The PE Armored car problem

[MasterOfWar]

How do i counter the Panzer Elite Armored Car fast rushing as american? I start building riflemens and then suddenly he got 1-2 armored car rushing in within 5 minutes of play long before i can get any ATs on the field. Its actually a joke in gamedesign.

I try to drop some mines but sometimes that bastard is moving a ketten with him. I think ACs come way too early in the game. How do you play vs a PE that prob rushes ACs? Its not that easy denying him of fuel in many maps.

[Miiiiiiiiiiiiike]

If they rush AC they probably have less infantry, or other tech to make their infantry better.

So you should be able to make more riflemen, capture heaps of the map. Equip your riflemen with BAR's and Stickies and those will deal with armoured cars. The PE armoured cars are pretty thinly armoured, and can be destroyed easily by a couple of riflemen squads with BAR's and a sticky or two.

You play on high resources? Because I find it hard to believe someone having 2 armoured cars in 5 mins. Unless you mean the scout cars, with the MG42. In which case they do little damage and are easy to destroy with small arms fire.

But I don't play much CoH anymore, or against people so I might not know much.

[Ready. Steady. Fighty.]

Three ways to deal really.
1) Get stickies and triage (Bulletproof strat) and then wait for Tank Depot.
2) 5 rifles and BARs followed by 2 squads of rangers, mine everything then Tank Depot (SIS).
3) Two engies, 3 rifles, riflestall followed by MP, M8, AT, M8, AT (Say no to Klaus).

[Noog]

multiple rifles with bars and stickies or m8.

[Noog]

honestly one of the hardest things to counter against pe.

[Fly to the sky]

1) dont get bar vs ac 2) get sticky and mine 3) use rifle stall at green cover till m8

[thelizardofdoom]

The replies in this thread are shockingly dense.

Your only method is to go immediately to airbourne and get recoiless rifles on air INF. Then go for air dropped AT gun.

The rifle BAR combo only only works if the enemy is a complete idiot. Mines are simply luck and rather ineffective. And again if he lets your rifles get close enough to sticky then hes an idiot. THE ONLY OPTION against someone who knows what they are doing is to stall with rifles and use airbourne tree.

[Ready. Steady. Fighty.]

the same airborne that kill your manpower income? Need 125 munis for RR, which will phase through the AC? And if you spam em, Good luck dealing with P4 IST.

[Kurnauskis uwu]

PE is OP but you obviously suck

[DesertDust]

House MD is right, Airborne is the best choice. You can also stall in buildings until M8/Quad 0.50 and run away, if squad's health gets low. Triage Center helps a lot, and you can even bulid a few pieces of sandbags to protect yourself, but you have to remember about it. If you are in heavy cover, AC won't do much to your infantry.

[AveatorReborn]

So you stall in heavy cover with your rifles and get t3 without stonewalling you into airborne doc. Even though AB has its perks, Inf and armor are a lot better agianst PE. Mines work agianst PE but you might actually have to bait him over it without a ketten. You can also build tank traps, PE will not have any counter to those other than schrecks and panthers.

[Hajami]

Some randoms + 2MG Units 1 covering the other one. and dont suicide your units in open field while enemie is driving backwards. Its just a trap for you.