i always used to rush pgrens but they became too expensive...lately ive been going with 3 grens and an mg as a start and instead of saving munitions for shreks i go with a pak and i spend the munitions on lmg for grens it kicks ass and wit a cleverly placed teller mine or a simple faust u can engine damage any armoured threat and finish it with a pak im gonna upload a replay where i used this rough strategy
ok so if reds go t3 building panzer 4's might not cut it, so rather call in heavy tanks or panthers...i dnt genrally find paks to be too great vs red t3 the t34 are too quick...but what ive been doing allot lately is teller mines covered by pak or a quick faust on t34....once they have engine damage ur pak should be on it.
the one problem with trying a quick flank with a p4 or panther is there will be cons near by with AT nade and then ur dead...p4 is especially vunerable as at close range the panther could still take an su85 out head to head but a damaged p4 is dead vs su85
i often have to deal with kv8's and an IS2 in 1v1 i actually hate fighting that doctrin...but yes the is2 smashes infantry....on a few occasions it has two shotted my pgren shreck teams which is highly annoying its not bad vs armour but ive ive taken it out with 2 p4's with ease and tigers can do well vs them if they flank....the IS2 is quite slow....i never play as soviets but i can tell u they can be a big threat if micro'd well...ive also watched a replay of top players where in a 1v1 game an IS2 takes out 2 elephants...also with so much health it can take a punishing which makes its survivability pretty good.