Most Recent Game - 2v2 - Commrade_General as Soviets

2v2 on Semosky Winter

Pretty messy game as Soviets. Started an early rush for mortars as I anticipated early occupation of buildings by German MGs. Although I was correct, I had little infantry to prevent that harassment of my weapon teams and got pushed back heavily in early game. At that point I was pretty worried as I usually get pigeon-holed trying to fight back when I get pinned in a corner.

Luckily my USF ally was heavily assaulting the other side of the map, allowing me to slowly but surely creep back out of my base. I bought even more mortars to quickly wipe out MG occupied buildings. This prompted one of the Wehr players to deploy stormtroopers consistently against my weapons teams. I should have learned my lesson after the first couple of times he spawned them and perhaps mined the area, but I did no such thing and ended up losing a couple of mortars and had to consistently retreat them. As he was harassing with storms and my conscripts had a difficult time countering, I finally went with Terror doctrine to get shocks in an attempt to counter the stormtroopers.

This paid off OK until late-game when he finally brought out medium armor but I had no counter to them. I had a few mines laid down that helped, but my only true counter was the one Zis that I built. Even worse, I decided to build a Howizter in attempt to utilize manpower. All this did was act as another target when the Axis armor reached my base. I ended up getting a SU-85 to counter all the armor. But overall, I was still worried as I didn't know what the other Wehr player was saving up for or what doctrine they were going.

The game was kind of a slugfest from then on and I got lucky that the Axis players decided to rush my base with two panthers and a Tiger Ace. One of the panthers I took out over ice. Then one of the panthers (maybe a PIV) hit a mine with critical damage. Shortly after that happened, the Tiger Ace also hit a mine and got engine crit in front of my Zis and SU-85. After their armor was destroyed, they surrendered.

Overall, a pretty sloppy win, with lots of moments of indecision on my part of how to counter the tactics they were using. I also didn't really sync too well with my teammate.