Profile of What Doth Life?!

So use the T70. It melts infantry and can be out at like 8 minutes.

Granted this guy was level 17. I thought the possibility of him being a newb was there, and while his micro was pretty good, he had the worst build ever. I can't hate cuz we've all been there. (if only there was some sort of... ladder or... brackets...hmmm)

This was my first game of the night and I wanted to focus on reducing my resource floating as much as possible.

I'm paying attention to manpower for the most part which goes something like:
Conscript float 13

Conscript float 04

Conscript float 137

- note here I was waiting for 240 for a Combat Engineer to build Tier two or for 250 for Field Infirmary if I took losses. I will occasionally make a fourth Conscript here too if I lost my engagements or if he has an MG42 locking down a sector. Upon evaluation of the battlefield (I play Soviets reactively) I saw a perfect timing window for...

Molotovs float 0

Tier Two float 20 - Tier Two and the Maxim ended up having impeccable timing with each other and I just loved the interaction between keeping his grens from standing still with Molotovs while the Maxim charged into battle in true Soviet fashion. It's just such an aggressive unit!

Maxim HMG float 18

Shock Troops - when I finally realized what was happening the timing was perfect for my first command point and I ended it.

Notice the timing of Molotovs was a read of my opponent and I would have normally built another engineer to build tier two while my first engineer lay mines in the South. If this had been a "Molotov" build I could see them being out on the field 26 seconds earlier.

If and when I start playing Ostheer more I think mortar half track will be a favorite of mine. I just have a thing for call-in mortars and I really want to see an MG, Sniper or some sort of scouting unit as a tier one or two call-in.

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I always make 2-3 Maxims in my builds and I'll say the best counter I've come up against is, of course, Flammenwerfer half track (which doesn't take that bad of damage from Maxims,) but if you committed early to tier one as Ostheer I highly recommend getting a mortar. Many people have tried countering with snipers but they simply don't bleed Maxims fast enough.

One of the reasons Maxim spam is so effective is a lot of Ostheer players go MG42 first, set it in a church and just let it stay there for like eight minutes. I just avoid it and cap the shit out of the map. I played a match on Moscow Outskirts that lasted 30 minutes and I don't think his MG got a single kill.

Unless you are going fast tier 2 with Ostheer I would recommend making a gren or two and wating til about 3-6 minutes to see what card the Soviet plays. Think of soviet like Zerg in that they are highly aggressive and can cheese but they are also an effective reactive faction. If you make an MG42, Mortar or Sniper too soon they can tech up to tier one or two accordingly as a counter.