Lyon, and sent 3 different units of Engineers to each bridge. By the time they got there, the CPU has already taken over it's entire side of the map, made a heavy weapons equivelant, a motor pool equivilant and pumped out units from each building and got them to the bridge in the time it took me to make 3 Engineer units and send them to the bridge. How is that possible? How did it have the resources already to build those things in the first 90 to 100 seconds of the game? Why is it that my troops can't make it to the bridges before his motorcycle (Jeep equivilant), but when you look back at what I just wrote on reason #2, the CPU can?
4. When I did take over almost my entire side of the map, I produced a large number of tanks, and different various other vehicles. My vehicles were being trashed by souly infantry from the CPU. Now generally when standard troops go up against even a motorcycle with a single .50 cal., they get killed fairly quick, assuming a standard 3 man unit. As I was starting to beat the CPU, I actually made two half tracks with the quad .50 cal., upgrade and went around my side of the map to clean up the last few CPU troops. Well a standard (not heavy machine gun, or gernaide launchers) infantry of 6 men, took out my two half tracks. Now I am not a math major in college, but with a total of eight .50 caliber machine guns firing at six soldiers on foot, armed only with standard rifles, with no cover, they should have been shredded! Instead they took out two armor vehicles. It was literally just like the HQ health meter situation. I watched the half tracks shoot them for about 60 seconds while only maybe two died and my half tracks health dropping VERY quickly. Maybe they were related to "Clark Kent" or something... who knows.
In company of heroes you cant just win by building all tanks. You need to balance it with infantry and defensive weapons like ATs that destory tanks. When you are sending a couple of tanks out have a squad of infantry with them to handle any of the enemies infantry. Have two squads of infantry with the ATs to defend it from the AIs infantry. Also focus on getting to the AI's base, once you are able to do that, you could destory important buildings.
5. Lastly, of course there is the fact that I have seen a unit of troops from the CPU shoot up my HQ with standard rifles, but I sat there with 7 Jeeps shooting the HQ for a good ten minutes straight, while the health moved NONE at all. The Jeeps blew up the barracks with no effort, so they obviously can blow up buildings. Maybe I am just crazy to think a single .50cal on a Jeep is going to take down the CPU's HQ when a quad cannon half track can't even take down its foot soldiers. What was I thinking?
When you have infantry and tanks on the field, dont send them out there to die. You could have them retreat and they will come to base. Your infantry squad can level up making them stronger Make sure your infantry have BARs and sticky bombs
Anyways, I didn't know you could record actually through the game the skirmishes, but I know that now. I will go back and re-create all these scnenarios again and record it throught he game so their is no chance of someone saying it is too blury or don't know all the facts. I have played so many of these skirmishes now, to make sure I was not going insane seeing this stuff, that I know how to recreate it no problem. I have never seen a game so blantly "cheat".
The AI isnt cheating. You arent using the right strategy for Company of Heroes.
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