Profile of donofsandiego

What are you high or have you never played the game. That is the most stupid statement that I'v heard from you.

Show me your award-winning penal build that gets out a ZIS gun before a T70 because I'm pretty sure that most people go with the T70 first so they can deal with axis elites in a penal build.

I think the idea is to bring it in line with the Sturmpanther, whose turret only moves on command. Therefore making the AVRE more responsive.

If I remember correctly, the AVRE also uses a specific ability on the grid to shoot the petard mortar (correct me if I'm wrong).

After all, it would suck if the AVRE is aiming at some pioneers to the right of the AVRE, and there's some big blob all the way to the left, so the turret traverse prevents you from getting off a quick petard.

It better coordinates the faction and decreases PPSH as commander filler. Infantry Fortifications is a really rare bonus. They also fixed the tool tip, so it actually has an identity. Push with guards, howis, and heavy tanks, then fall back to defenses.

Infantry fortifications is Tank Traps, bunkers, and Soviet Shu mines. Pretty gnarly stuff. Looks like fun for a more passive play style.

Shu mines are the German equivalent to the normal soviet mine. Do you mean the light antipersonnel mines?

..The game equivalent to commissar is to inspire the soldiers and remove the machine gun suppression...

You know, I'm open to a lot of things, but I really doubt that life with the commissar was sunshine and puppydogs. Unless you're trying to tell me that the wikipedia page on the Soviet commissars is inaccurate and they actually weren't enforcers of political ideology and effectively military police troops.

Now I have no trouble beleiving that Soviet officers in general were brave and could rally their troops to arms. But the commissars have already been established as not leading troops personally. Have I been misled?

Alright use common sence here

1) In MP you are in full control of the army you have at your disposal.

Yes, and we have already established how that's a construct of the video game, and in real life these squads would be recieving orders from their superiors, passed down to them by their own superiors, and so on. So any argument about how "you are in full control" only works from a gameplay perspective and has nothing to do with the authenticity or plausibility of what we're talking about.

2) Retreating in MP is regrouping at the frontline HQ. Desertion\Unauthorised retreat would be squads running off-map.

A retreat is a retreat is a retreat. Considering that maps are composed of points of strategic interest like towns or factories, it's not impossible that troops can be assigned it as their post, even if the HQ is somewhere behind them. And no, desertion is leaving your assigned post. And a soldiers post can be a pile of sandbags if that's what their commander wants.

3) When you retreat squads, you give them an order to retreat and regroup...

Yes, and who is "you" exactly? It's funny that you mention that because we've already discussed it like three posts before. That's what they're there for, for reading.

I'm not going to repeat myself because it was long and lengthy but you're welcome to read it in its entirety a half a scrollwheel's length above.

4) In campaing...

Nothing to reapond to here.

We're talking multiplayer not campaign.

In any case what is this stupid aurgument anyway?

Someone mentioned that the Commissar squad could recieve a forward retreat point, and that it made sense because "Order 227 was a thing", and Kasarov took umbrage to that.

I've just been arguing that it's neither a stereotypical depiction of order 227 nor is it somehow completely historically inaccurate.