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The 120mm has always been a unit that is pretty much useless three out of four games, then wipes a few squads when the RNG planets align in the fourth one and the german player comes whine on the forums how it's uncounterable.

The douchegun is doomed no matter what with the current commander it is in. Might as well make it seem unattractive even cost wise to stop people from wasting their time with it.

Uploaded wrong game, I'm so bad at this.

SMines are more the problem than pios. M3s are the natural counter to this strat, but S-mines counter those. I like the assault pios. The problem with pios charging cons in cover and winning is the result of the bad conscript DPS at range.

IMHO the M3 should take less damage from S-mines, I think it would be balanced if driving an M3 through the entire field left it at half-health, so every patch you hit takes off an 1/8th or so.

With the m3 armor nerf and the pioneer damage boost, they're actually the most efficient german infantry unit against m3s for cost now. As long as you're blobbing with pios (and everyone who is spamming them generally is), m3s can do nothing to them even ignoring smines.

Yes, but not in automatch. While the average population on coh1 was maybe around 7000 daily, Relic Online also gave us the exact numbers of players playing each mode and automatch was pretty much always less than 1000 people (custom games had a lot more people playing, as did combined singleplayer skirmish+campaign). CoH2 probably has quite a bit more players on automatch even though the online population is lower, but they're also spread over 2 more game sizes.

Those opinions are very subjective, yes soviet community doc might not be good, but not because that it's bad, it's just that rifle grenades right now are crazy.

Even if you removed riflenades from the game, you are still sacrificing all your commander abilities for 1. A super bad ZIS for 200mp 2. An expensive maxim that has the ability to kill T2 vehicles if your opponent drives straight down the firing cone and you saw it coming beforehand 3. 120mm and 4. A really bad version of smines. With the drop in T2 cost these units are worse than ever, and they never were any good after the initial halving of the dshk dps.

Conscript support? Why is it bad? It gives your conscripts alot of versatility.

Rapid conscription is extremely gimmicky and pretty much never worth using over any other kind of munition ability. Hit the dirt is just yellow cover that is asking for a tank squish or riflenade. ppsh are a weapon you're better off without. All this really leaves is incendiary barrage (available in plenty of other commanders) and conscript repair (ditto).

Even before when ppsh was still useful and by extension hit the dirt was a bit better, this doctrine still didn't offer anything over the more versatile ppsh doctrines that gave you a unit call-in.

Shock motor heavy vs mechanized support? Why are shocks troops bad? That is a very subjective opinion on whether someone prefers shock troops or gaurds. On a close range map like stalingrad, i would much rather choose shock troops over gaurds. Mark vehicle? Well since the isu-152 is getting at buff next patch my guess is that the mark vehicle is sort of going to be overkill next patch, the ISU-152 is another thing. It not being viable is going to be addressed in the next patch. Right now the ISU-152 is worse in anti tank than the IS-2 for some reason...

Because they are, sorry. Shocks are the most worthless unit in the game for cost right now. But let's ignore that and pretend they're useful: Mark target is the single most powerful antitank ability soviets get. On the other hand armored detection is among the worst commander abilities in the game, it's just a waste of muni that does nothing you couldn't do by just listening to game sounds, looking at the graphics in the fog or just using the 3 times cheaper and twice as effective tracking on several soviet units at veterancy 1. So basically it's shocks+conscript repair vs guards+mark target+AT gun camo (arguably fairly useless). There is just no contest if you ask me, just mark target alone is better than shocks+conscript repair combined, then you get guards on top of that.

Why is german defensive doc bad? Tank traps have low health, but that still doesn't make them useless, for example festung armor has a pak 43, and has railway arty instead of sector arty, in my opinion,sector arty is way better, since it basically shuts down an entire sector for a minute.

No, their health does in fact make them useless. A tank trap that dies to two shots from a tank isn't useful in the least. Sector artillery is the easiest to dodge artillery in the game, and is extremely map specific to boot. Trenches are arguably better right now when conscripts are so weak that molotovs are rarer. Of course there is actually no reason to make them because soviets have a far easier time to get stuff out of them than germans so they're just a risk. And hull down is the least used german commander ability period, and mostly for good reason (while the bonuses are ok, it just doesn't fit any gameplay situation you realistically find yourself in)

Sector artillery doesn't shut down any sectors, as long as your units are constantly moving and don't have another unit following them in the case of infantry (you can have two or even three vehicles trailing each other because they're much faster), sector artillery will in fact never hit a thing. It has no movement prediction whatsoever.