Profile of Burts

honestly, i might be able to see myself doing this with the germans, however with the soviets, no way am i going to manage.

some people don't seem to understand the problem.

Lets say we have a conscript squad. And an Mg-42 with a gren squad.

Oorah molotov costs the same as the riflegrenade , however, while getting close, conscripts will take considerable damage and will lose atleast 3 crewmembers. Lets say that is 60 manpower.
At best, they can kill 2 crewmembers, often , they wont kill anything.

Now lets say we have a grenadier approaching a maxmim,while 1 conscript squad is gaurding it. Maxim surpresses grenadiers, and grenadiers fire rifle nade. They kill 3 men, which is 45 manpower. And grens retreat with probaly no losses ( might have lost one).
So there you have it folks, that is the problem. Grenadiers can assault maxim and inflict manpower losses while losing no manpower, while soviets can assault an mg for and cause some manpower losses, but probaly taking more while doing so.

well, i still go ppsh + shocks into t-34s with soviets. Just because i kind of like the idea of a soviet army equipped with t-34s,howitzers, and lots of submachine guns.

I know this puts me in a disadvanatage since a tiger which is superior to t-34 in every way and costs less than my first t-34, but I don't care.

And you don't find either of those issues problematic? Did you play CoH? (genuine question) because there exhisted no boss Unit. Maybe the Flak88 and King Tiger/Pershing, but their power was NO WHERE near the stregnth of these CoH2 units. The flak88 was viewed as the most dead weapon, but now it's the ISU152 and Elefant which are MUCH MUCH more powerful.

Don't you want them out of the game? Don't you want this game to be about strategy, unit preservation, and micro? Does that make sense when unit exist that can wipe a vet 3 squad in one, or for sure, two shots? I think that subtracts from the gameplay.

Well, beating those units require significant micro, and keeping them alive also requires micro.
Countless times i have lost these units just because of a slight mistake. ISU-152 is the most unforgiving tank in the game. One single mistake = dead.
It's very hard to do an assault with them, and because you were saving up for them, it means that you probaly lost some map control while saving up for these units, but as i said, assaulting with them is really risky.

If you see an isu-152, retreat with your infantry. Same with elephant, see elephant. Dont drive with your tanks there. For one elephant you can get 3 t-34/76s. Elephant can only be in one place at a time,t-34/s can easily reposition. Ele in center? t-34s on flanks. Ele on right? T-34s on left. With isu-152 i don't even know what your talking about, i guess you just got mad because your pg + panzershreck blob got destroyed or something.
Think of it this way, why can 3 t-34/76s completely change the course of the game, while an isu costs the same as those t-34/76s , yet you complain that it can change the course of the game.


Oh, and this is coh 2, not coh 1, i guess you just complaining that this game is not coh 1, go play coh 1, this is not coh 1, this is coh 2.
IN coh 1 "super units" did not cost fuel. That's why they weren't so strong, because they DIDINT cost fuel and you could still back up your "super units" with some "not super units".
However, in the case of an isu-152, you will at best, have 1 t-34/76 supporting it.

the problem is not that shrecks are op, its that tanks are very inconsistent againts infantry, tanks should kill 1-2 guys with every shot againts troops in no cover. Sometimes they kill alot, sometimes t-34 shoots 5 shots without killing anybody.


Panzershrecks should be a defensive AT weapon, they shouldn't be used offensivelly. But they are, because tanks are too inconsistent againts infantry.