Profile of somenbjorn

Rawr rawr, I will be attending being drunk as always! Happy Birthday Bears.

Personally, I'd find the big red "delete" button and delete the Soviets out of the game and then start of scratch, giving them actually good basic infantry (conscripts in 1943-44 is an insult), getting rid of the cheese (get that M3 out of my sight!), giving them effective AT, actual good lategame tanks (though ones which would come out later that German ones) and the ability to have non-doctrinal tube artillery (the only faction which would be able to)

+1

The soviet faction is weird as hell and basically made from the narrative of the campaign and just recycled into multiplayer. Hence half of it is from 1941-42 and the rest from 1944-45.

The joke is that all all points in their lives, both CoH games have always had larger numbers of people playing the campaigns and stomping comps than playing competitive multiplayer. Always.

You mean like every strategy game except SC?

IMO, the Soviet claims of enemy force strength & destruction in operations are usually worthless and not even close to the actual numbers. The Wehr reporting system in operations usually closer to the mark, but still with discrepancies.

Agreed with most, but this is the wierd part.


Well what claims? The ones made by Krasnaya Zvesda are often very poor, just like all countries propaganda during the war is very inaccurate. (Which is why I cringe whenever someone on the interwebs quotes wartime publications.)

I think all claims of destruction of enemies are way way off. I remember reading about a regiment of IL2s that reported "An entire german armoured division destroyed by massive bombardment". Whilst the German commander reported "Strafed by enemy aircraft, (a few number cant remember like 3-4) needed light repairs, division keept advancing."

The Germans often destroyed well over 100% of Russian tanks knocked out, like 267 reported armour kills with against a formation with a maximum strength of 190. The Germans pull back with some losses and the Russians keep advancing.

We often see that in all wartime reporting, enemies are annihilated, but none tells the enemy that so they just keep moving forward.


I find the only close to reliable numbers to find is looking at own losses. People are often more correct with regards to "I lost x number of men in the following categories" than they are anticipating the losses for the enemy.

But ofc there are problems there aswell. Talking about armour there are many different ways of counting for the different sides.
Like a tank thats knocked and rebuilt at the factory would in Germany be listed as: Sent for repairs.

In the USSR it would be listed as a entire new tank, and be included in the factories numbers of tanks produced.
(Looking at monthly produced tanks for like ChTZ and compare it to how long after a certain battle it was is an interesting project.)

No side is better and to be frank, Wehr did have a very, hrm, interesting way of marking up their own losses.

I don't think people who haven't had to deal with the general public in a professional setting (service jobs, call-centers, retail etc.) can really appreciate how much it strains your mind. It is hard work and about 100% of people are assholes, and many of them let that show when they are consumer.