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Was thinking of different possible 2v2 Strats after watching a few 2v2 cast. Obviously these strats would require high coordination but seem to be fairly complimentary.

The first one is probably the easiest since most people already do something similar. It requires 2 Soviet players 1 going for Soviet reserve while the other goes for Airborne but uses Penals instead of conscipts.

Soviet reserve players plays typical conscript style while laying down sandbags wherever possible. The Airborne player will be able to save muni since Penals players tend to store them during early game which allows them to upgrade Soviet Army fairly quickly. This allows the early game Strength of Penals to keep snowballing into extremely efficient SVT conscripts. Around the same time the commissar will be hitting the field which allow control of most engagements due to fear propaganda and commi buffs. Due to the increased performance saving MP should come rather easy allowing for Supply Drop to be spammed to give the Penal player needed AT while sandbags help with positioning and conscript provide snares. The goal would be to T34 rush but that depends on game circumstances. Rapid conscription and Propaganda along with mines would be spammed by Soviet Reserve player due to muni float.
Howi/PPSh would be situational, I suspect most players would counter with support weapons so Howi could be used instead of katy to save on micro. PPSH would be more for city maps but SVT would be the preferred upgrade regardless. The Airborne player would get AGuards most likely with LMG to keep with the theme of efficient trades but SMG guards could be used for cloaked sight.

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I would have been pissed as shit if I saw that. The only thing I can think of was the game already predetermined the shot as fired it was just going through the animation.

I lost a couple in row so I decided to go back to my more aggressive strats. At Cp2/3 I accidently picked Terror tactics so went with the T2 back tech. I didn't want to pick it in case he rushed tiger.

Skipped clown car since I had a feeling he would go for fussies, opening fights went his way at first but once I got 3rd penal I got good decaps and decent cover positioning so we were trading fairly good
I wanted to go for 120mm mortar in case he blobbed but picked terror so I quickly made Airborne and got LMG to counter fussies.
I lost a Penal squad but he lost VG with STG so decent trade, we both get LV, I do a decent job avoiding his and not letting him do to much damage.
Got AT gun out which made his Flak more passive, worked for me, replaced lost Penal with Airborne LMG so infantry fights are better suited my way but he does start to make Obers to counter.
I get KV8 out and bully his infantry, sometimes tag teaming T70 with KV8 to get quick model kills. He eventually gets out panther but I have 2 at guns so I keep him at bay. Him going panther worked out well since I really start to rack up kills.
I get Su85 which keeps his panther from diving and he gets a Tiger we keep prodding each other until I make a Katy.
On first katy strike he rushes me with Tiger/P5 and smoke run I see it coming but dont react fast enough. He beats up Su85 and 1 of At gun which I quickly recrew, his panther tries to run away so I box it in with KV8 and kill it. His tiger makes it though.
I have lost all vehicles except T70 so I feel like I still have a chance even though he has Tiger. I didn't lose any squads but I am pretty sure I got some wipes in the Chaos and killed his Flak so I can get back to bullying his Inf when tiger ain't there.
Tiger is a beast though, get lots of kills and wipes a Penal squad but I do get out Su85 fairly quick so it stops him from overrunning me.
I try to minimize bleed as much as possible to get KV8 back out, once I do back to bullying while recaping with T70. I have been getting decent amount of wipes on Obers(3 or more) so I pretty much have stronger inf force. He gets arty to wipe my AT but he never destroys it.
I eventually get 2nd KV8 and after some switching between tanks to keep pressure up. I base rush him while he retreats Obers and get several wipes while attacking and killing Tiger with SU85 as it tried to protect base.
GG

Thanks for reading and hopefully you like the game.

I remember initially the Shock Troops were called up with Mosin rifles and the PPSh-41 had to be bought for 60 ammunition, without any other alternative upgrades. This is actually not a bad idea. If the Shock Troops had some kind of alternative upgrade.

The issue is they come with armor, anything other than SMG would make them OP.

I feel they just need some utility, like the ability to decap faster to get back in the fight faster or to force enemy to come to them. Or maybe a muni ability where they do increased damage to units in buildings. Something to make them more enticing.

Shocks are still good. The fact that smoke nades and damage nades are on the same cooldown is really holding them back right now because a lot of other units are able to do that just fine with the one exception being shocks. We could see it in the last hotfix but it doesn't look like its a priority atm.

They are good, Airborne LMG is better and reg guards are great. They have amazing utility, good enough AI and can work as crutch AT if caught off guard. Every top cast or stream involves regular guards or SVT conscripts.

For shocks I think the issue is they really can’t branch out like other elite squads. If they were given fire superiority instead of posh airborne It would give them more utility. Airborne could then get tactical assault to differentiate them.

Edit: Don't want to derail but Assault Guards should have smoke instead of Airborne SMG, airborne has camo so it can use that while Assault guards get focused down before they can get Vet.