I'm not beginner, I'm just frustrated on how useless this faction is after playing it for 300hrs, and if I am the only one thinking that Volks are useless then looks like no1 really plays the game here. And ye, cons are useless, but you are not forced to make them, you go penal batalions that are 2x better than Volks, don't really know how maxim can be bad with 6man squad and have ability to actually supress, and as USF you don't need HMG when you can just spam out pathfinders and give them LMG's and outdamage living crap out of anyone that tries to fight you and I dont say Fallshims and JLI are useless, doctrines they come with are useless
Oh, okay so you're experienced, sounds to me like you got roflstomped. Again, please upload a replay.
Keeping this civil, because this is a civilized forum, i will respond to the points you've made.
Beginning with volks and penals
Russia has no other real options in terms of infantry. Conscripts are almost essentially useless or redundant this meta and will almost always get shredded by pratically every thing. Plus penals do a conscripts job, but better.
More so, you can field volks much faster than most other standard inf for allied factions, for rifleman its roughly 2 to 1 for penals, its 2 and a half volks to 1 penal (roughly). The difficulty comes when a sniper or another penal squad is fielded. And to add to that,
Moreso, ypu have other options. You've got strums which will shred in close ranges.
Addressing maxims vs hmg34s, open a cheatmode game, and compare how quickly they surpress.
You'll find maxims just dont have that kind of firepower, which is why they are rarely used, and if they are there is often two of them.
As for usf, you most certainty can not spam PFs. They're expensive(290mp),squishy and are used really to support your rifles, they bleed hard in a 1v1 situation, assuming they live. Im paying tech costs and 60MU for a bar, you better hope they deal damage. Besides, BARs are better off on a rifle squad.
From memory, you get sector assualt, leFH, JLI and free flares and those little goliath bastards, Thats a useless doctrine? Overwatch is by far one of the strongest commanders for OKW right now. If you dont have that commander, id certainly save your scrap for it.
Fallschim doctrines are situational, that is, they perform incredibly well when the right conditions are met. They're very strong infantry that can drop anywhere on the map. It is my belief that they are only really used to counter heavy infantry spam.
And one other thing, the HMG 50cal is actually a necessary more times than not, on terms of suppression they are so-so. In terms of damage against early LVs, they work well. Which is more or less the meta right now.
Look, i get it. You had a bad game, need to vent, and or rant, but please avoid doing that in the balance forums. Please check out the general chat area, unless you are offering reasonable solutions on what can be fixed or changed.
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