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This doesn't always kill a man in the squad though does it? I ask this because this ability is like never used against me. I use it a bit and have been doing it more but I sometimes still see 4 men in the squad when it goes up. It does kill though, I have seen it a number of times.

I ain't to concerned about the kills, I use it primarily for the vision but it would be nice to know.

Yeah I would like it aswell. Good option to have when you don't care what to play. I typically just play as which ever faction will get me the fastest game, unless I want to try a specific stratergy/faction in particular.

I have given my fair investment of time to SU-76's and have concluded they are good units and I believe have won me games where the standard SU-85/katuysha would have failed. If your going to get them, 3 SU-76's is a perfect number in my opinion.

The strength of SU-76 play shines when your opponent aims to play for a heavy T2 based play and transitions to T3. Against this style of play they cover one another extremely well provided you use barrage individually. Whilst one is barraging, the other SU-76's can fire normally which often misses but causes the opponents units to frequently jump, sort of like the PTSR guard rifles. If they move out of the barrage circle, you simply barrage closer with another SU-76. Make them run the gauntlet and if they choose to retreat, you can hunt them down to the base under some circumstances.

You will be surprised how 3 SU-76's can also handle a P4 tank as long as you have good map awareness and conscript/guard support. The SU-76 outrange the P4 and penetrate quite frequently. Not bad in my eyes, but just beware that thy die fast so you have to keep up that reverse micro.

If you go for an katuysha/SU-85 against heavy T2 play you can sometimes get in a world of hurt. Heavy t2 HT, shreck, pak40 to t3/ostwind or t4/brummbar is my favourite method of killing these standard T1-T4 Soviets. SU-76 though is a great unit because you can extremely easily deal with the infantry threats whilst having a solid transition unit as the Ostheer player begins to get tanks. Sometimes you can get caught out going for Katuysha then an SU-85 to deal with the infantry heavy T2, where a quick Ostwind/P4 can sometimes suprise you.

SU-76 is an under rated unit that just demands a different mindset and playstyle.

Hi strategists,

I play the Russians mostly and I am wondering about the early gren vs conscripts battles. Should I narrow the distance between the grens or stay at range?

Hey wcTGgeek,

CoH2 does not work like CoH1 with the classic volk vs rifle engagements, where rifles win close whilst volks win at long range. That distance-dance game no longer exsits nowadays in CoH2. In engagements a conscript and gren are technically equal with respect to health and small arms fire damage at all ranges. Distance does not play a factor as to who will win. The engagement is decided out of who utilized cover better and often 'luck' in whos unit gets more accurate shots off.

The engagement in an actual game is ultimately decided by if you catch your opponent out of cover initially, get an extra squad in the engagement or units bug out and don't stay in their cover (more common with conscripts than grens).

The engagement is designed to be won by a grenade ability. Where Grens win at long range whilst Conscripts win that at close range.

Personally I think the HT reinforcement is fine the way it is. It is a mobile unit that when used in conjunction with infantry can be used aggressively. If you can't reinforce people would be less inclined to make quick assaults into the opponents territory.

As for reinforcing on your cut off, yeah it can hurt a lot but try your best to prevent it to getting to that point. Maybe if in the upcoming patch Conscripts get buffed you will notice this effect less.