How to counter German howitzers as UKF?

[Stealthy Jeffrey]

I don't want to point my finger on anything saying that it is overpowered or anything like that. I am simply new in PvP and would be thankful for an advice. There are probably ways to solve the mentioned problem, I just don't know them. :)

Last Game the enemy wehrmacht got 1 howitzer near its base and it destroyed my 2 mortar pits very fast. The mortar pit is my only source of indirect fire as British player so without them I could not counter the German MGs anymore. The Howitzer also did reasonable damage to my mobile units, especially to my infantry sections (and no, I was not keeping them in one place for the whole time :D). Getting close to clear the howitzer was too difficult for me because MGs blocked my infantry, AT guns blocked my tanks and I had no indirect fire anymore to clear MGs and AT Guns without getting close.

[COMP DBD 1V1]

howitzer spam is the hard counter to sim city
there is no counter for howitzer spam besides base locking them, or getting line of sight and nuking the arty pieces with the heaviest commander arty youve got

your just going to need a sniper to deal with those mgs and paks, brit infantry dont have mobile smoke so you cant flank them without their entire blob being sent at you

[CatMeowMeow]

There is many
1. Advance emplacement - Counter battery (Remember to turn it on both battery)
2. Commando - Air Superiority
3. Special Weapon - Concentrated fire
4. Artillery - Sextons

[Richartonio]

Originally posted by Stealthy Jeffrey:

I don't want to point my finger on anything saying that is overpowered or anything like that. I am simply new in PvP and would be thankful for an advice. There are probably ways to solve the mentioned problem, I just don't know them. :)

Just wanted to drop by and commend you for the cool attitude. Way to go! This is how you improve in the game.

[MasterSteve117]

Diffrent question. How encounter okw/wehrmacht artillery when they are bunkering in with USF? (IF you didnt get a doctrine with calliope or priest)

[COMP DBD 1V1]

usf has smokes so just smoke the mgs, the major has a button the nukes a spot for 60 muni
IR pathfinders have a laser guided nuke for 140 muni plus recon commander comes with a 110 muni butterfly bomb nuke

several other commanders have normal arty barrages

thats pretty much it unless you expect to be sending the mortar or a hotwizer or a tank howitzer to poke their arty all game

[Grimpavidus]

i always thought you can repair it fast enough with simcity that it can withstand howitzers

[Stealthy Jeffrey]

Originally posted by CatMeowMeow:

There is many
1. Advance emplacement - Counter battery (Remember to turn it on both battery)
2. Commando - Air Superiority
3. Special Weapon - Concentrated fire
4. Artillery - Sextons

Counter battery sadly didn't work on the Minsk map because the map is too big, so counter battery has not enough range. For the other abilities I still have to get close enough to get vision on the howitzer, for which I have to push through AT guns and MGs without any source of indirect fire. I really don't know how to do this. :x

Originally posted by The Shy Guy:

i always thought you can repair it fast enough with simcity that it can withstand howitzers

I wasn't possible for me but maybe I did something wrong.

[Farlon]

Originally posted by Stealthy Jeffrey:

Originally posted by CatMeowMeow:

There is many
1. Advance emplacement - Counter battery (Remember to turn it on both battery)
2. Commando - Air Superiority
3. Special Weapon - Concentrated fire
4. Artillery - Sextons

Counter battery sadly didn't work on the Minsk map because the map is too big, so counter battery has not enough range. For the other abilities I still have to get close enough to get vision on the howitzer, for which I have to push through AT guns and MGs without any source of indirect fire. I really don't know how to do this. :x

Originally posted by The Shy Guy:

i always thought you can repair it fast enough with simcity that it can withstand howitzers

I wasn't possible for me but maybe I did something wrong.

with special weapons you don't have to move close at all, if you want to summon use crocodile you can use it's flares to your advantage and summon it on the howitzer then use the artillery there.

[Stealthy Jeffrey]

Special Weapons is recommended by a lot of people but I really dislike this regiment. :x
It is very important for me to have abilities that result in faster vehicle repairs. Special Weapons does not have any ability for the mentioned purpose.

Maybe I just have to push to the howitzer with mortars, tanks and infantry sections BEFORE it destroys my mortars? That's honestly the only possible "solution" that finally comes into my mind...

Furthermore I could try to encricle MGs with IS to counter them. I made great experiences with this tactic during my last game. :)

Last but not least the counter battery will still destroy any howitzer on smaller 1v1 maps. c:
Too sad that I can't veto all bigger maps. (don't worry, just a joke :D)