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TL: DR but I think the Soviets get the more versatile mine because their anti-armor options aren't so great and the Ostheer get bunkers.

Now that builds are getting a bit more polished I think the four Conscript opening is too slow and very manpower intensive. I would rather see the fourth unit you build be a Combat Engineer and to build tier 2 or upgrade Molotovs. Basically getting a force multiplier to lock down an area of the map.

Conscripts cost 20 to reinforce while set up teams cost 15, even the HM-38 120mm mortar. Maxims can effectively hold down important sectors to get you faster resources and allow the rest of your mobile infantry to flank. They provide a really efficient manpower trade with how many model kills they can get and the ability to shoot even while pinned.

Guards are also essential if you are upgrading your Conscripts so much since button slows any vehicle to a crawl and reduces vision to almost zero giving you time to sticky bomb them.

This game when he goes into the house with the 42 you could have made a quick smaller mortar to negate it or a Maxim and sent it to the south with infantry support. Neither molotovs nor stickies are really going to help all that much in the first five minutes. The gas you save on upgrading the scripts so early can be invested in T3 or 4 for a fast T70 or Su-76.

I liked this match. Both players utilized the forest and true-sight well. I think Cataclaw could have ended the game if he called in an HM-38 120mm mortar around 13:50 to destroy the bunker then move very aggressively into the forest to bombard the top choke while the snipers spot for him.

Here's my first game of the day so it's pretty sloppy but this is the exact build I am opening with every game right now to great effect. I think if your micro is perfect you could get the T70 out by 8 minutes and maybe even less.


I think this 10:49 game is a good reason to consider giving the T70 a slight nerf. maybe to accuracy because the only early game soft counter is Panzerfaust and T70 can sit way out of Grenadier range and simply crush any other infantry.

Granted my opponent wasn't amazing, and my build of three Maxims is meant to bait out flamer so I can kill it with the T70, but this is getting to be a consitent win.

P.S. if it never gets nerfed I probably won't complain.

I'm no pro, in fact I'm a newbie but if anyone wants to shoutcast a game showcasing an extremely aggresive build that wins fast I have got what you want!

OK here's the ideal build even though my replay isn't optimal at all:
Engineer
Tier Two
Conscript
Maxim
Maxim
Maxim
Choose one: Guard Rifle, HM-38 120mm Mortar or Combat Medics if you've lost a lot of models
Tier Three
T70
Choose one: Guard Rifle, HM-38 120mm Mortar or Conscript
T34/76 or T-3485's if you made it to 4 command points which is much more likely to happen on a larger map.

I won three games in a row with this in 21:00 or less. This game seemed in the bag around 5:30 but I made a mortar instead of a Guard even though I suspected a Flamer half-track soon. It looks like Ostheer is going to just sweep me at 8:00 but all is not as it seems.

Some notable moments are:

3:00 Grenadiers step on at-mines even though he saw them placed

3:40 This battle utilizes true-sight quite a bit. The green cover will require the enemy to get very close to see you. From the Ostheer perspective with fog of war on you just get a flicker of my troops.

4:45 Sneaky Conscript micro to dodge a rifle nade. Notice the placement of my Maxim with him and how it's just out of range of his Grens seeing me hiding. true-sight is SO awesome!

5:15 I hop my Conscripts over the fence to flank in what looks like a staged moment to advertise the feature.

5:50 I would have liked to retreat my Combat Engineer about 40 seconds earlier to get the T70 out extremely fast but placing the mine was the safe play to do and it pays off at 9:30 earning the Engineer his Prefix: "Combat" when it kills two fresh Panzer Grenadiers allowing him force them to retreat from his flame thrower.

7:50 I blindly aim my unfired HM-38 where I suspect the enemy to be without having seen him move any troops there and get a nearly perfect hit.

13:00 looks like an exhibition match to showcase a perfect Maxim and ZIS flank with the T70 coming in to clean up the sloppy mess.