Profile of Nosliw

Intriguing. Sounds like an answer to late game vet5 okw blobs.

Although I feel KV2 fits this role better than the clunky ISU 152

How to play soviets:

Step 1, choose your mainline infantry to build exclusively: Penals, Guards, Conscripts

Step 2, rush T70

Step 3, choose your mainline tank to build exclusively: T34, Sherman

100% Formula for success

Only me, Budwise, and Smaug from Reborn play the game.

I'm pretty sure M42 would constitute as the lowest risk, lowest reward AT gun in the game.

Don't rule out SU!

A 2 engineer opening, followed up by 3 penal squads and then 3 guard squads is a potent, heavily infantry based fighting force against both OKW and OST. The nice thing is, it's so potent you can use this 8 infantry squad army to hold out till T4, and then use T4 units as "support". For example, you can make T34/85s (good vs all), or even choose the ISU-152 commander and support it with T34/76s.

Against campy play there is also Katyusha for support, and SU85 vs heavy armour. There is also a guards commander without T34/85 or ISU-152 that gives access to PPSH conscripts if you wanted more variety to your play. Also remember partisan doctrine, so you could do any 3 penal or 4 conscript opening and then use partisans to spearhead your attacks and flanks as they spawn out of buildings.

Another extremely potent and, in my opinion, broken strategy (only against OKW though) is the lend-lease doctrine. Simply make 4 conscripts, upgrade your engineer to a flamer, get base medics, call in 2 DSHks, and you have a potent infantry force that in 90% of games will pin the OKW in his base (since DSHK is so broken and insta-pins all). The only "weakness" of this strategy is a fast Luchs. Two notes against the Luchs: DSHK has AP rounds at vet 0. If the Luchs tries to engage a full health 6 man DSHK in a house, and you pop AP rounds, you will force the Luchs to retreat or it will die. Alternatively and what I prefer, is after the second DSHK you call in, retreat your Engi back to your base and build T2 if you are suspecting a Luchs and haven't scouted a medic truck. This way you can call in an AT gun if you see the suspected Luchs. After that of course you merely have to pool resources while you wait for shermans. If you scout the healing truck you can just skip building T2 altogether and make 0 base buildings while you wait for quad/sherman call ins. Very strong, broken build.

These are just my ideas and experiences with SU. There are so many good openings that all you to build up a very potent infantry force and then wait till call ins or T4 merely for "supporting" and for specializing your force.

Just as a reference, I'm 31-1 in my last 32 games as SU, with only 1 loss to an Ostheer player (so 0 losses using this lend-lease tactic, and most of the 32 games were against OKW players)