So you are saying that the counter to germans now is penals and SC? And if i am not so good at SC micro and say i use the SC and it dies, what other option are there? Please inform us, not only you but all of you that are saying that the game is balanced!
Please help the soviet fanboys so they stop whinning and crying!
Stop the irony. I really ment it when I said that now I like to play with soviets too, because there is no "easy mode" in COH2 anymore.
I am far from a soviet faction strategist, and most probably I have nothing to teach you. I'm just trying different tactics, refusing to be bound in one typical strategy, as I usually do with the germans (changing tactics every time a patch arrives).
Knowing that in COH2 as in vCOH it's very important to be as mobile as possible, logic tells us that you need fast, solid mobile units to play agressively and deny especially fuel to your enemy. That is why I use SC at first, then the M5 which can be transformed later into that efficient AA. Troops carried by these mobile units are actualy staying in green cover and shooting more efficiently. Every single german faction player I met with this tactic used mgs and mortars together with grenadiers. While I used cons as "canon fodder" - but not careless - to draw fire, I used mobile units as strike units, and most of engagements finished with german player hiting retreat button or loosing heavily. In this time window (before german player will reorganize and come back on the field, due to the fact you have mobile fast units you can go for the cutoffs and make a little mess while your other foot troops (cons, engeneers, are caping).
I can't tell you what would happen if I lose the SC or M5 too early, because this didn't happen yet. But I suppose I would just build a new one and continue the same trend untill I grab some T34s.
Again, I'm not saying this is the solution or something like this, but I observed that playing with soviets with the same tactics as before doesn't work anymore. And then, I did what I did after every patch (before 25 march)that changed the game and made germans progressively weaker: I try to find other tactics, re-think the strategy. That's all, nothing more.