Now, I don't play a lot, so we're not talking hundreds upon hundreds of matches over the past six months, but still, I play enough to notice patterns, and this one is absurd.
Every single Soviet player I play against never brings out so much as a single AT gun, instead upgrading every single infantry unit (Conscripts? What are Conscripts?) with AT rifles.
This results in one of two outcomes:
- The Soviet player loses spectacularly because he fell into this enormous noob trap
- The Soviet player wins by combining these Universal Soldier units with tanks and various complex tactics
Neither of these situations is acceptable.
OKW players had Panzerschrecks essentially removed from their faction to prevent this very thing.
Yet now, every single match against Soviets is a match against nothing but AT rifle equipped Guards and Penals, with Penals also, for some inexplicable reason, being allowed to retain their satchel abilities when equipped with handheld AT weapons, which can, also inexplicably, penetrate literally all tiers of tanks except maybe heavies.
When are these absurd double standards going to stop?
Note: I'm not arguing FOR Universal Soldier squads. I don't think they belong in any faction, and I was happy when Panzerschrecks were removed from Volksgrenadiers.
But as mentioned above, allowing Soviets to have entire teams of universally capable squads is detrimental to literally everyone. It traps newbies into impossible situations where their infantry ends up outnumbered, and it takes away the challenge of proper army composition management from experienced players who opt in to using these units as crutches.
And frankly, it's getting boring as all hell. Match after match after match -- the same thing, requiring the same counters and the same resource considerations.
No machine guns, no AT guns, no mortars, nothing -- just spammed Universal Soldier squads.
This needs to end.