Profile of JohanSchwarz

@Blovski: The Su-76 offers some decent anti-infantry with its barrage ability; not enough to handle infantry on its own but supplements snipers quite well. Snipers are also quite a nuisance without the AC or strafing run. Even if you are able to use a halftrack to reinforce your troops it is still a considerable manpower drain (and prohibits the use of panzergrenadiers with shrecks). Moreover, I believe strafe (correct me if I'm wrong) does not affect units in holds, so building a SC later can help you preserve your snipers once German ACs are dead.

But yes, I do agree with you that T3 currently is a viable alternative to T4 because T1 is much weaker since last patch.

@Hissy: You're assuming the German player has a completely unsupported P4 with no panzerschrek or AT gun nearby. It takes quite a long time for a T70 to kill a P4. The ram ability is also considerably less effective post patch: if there's any obstacle in your path (including a crater from explosions) and the P4 reverse moves, the T34 will more likely than not overheat and become a sitting duck and free XP for the P4. The P4 also can hug the T34 as well.

@Blovski: I do agree that the T1 part of the T1+T4 atm is harder to pull off as the AC is quite effective vs. snipers now and you only need to spend the 25 fuel instead of 50 for two, but it doesn't really change the fact that once the Soviets get to picking between T3 and T4, the latter is generally the more cost effective choice.

The Soviet weak early game is caused by the AC (which I do think is a little too versatile post-patch) but in this thread we should treat that as a separate issue as once (if) that is changed T1+T4 will become the default route once more.

The only real reason the Soviets have to choose T3 over T4 is anti-air for strafing run, which is another problem completely and probably deserves its own thread. Again.

Faust kills T70 in one-hit? I have no idea what game you are playing but it sure isn't CoH2.

Even if the T70 gets fausted, most of the time it will gladly force retreat or outright kill the squad and then proceed to self-repair (since on the T70 it isn't doctrinal). If that isn't good anti-infantry I don't know what is.

If you play careful and manage to get one to vet one you can just use the blitzkrieg ability it rapes su 85's its just pitiful watching it try and turn as it gets nailed happened to me several times today. I tried to button it but they just used smokes.

At the same time, the Su-85 gets that super sight range at Vet1 essentially eliminating any need for the cone ability, meaning the "nerf" essentially did nothing.

You can't use the P4 veterancy as an argument against the Su-85's cost-efficiency. That would be like me saying Maxims are better than MG42 because they get a sprint ability at Vet1 that can outrun the MG42's deploy time.

And if the German P4 is blitzing into your Su-85, why was there no conscript to nade the P4? It is much more effective than buttoning when they have smoke. Mines would do the trick as well.

Anyone else notice that big cluster of buildings in the middle of Semoskiy is actually just a big cluster of dice-rolls?