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A video to show how broken this unit is.

First test - both MGs in red cover.

Second Test - MG42 in yellow cover, Maxim in no cover.

Third Test - MG42 in yellow cover, Maxim set-up the wrong way then turned to face the MG42 while also being mortared.

Guess who wins every time?



http://youtu.be/-hxsL5dlC8w

My sniper micro is probably not good enough for this to work in 1v1, but I bet you-know-who can make it work. In 1v1 you may need the scout cars for mobility, but in 2v2 and up I find just using snipers conserves fuel and lets you get counters out faster, indeed without spending any fuel on upgrades you should have an SU-85 before a PzIV or stug appears.

Build Order

1) Rifle Command
2) Sniper Sniper
3) Engineer
4) Lay mines on retreat path of snipers, or other favored scout car routes
5) Sniper or Shock troops if in team game and you need more capping power
6) OP Fuel
7) Build T4, get SU-76 to kill Scout or Flamenwurfer.
8) Build SU-85 for the PzIV or stug
9) More shocks, OP fuel if it's actually back and forth on the fuels until you can bring out a KV-8.
10) Another SU-85 or more shocks as needed.
11) IS-2 (if game lasts that long).

Win! It's good to have at least two squads of shocks for stealing paks, I usually end up sniping one or two, and they come in very handy. This omits the scout car because they cost fuel, and I find your snipers survival chances are much higher without being in one. It is easier to keep snipers from getting naded than to prevent that faust you didn't see coming and losing a sniper on retreat. Just lay tons of mines, behind your snipers, in front of them, chokepoints. All your ammo before you get the incendiary barrage should basically go into mines. The only weakpoint is MGs in buildings - snipers are still bad against these, but if necessary you can pull off a flank with shocks and engineers.

Use the incendiary barrage ability liberally on entrenched positions/gren blobs. This strat capitalizes on the Soviet's little need for ammo, so you should have plenty floating for midgame when you get the barrage ability. Maybe get one flamer engineer if you really want it. Remember to always use flare to see what's ahead. Flare is really really helpful.

They really should just bring back the Rifle/Volks mechanic...As it was perfect.

Make Grens 260, cheaper reinforce.

Pgrens to 330, slightly higher reinforce cost than current. This could well solve a lot of problems and make German infantry more potent early-midgame when needed. Higher reinforce cost makes them less spammable but cheaper initial cost gives them field impact when the first one hits.

The double shrek at 120 still makes me mad. I need the shrek to fight off the highly mobile clown car. I do not need TWO shreks at this point. Give me 1 at 70, two for 130, or maybe 65/65. I can not grok how they figured out these costs...

Shrek costs need to come down so Hit-The-I-Win-Button can be effectively countered with bundled nades. Making us buy two at 120 is hurting that ability badly...

Yeah, c'mon, vehicle pushing and cap-walking are the cheesiest, most worthless tactics ever, and the only reason no one complains about it is because it became part of the competitive game, and was a way good players could show their skill over mediocre players.

Otherwise all it does is speed up the capping, putting the focus back on the main fight. But it is a way the game got simplified a bit. The one subtle thing I miss from COH is that you could popcap your opponent, so it might be a strategic choice to cap the cut-off point on Ango while under fire. But in this game popcap is not linked to territory possession. I wish it was. Uber-tanks would stop rolling out when the game was already lost if territory was connected to popcap.

The new capping system is dumbed down actually, it makes good sense, but let's face it, it's removing a level of micro (fighting then capping) and noobs will never have to learn to NOT cap under fire now..so it's just another way they've made it more casual-player friendly.

I agree with a lot of that...

One point I'd like to make about combined arms. Combined arms don't win games, combined arms only allow you to compete and hold territory. What wins games? Shock units or a big push with one type of unit. For instance, the Flamenwurfer for Germans, or a massive T-84 rush, an M10 train in COH, a vetted Airborne blob, Vet Stukas, or uber-tanks.

Right now the problem late game is the Soviets need the combined arms but probably won't have the CP for the uber-tanks, which are actually quite good. By the time you get them, unless you've already dominated your opponent, they won't be that effective vs T4 armor, which is totally fine backed by Panzerwurfers, a lot of infantry. You actually even need T3 to ram and three SU-85s to take out a Panther. This is ok, if you can get past HIS infantry, but it still leaves the Soviets with no push unit, in my opinion, as you've had to sink too much into combined arms just to stay competitive.