Profile of wayward516

Excellent Killhon, thanks! Based on your and undostrescuatro's statements, I'll be looking into the numbers of conscripts I'm building... My thought is that it is indeed too low and my early game is being thrown off because of that fact.

I appreciate you taking the time to post a constructive response.

Ok geez. What the heck is up with people? If asking for advice on a strategies forum is so frowned upon, I can certainly just go elsewhere. I guess newcomers just aren't welcome here, huh?

If anyone had bothered to read my post instead of just saying "zomg idiot newb pls die" I was attempting to discuss the relative merits of T1 vs T2 in dealing with Pio spam, then Scout Car spam shortly afterwards. I'm sorry that sort of thing isn't welcome on, god dammit, a STRATEGY forum.

Guess my well paying job and wife and kids are getting in the way of me being a l337 pr0 like Polygon and akosi.

Seriously, if this is the way you all treat a simple request for discussion, it's clear to me Relic's not the one standing in the way of this game's success.

To be honest, o l337 gamers who cannot be bothered to be polite or even read an entire post before spewing derision, I encountered this a couple times in 2v2 matches, and it threw me off a but. Shit, in a pinch you can take out a scout car with 2 conscript squads. I just thought "hey it'd be neat to see how I can be more proactive against Pio/scout spam!" didn't realize asking a question would get me shit all over by this forum's denizens. Silly me.

Ps thanks for taking the time to respond undostrescuatro. I appreciate it.

EDIT - if questions like this are so unwelcome, could someone just delete this thread please?

I am *very* excited about this. The Blitzkrieg games are awesome. Thaanks for sharing!

BTW, Blitzkrieg is techincally a Real-Time Tactics game, not an RTS.

So, I've been seeing this a bit lately, and it's been quite frustrating. Pioneers in enough numbers can take out capping Conscript squads, and the 222 is a good and fairly quick compliment.

T2 seems to work, but my inclination in the game at this point is to go t1 (for sipers, Penals and Scout Cars) into either t3 or t4 depending on the situation. T2 is IMO more viable now after the patch, but it's not really my go-to at this point.

Is the best way to go about this to simply hold off producing either t1 or t2 until you see whether they're building MGs or spamming Pios? Or is there a way to take more of an aggressive stance in the early game and punish them for spamming Pios?

As a Soviet player, I'm glad of the change. It feels like it's opened up the early game a lot since I'm now able to destroy or push off MG42s with a couple of Conscript squads, instead of being forced to design my entire early game around countering that one unit. Though, seeing some of the reasoning in this thread, I can see how German players would be frustrated by the relative weakness of the unit after the patch.

However, most of what I'm seeing in my games, and the implication I'm getting from posts in this thread is that German players are still expecting a single MG42 to hold areas against Soviet squads. They still seem quite effective when supporting other German squads.

I've seen squads slipping through the firing arc when there are a lot of targets but I don't consider it really that bad thing.

My least favorite thing about the MG42 before was that it could suppress like, 4 infantry squads being sent against it. It seems better to me now in that regard.