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Nice move by my opponent to mount his Panershrecks in his half-track and blitz my tank but the T-34 had acceleration increases in recent patches so... sorry

At 2:40 I make a 2nd Combat Engineer to get the tier 2 Special Weapons building out but the moment my Conscripts see the watchtower being captured I know I want to put up a fight there so I instantly cancel the CE and upgrade the Field Infirmary to heal the inevitable damage from that engagement.

At this point I sacrifice some micro with my Conscripts and lose a few models in favor of getting tier 2 down the moment I had 240 manpower.

We're trying to conserve fuel in this build so I'm not going to get another Conscript upgrade. Instead I spend 60 munitions to upgrade my CE with a ROKS-3 flamethrower to help as a force multiplier to help push back in the center without wasting precious fuel or manpower on Molotovs or another Conscript.

If I had somehow taken the center at this point I would spend the munitions on mines at the chokes instead to fend off armor. And maybe even skip Field Infirmary to have fuel to get T3 out even faster.

At 4:40 I see the opponent capping a territory point and I immediately fan out my troops to yellow cover. Do this to reduce incoming splash damage and to improve your sight radius in many directions while simultaneously concealing your troops.

I normally go Maxim first but mortars are so good on blizzard maps and I wanted to get the MG42 out of the watchtower without taking casualties. Lucky for me my opponent also built one and Soviet mortars outperform them for sure.

At 10:15 I land a perfect blind mortar hit and my Recon Overflight let's me see everything. Around 14:00 I start using the vet 1 precision strike with the mortar to concentrate damage on the infantry then the mortar halftrack. My T70 does some sweet ice-skating, farms some anti-tank kills for his bulletin and it's over just like that.

Despite Soviets being obviously the more aggressive faction, I would recommend making your first three or four units, then building tier two and scouting your opponent.

At this point in the game (3-5 minutes) you should be able to have some good map control and bait out the Ostheer player's tier one units by pushing into their territory a bit and forcing their hand. Don't worry, you can just retreat if you have to and you can spend your munitions on AT mines along your retreat path.


They have an Mg42? Make a Maxim. they can fire even when pinned.

They have a mortar? Maxim. You can just run at the mortar.

They have a sniper? Maxim.

OK, you could make a mortar first against a sniper but happy aiming I'd rather make a Maxim or even a Conscript to just exert more map control and avoid the sniper. He will die as soon as you have a T70 or Su-76 out anyway.

Replay for an example of reactive play: http://www.coh2.org/replays/4607/soviet-build-analysis-over-in-less-than-700

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Here's how I countered tier two rush.

At 3:40 soon as I saw the two Pios attacking my munitions point I suspected he was skipping tier one.

At 4:15 my new engy immediately starts covering the sector with mines. I Want to hit his Flammenwerfer but the mines also consistently kill 2 Panzergrenadiers which is devastating.

6:20 confirms tier two, then my Maxim can see the Flammenwerfer idling at the VP so I assume it's upgrading and set more mines in the center. Normally I would go Guards Rifles next but I get the 120mm out instead as I figure I can lure him into mines and just retreat if I need to. I like starting the area denial very early with the HM-38. the mortar is so devastating it leaves few options to the Ostheer.

I get cocky with my T70 (as if that's something new ) and get hosed by a PAK, but when the second T70 comes out follow it to see a sweet armor battle. I thought the Ostwind was going to go to the middle vp rather than over the bridge so I layed down 2 barrages of smoke to cover my front and delay any retreating I would have to do and flanked with the T70 only to play a little David & Goliath.

While I get a few units wiped, notice they are early Conscripts and Engineers. I'm feeling less bad about losing units lately when it frees up manpower for me to pump out higher tier stuff. All this Conscript spam people do seems one dimensional and easilly countered. This is by far the most versatile of the Soviet Doctrines in my opinion.

I didn't realize til I watched this again how my opponent stopped building things all together after his initial build. I'm a total newb too so I'm still proud of this game