Profile of Aerohank

you need abusive things

These 4 words sum up how playing soviets feels this patch.

I personally like to go for the soviet defensive doctrine.

My build order is roughly:
> T1 right of the bat
> con-penal-con-penal
> Medics
> 2nd engineer

At this point you are probably losing a lot of ground to the German super soldiers. However, all of this will change once you hit 2cp, which you should be closing in at this moment. Once you hit 2cp, use your engineers to spam tiny mines EVERYWHERE. Spend all your ammo on tiny AI mines, leaving only a small reserve for AT nades. Build some regular AT mines too later on.

> DHSK machine gun
> AT nades + tiny AT gun if needed
> Mortar if needed

> T3/T4 depending on map. If you go for T4 add in some SU76 for free barrage.

> Enjoy germans rage when he loses unit after unit to cheap mines. Prepare for hurtful comments like "NICE P2W!", "ABUSER!", "F*CK THIS" etc.

Remember! Don't try to win by shooting the germans with bullets! The soviet guns only fire blanks, and half the grenadiers are armed with sniper rifles. Use things that go boom instead.

I dont base my strategy on luck. and the maxim is not the same as a mg42. Riflenades nades need to stay to prevent maxim spam from taking the entire map.

I dont think people want to understand that this ability is one of the few counters to maxims. removing it will greatly upset early game balance

No, it will just upset the early game balance for you, because you refuse to use mortars.

The german mortar fires fast and fires accurately enough to counter maxims.

PS: Also snipers.

Half the german T1 units counter the maxim. Use them.

Great i see the future already Maxim + guard spam everywhere

Indeed. If only the germans had some sort of unit out of their T1 building that could lob mortars at static targets. Or some other unit in their T1 building that could pick the maxim crews/guards off one by one from long range. But alas, the german T1 building only has grenadiers! Whatever can the poor germans do?

Scripts with molotovs destroy mg42 i see no reason why grens with riflenade cannot do the same.
And i see no reason in your suggestion to use very frail support weapons to counter a cheap maxim.

Conscripts need to flank. A frontal assault with a script on a mg42 will result in a 3~4 dead conscripts before they can get of a molotov, if they can even get into range to throw one in the first place, which is unlikely. There is no way you can do this cost-effectively as the soviets.

Meanwhile, a grenadier squad can do a frontal assault on a maxim, get off a rifle nade, and kill 3-4 maxim crew members. You don't need to flank a maxim to get cost-effective engagements against the maxim with grenadiers. Just attack from the front and rifle nade away.

But the fact that you don't see any reason why you should use anything but grenadiers against static machine guns (it also works against the expensive DHSK) tells me that you probably don't see a problem with this.

Use teller/riegel mines against the KV-8.

Now that vanilla grenadiers are solid units, the germans no longer need to spend a lot of munitions to compete with soviet infantry. So you should have plenty of munitions for mines.

Of course, you could spam G43s/LMG42s and S-mines to cause heavy soviet MP bleeding, but then you run the risk of not having enough mines in place to halt a KV-8. The choice is yours.