What is the best way to counter allies naval gear?

[haverespect]

I always struggle with this when playing on line as the ships have such good range, any tips please?

[Cat]

If you're playing on a water major map, then you gotta fight them ship to ship. If you're Soviet, you must dominate the seas quickly as the Allied navy will win in the long run (mass destroyers or cruisers beats mass submarines).

On maps where there is land access, you can just tank rush the base. If they spent money on navy, you should come up ahead in the tank battle (unless you wanna fight them through naval warfare yourself). If someone has a large fleet of cruisers, try to bait them in misfiriing their own buildings and try to take out their GPS. In my experience, it's very common for Allies players to just rage quit after losing their tech center, even when they have 30 cruisers on the map.

[haverespect]

Originally posted by Cat:

If you're playing on a water major map, then you gotta fight them ship to ship. If you're Soviet, you must dominate the seas quickly as the Allied navy will win in the long run (mass destroyers or cruisers beats mass submarines).

On maps where there is land access, you can just tank rush the base. If they spent money on navy, you should come up ahead in the tank battle (unless you wanna fight them through naval warfare yourself). If someone has a large fleet of cruisers, try to bait them in misfiriing their own buildings and try to take out their GPS. In my experience, it's very common for Allies players to just rage quit after losing their tech center, even when they have 30 cruisers on the map.

Thank you for the advice, much appreciated!

[haverespect]

Do you know of any good hot keys worth using during the game? I know H is to go back to base and ctrl to manually fire, can you think of any others that add value?

[Cat]

Originally posted by haverespect:

Do you know of any good hot keys worth using during the game? I know H is to go back to base and ctrl to manually fire, can you think of any others that add value?

You can check the Bindings in the options. There are a lot of useful hotkeys there, I reconfigure the keys to my own suit to make it easier.

[haverespect]

Originally posted by Cat:

Originally posted by haverespect:

Do you know of any good hot keys worth using during the game? I know H is to go back to base and ctrl to manually fire, can you think of any others that add value?

You can check the Bindings in the options. There are a lot of useful hotkeys there, I reconfigure the keys to my own suit to make it easier.

Will do thanks

[ZacktheReaper]

Another Hotkey is you can hold down "q" to keep the destroyers / boats firing at the same target without having to re-click. It works the same way as it does with tanks.

Is there any maps you play in particular with water? because the counter strategy can often depend on the map.

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by haverespect:

Do you know of any good hot keys worth using during the game? I know H is to go back to base and ctrl to manually fire, can you think of any others that add value?

If you hear a message like "Out base is under attack!" or "Unit lost." then hit Tab to go there. I rebound it to space because it's loads more useful.

[haverespect]

Great tips guys I've made a note thank you both

[haverespect]

Originally posted by ZacktheReaper:

Another Hotkey is you can hold down "q" to keep the destroyers / boats firing at the same target without having to re-click. It works the same way as it does with tanks.

Is there any maps you play in particular with water? because the counter strategy can often depend on the map.

N o particular map just occasionally if we play with a sea based map it can be a real struggle

[The_Pastmaster]

Originally posted by haverespect:

Originally posted by ZacktheReaper:

Another Hotkey is you can hold down "q" to keep the destroyers / boats firing at the same target without having to re-click. It works the same way as it does with tanks.

Is there any maps you play in particular with water? because the counter strategy can often depend on the map.

N o particular map just occasionally if we play with a sea based map it can be a real struggle

I just remembered a thing... Don't know if you've noticed but Soviet submarine torpedoes will hit ANYTHING that is in front of them. I learned that the hard way when I killed half my own boats while trying to sink a cruiser. >_<