Profile of van Voort

Anti-Infantry Uncommon

Why just be anti-infantry when you can terrify them.

Hence Terror is better

Shocks

Recon

Fear Propaganda Artilery

Incendiry Barrage

KV-8

Soviet Shock Army Common

Only useful I think if you must have shocks + 120mm, or you have no fuel, or you want to spend all your fuel on tank spam

Shocks

120mm Motar

PPSH

152mm howitzer

23mm Strafe

Soviet Combined Arms Common

Is very close to Guard Combined Arms, but probably better on open maps

Guards

Recon

ATG Ambush

152 howitzer

IL-2 bombstrike

Gokkel started with OKW

http://www.coh2.org/topic/23463/okw-commander-evaluation

Austerlitz did OKH

http://www.coh2.org/topic/23503/wehrmacht-commander-evaluation


Here is my take on the Soviets.


I am mostly a team player game so mostly writing with that in mind:


Guard Motor Co-ordination Common

For a long time this was one of THE doctrines, especially during the Era of the Unnerfed Tiger Ace. It remains a solid choice for anyone struggling against German Armour and greatly complements a T1/T4 build. It's main weakness is a lack of off map call ins, but with guards and Mark Target there are plenty of other good things to spend munitions on.


Guards

Best seen as light at support troops with some AI capacity and pretty much eaten by OKW infantry.
However they are a threat to their light armour such as Luchs and pumas.
Because they are not so common button is often unexpected and so smoke unavailable as such it can be an unwelcome surprise that will ruin someone's day.


120mm Mortar

Nice base truck you have there, shame if anything were to happen to it

Vehicle Repair

Meh

Mark Target

See that heavy armour? It's dead. Excellent for throwing into a fight you aren't even in which makes it a call in in all but name


2 x T34/85

Handy, powerful and hard hitting. Use these to give offensive punch to an SU-85 build or hold off to 10CP for the win



Guard Motor Combined Arms Common

Not highly favoured, but on the right map against the right opponent, useful

Hit the dirt

I'm going to lay still and get mortared and grenaded to bits
Pass

Guards

PPSH
If you can get close up, which makes this map dependent, this can help scale conscripts into the late game

152mm Howitzer

Fixed artillery is not so sexy, but OKW give juicy targets

23mm strafe

It's ok


NKVD Rifle Disruption

Considered a joke because you get no units, but has some niche abilities

Radio Intercept

Because knowing is half the battle

Recon

Nothing with recon is terrible

Fear Propaganda Artilery

Generally it is better to kill than pin then retreat. But it does stop capping and that's occasionally useful, and it is cheapish. And on a big map with restricted mobility (like Hill 331) it's a long walk back to the fight for OKH who cannot set up forward retreat units

Rapid Conscription

I don't use any of the munitions to manpower if you get killed abilities

23mm Strafe


Shock Motor Heavy

ISU-152 is not the god unit anymore but it is still pretty good and this commander gives you up close infantry and death from afar.

Shock Troops

Get close and go toe to toe with elite OKW infantry, but too many will drain MP like no tomorrow

Armoured Vehicle Detection

Never used this and I don't feel I am missing out

Conscript Repair

If you still have conscripts by the time this comes out, maybe situationally useful

IL-2 Bombstrike

BOOM

ISU-152

Wah! My vetted infantry got wiped!
Axis players hate this unit and will try to kill it with extreme prejudice, don't buy it if you can't protect it

Later

What are they really though? The doctrine description makes it seems like they could be other Axis troops such as Hungarians, Italians, Romanians, etc

Minor Allies such as the above


Volksdeutch (ethnic Germans from outside Germany)


Various anti-communist/nationalist forces raised from the Soviet Union with a variety of motivations and purposes


Very few of those units are interested in dying for a Greater Germany

That they fire less rounds doesn't really matter though. Peter Qumsieh said that the first shots are the ones that count anyway, that's why they halved the amount of shots.

That would only be true against mobile targets and only if you want to kill stuff

If you want to do area denial though...

Excellent! This is pretty much my preferred way of playing soviets since so far I find molotovs too random with just a few squads, don't like clowncars or relying on flamer crits, and refuse to be a maxim spammer. I'd really like to try this out with the advanced warfare commander, but he seems to have vanished from space and time...

Advanced Warfare was a one-off give away that was available for one week only, same time as OH Close Air Support.


We don't know if or when it will ever come back