Profile of Strummingbird

Enter as often as you like, the more the merrier!

Good to hear, ms-painting is turning out to be more enjoyable than playing the game itself

No offense intended to Barton or OMGPOP of course

Commie:
Guard motor coordination
Guard Rifle
Shock Rifle
Counterattack
Industry or Terror- not too sure how good Industry is now though

Nazi:
Elite Troops in all it's glory
Joint Ops
Spearhead
Lightning War
Mechanized or Ostrupp

Here's something I came up with earlier:
Memoirs from the Eastern Front


May I ask if I can edit my submissions or submit more than one?

The IS2 costs more rhan the Tiger. Fact. If they dont wanr it to be as heavy than make it cost 200 Fuel. That works too.

Your point is that the IS2 costs more and has lower HP. On the other hand it has more armor at 325, and other than the Pak43 the units with the highest penetration are the Panther and Pak 40 at 170. Your implication that the high armour of the IS2 is useless here:

Since ost has so many high pen units SU might as well ignore the armor stat and focus on hps.

is entirely incorrect, as these units have only a 52% chance of getting a damaging hit on the front.

You also happened to miss the facts that the IS2 has higher penetration than the Tiger, lower rate of fire, larger AoE, higher damage, lower rear armor, appear in differetlnt doctrines, and appear in different factions, thus will counter different units and will face entirely different counters itself.

My point? The two tanks serve two different roles for two different factions. Comparing the units head to head, stat-wise, is pointless. Best to see if the two units are worth their costs in their respective roles- for example, the IS2 serves admirably against the small squad sizes of the Germans and tier 3 tanks (maybe with the exception of kiting Stugs) while being inefficient against an opponent who took the opportunity to tech to Panthers while you waited for 9CPs. On the other hand the Tiger can cost-effectively take on heavy call-ins like the IS2 being cheaper and better in the anti-tank role while not being nearly as effective at clearing the map of Soviet infantry. Apples and oranges, really.

So now im stuck either being bored on easy just to play a game i love or end up in a mental hospital over trying to beat standard mode.

The AI can't beat straight conscript spam to call in, or grenadier spam to whatever you want- ostwind, brummbar, tiger, anything. For that matter the AI can't really beat much of anything, but that's the easiest and most straightforward way that I think of.