Sample of troops sent in the first strategy.
The defender in this case lost all of his 50Junkers, 50 Ars and some 50 fighers. (Whenever a player sends these troops, the fighers are but sitting ducks and even Ars are not effective against the Ostwinds.)
The ideal defence would to have Stugs and Tank Destroyers but I do not think there is any single player who has these as his mainstay unless someone wants to do some service in the TW. The defender in this case also had 1000Nbwf and 1000other infantry which took the least amount of damage.
Against such an attack, I think the true effective troops might have been a similar number of Panthers (Panthers can take out ostwinds effectively but again noone really makes Panthers in such large nos and Junkers as ARs are also destroyed by the Ostwinds quickly.)
Final suggestion against such an attack: Get all your fighers out of the base asap...Use only panthers and infantry. (In this scenario, the number of Tigers sent are low which could have been used by the attacker to his advantage. A scenario where the no of tigers are also equal to the Ostwinds is challenging and would require about 1.5x times in no of bombers or .75 times the no in tank destroying armour.)
I have been trying to collate the best troop combination over the past few weeks and will need comments.
The following are the two most common combinations that I have seen:
1. Ostwinds and Tigers
2. Combinations of Ars, Junkers, Tas and 109s.
3. I have also noticed some players using only large nos of infantry sometimes.
Strategy 1:
Sample of troops sent in the first strategy.
The defender in this case lost all of his Junkers, Ars and fighers. (Whenever a player sends these troops, the fighers are but sitting ducks and even ARs are not effective against the Ostwinds.)
The ideal defence would to have Stugs and Tank Destroyers but I do not think there is any single player who has these as his mainstay unless someone wants to do some service in the TW. The defender in this case also had 1000Nbwf and 1000other infantry which took the least amount of damage.
Against such an attack, I think the true effective troops might have been a similar number of Panthers (Panthers can take out ostwinds effectively but again noone really makes Panthers in such large nos and Junkers as ARs are also destroyed by the Ostwinds quickly.)
Final suggestion against such an attack: Get all your fighers out of the base asap…Use only panthers and infantry. (In this scenario, the number of Tigers sent are low which could have been used by the attacker to his advantage. A scenario where the no of tigers are also equal to the Ostwinds is challenging and would require about 1.5x times in no of bombers or .75 times the no in tank destroying armour.)
Strategy 2:
While having an only air troops strategy, a useful thing can be to have a lot of cheap armour troops in your base in case of defence. Air troops are very good for quick attack but are often weak against defence. The below screenshot shows the benefit of having cheap armour where the planes took minimal damage while defending:
Strategy 3: I personally think that infantry provide the best defence strategy and help in a situation wherein you are likely to become a farm soon. Very few players have the ability to completely destroy large amounts of infantry. Check the following screen shot:
