Profile of Porygon

Just get 4-5 Grens

(1) Get Elite troop
(2) Vet your Grens, like 2 squads
(3) Get LMG42 on them
(4) Watch the Cons die like flies
(5) Get Pak and Stug prepare for T-34/85
(6) GG

people still think there are crits in small arms combat? D:

Why not? I tried once, my Gren and his Engi engage, both in green cover, 10 secs later, 2 Gren models dead, no Engi hurt.

If it is not crit, WTF is that?

Too bad the notifications arrive on unit/building completion.

Can you actually read?

I was wondering why there is a thread like that before I know you play COH2 first.

For doctrine, there is no strongest, they are all supporting and matching your different your style and strategy.

For faction, there is no strongest thing.

- US, faction of assault and flanking
You need to keep flanking, attacking, harassing, gain vet and make your troop becomes ultra human.
Their tank are speedy but little bit squishy. You need to flank and micro against Axis armor.

- Wehr, faction of defense, and late game dominance
So basically you just need to sit in a portion of the map, dug in, defend well and spread forward. Vet gained by purchasing. It is very easy in low level but hard in high level because high level player can flank you very well.

- PE, faction of ultra extensive micro and assault
Their units are very squishy, speedy, but they are WTFpwning machine if you keep them alive. Anyone with excellent micro can play this faction well.

- Brit, faction of dickhead turtle, blob, abusive, A-move
They are slow, but everything got very high health and punch quite good. Infantry are based on blobing, Roo and Faghound were the most hated units because of their high health, high speed, crazy DPS, and don't need to micro at all (Roo was nerfed to ground though). You need to learn how to abuse this faction well, or you cannot win a single game.

That still doesn't change the fact that maxim is much more micro intensive.

Seriously? You just have to learn using the maxim different from MG42

(1) Use in choke
(2) Use in buildings
(3) Use TrueSight to ambush
(4) Use deep snow bullshit preventing flanking
(5) Much longer forgiving time against flank because nothing beside PG can wipe them down quick
(6) Use as aggressive weapon instead of defensive weapon, you just need to use the maxim to fire their bullets for 1 sec, suppressing the gren, then your cons can rape them, and change to another target

That joke "In Soviet Russia, MGs flank you", it can be true.

But MG42? Before T2, you need a backup MG42 protecting another MG42 from lolotov, only Gren cannot stop Cons flank. A successful lolotov land on MG42 face = Ostheer no longer own that area. COH2 MG42 is ultra micro intensive. There is no more MP40 Volks, 25 muni mines, For the Papaland saving your ass.

And i know that this sound very soviet biased. But im fucking ashamed of people who are just complaining when Soviets manage to counter their überunit. Stop saying that Germans require so much skill to play! Ask yourself a question : Which faction has to use weaker units (by stats) and depend on their abilities?

I disagree, all Soviet games I played is like

(1) Spam
(2) Flank & Swarm oooooorrrhhaaa, without risk
(3) Use ability, if almost dead, "T" (they are quite surprising durable)
(4) Get map control
(5) Camp at cutoff
(6) German died

There is no real quality > quantity in this game, if yes, Soviet should feel like Zerg, numerous but weak (that I loved in SC2), but in the end I feel like their speed and spamming natural like Zerg, but having the power of Protoss. If you play Starcraft you know what I mean.

But as playing Ostheer, I always need to take risk, worrying where would he flank, worrying when will he cut me off and need to come back and defend, worrying a partisan come out from nowhere fucking my support weapon, worrying mines squad wiping my hard vetting dudes, etc, etc. But I still prefer Ostheer because I feel like playing an RTS, not lazy faceslaping my opponent.