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Yeah not sure how I feel about them yet and will give a better opinion in the future. Still need more time to test it out a range of viable counters but Semois/Ostruppen is doing definitely my head in a bit in how to counter effectively.

Everyone saying that the DLC commanders will make it pay to win is thinking to far ahead. If I recall, this was a very similar discussion that took place when all the other new commanders came around. Even though those one didn't introduce new units I still found the free ones to be just as good or if not better in most situations. Give it time.

Getting angry because you have to pay more? Fair enough I understand your point but for me I really couldn't care if I pay an extra $10 for new commanders that can offer a new style of play. I enjoy the CoH series enough that money does not limit my level of enjoyment. Pretty sure the 1500+ hours I got from CoH1, a $30 game at the time of purchase, definitely got its money worth from me.

Same can be said for CoH1 with the OF/ToV DLC units. They evnetually get balanced up so I can't see what the problem is. Just will need more time since more factors are thrown into the system.

It is just two factions in the end and I would be pulling my hair out when they introduce new factions, like so many people on the official forums/facebook ask for. That is a problem. New units can be incorprated with two faction based play over time, but extra factions break things.

I agree though that other functions should be fixed/incorporated first like lobby, ladders, responsiveness ... etc, before new content is made.

I want to want to use this in 1v1 because of those sweet, sweet radio intercepts. I just can't bring myself to pick something that doesn't give me either Shock Troops or Guards. I imagine NKVD could be useful in 2v2 or 3v3. Anyone have any good experiences with it there?

Also, I must be an exception to the "all Soviet players float muni" rule because I often spend munitions as fast as I can get them. All of the various grenades, plus mines, flares, and mortar precision strikes... it gets expensive fast. I posit that if you're floating tons of munitions as Soviets, you're not playing the faction to its fullest. Anyway, that's just another reason for me to avoid this doctrine and its wonderful, beautiful maphacks radio intercepts.

Disagree, I can make radio intercepts viable in a 1v1 game and its damn good. You do not need Shocks/Guards if you have solid combined arms micro with T2-T3 based play.

What I do is get 4 conscripts and play a flanking based style of play with molotovs. After you finish your T2 tech at this point you can generally get radio intercepts and see what you should build next whether you need an immediate ZiS-3 (FHT), mortar(heavy T1) or maxim (PG). Once you get the fuel for to T3, get a couple of T34/76 tanks and hold out til you can get an IS-2. Do not go T4, because my personal opinion is that T4 is utterly useless now without Guards. SU-85 are over nerfed and to easy to avoid or kill.

I am using Armoured Assault to do this and not NKVD though. I shall test with NKVD in the future. However, since flanking was reintroduced these two doctrines have become x5 time more better to play with.

Put it in the replay section

Would be a good idea to link the replay in this thread aswell

Vanilla Conscript vs LMG Gren- don't even bother
PPSH Conscript vs LMG Gren- doctrine specific and still inferior
Molotovs- does very minimal damage unless you get a lucky crit, and easily dodged
Shocks- doctrine specific and 2x cost but only slightly better
Penals- too expensive and suck
Guards- they are decent but grenade is overpriced and the weapon drop rate is ludicrious
Sniper- only reliable counter, and early T1 forces a doctrine with Guards or easily punished by German T2 vehicles
Maxim- nerfed too hard, doesn't kill enough now
Mortars- relying on luck= no bueno

• Agree. Vanilla conscripts are to vulnerable. Molotovs or houses are your friends now.
  
• Some what disagree. Molotov is solid imo as it does force your opponent to move which lets you get in more damage. Keep in mind you don't always have to throw it, you can bait an opponent and make them react and quickly cancel.
  
• Disagree. Shocks destroy LMG grens, all you have to do is get close. Aim grenades on the biggest clump or the man with the LMG to buy yourself an extra 1-2 secs of no damage.
  
• Agree. Penals seems harder to use verse LMG.
  
• Agree. Guards don't fancy but hey they shouldn't imo.
  
• Agree. Snipers.
  
• Some what agree. Maxims actually do quite well but you have to give them a lot of forward vision and catch the Grens at a distance.
  
• Disagree. Mortars are actually good verse LMG. The key here is to fight from long-mid range with Conscripts and force a cover shoot out. Eventually that mortar will hit and once you get it to vet1, no capping Gren is safe.
  

I sort of play it like CoH1 Rifles vs Volks spam, which I felt was the Volk spam was the BO with most potential aggresion if America screwed up a single time. Very similiar to that of Gren spam with LMG. With my Rifles I would always play it defensively but the moment you find the opportunity I pounce on it. In this case though my BAR's are my Shock Troops. I have that mindset and it seems to work against a lot of the high ranked Ostheer players that primarily just spam Grens/LMG and extend to T2 or straight T3.

In the mid-game stages I feel as I said my Shocks handle them find, T3 anti-infantry vehicles and T2/T4 arty.