Profile of Brachiaraidos

Be thankful.

At least it's not a stuka plane pinning all your retreating troops and stopping them retreating as the flammentruck of doom comes to remind them why the Germans are bastards.

I'm so glad they fixed exactly half of that problem by nerfing the flammentruck.

Maxims shutting down entire sectors!?!??! Doesn't the MG42 have the widest arc. and instapins units? I thought the maxim has a very low aoe suppress, like it only pins one squad. It's narrow cone of fire means that a unit on the edge can just run away and flank it easily.


Soviet infantry is just crappy. it can barely support the maxim squad well. That is why you get another maxim to back it up

The thing with builds in games is that people will always (always) as a whole gravitate towards a method of maximum efficiency.

1v1 conscripts are often a necessity because maxims are too easily flanked and wiped when you're in a large map by yourself. But even then, every maxim is easily twice as useful in the early game as a conscript squad. Conscripts are terrible.

In 2v2 and up, the maps don't double in size when the players do. Tighter lanes, more rigid engagement areas, closer grouping. Conscripts are officially nothing but glorified grenade caddies. You don't need more than one to to clear a building or snare a vehicle. Maxims preform better as combat units in that scenario than any of the soviet infantry bar shocks.

If soviet core infantry wasn't arse wipingly poor with zero ability to scale into the late game, it would see a lot more love. But it is. Conscripts and Penals are crap at combat. Guards are crap at combat and now even button is crap (and still instantly lol-noped by smoke, unlike target weak point, lol @ button). The only unit worth having on foot these days is the ever popular shock troop.

Why bother getting units that will serve feck all utility? That's why soviet builds revolve around support weapons and other utility units. They actually preform on the battlefield. Maxims bleed less MP than conscripts while offering so much more battlefield presence out of the same building you can pump AT guns from- another downright necessity for any sort of soviet play.

I'd much rather have some more flexibility than build a third maxim in most of my games. But buying another conscript squad is literally pissing away manpower for nothing at a unit that will bleed more heavily than my maxim would anyway. What the feck would be the point?



And it's not like you can't do the exact same lol@infantry as the axis. A couple of MG42/34 overlapping each other shuts down all infantry forever laughably fast. The difference is that with other units offering more reliable firepower and flexibility, it would be silly to hamstring yourself with only setup teams. You leave yourself vulnerable to vehicles and artillery- just like with maxims.

But given the choice between vulnerability to vehicles and artillery, or losing the game because your core infantry is wank on a stick and your commander didn't bring any with him? Yeah, more maxims please.

Fine, then by that logic, maxims need to be nerfed to complete and total shit, firing pebbles instead of bullets, and Shocktroopers need to have -5.00 armor instead of 1.5 armor, and every sweep of their PPSh should have a chance to kill another member of the squad because he just can't handle the recoil.

I don't know if you know what 'by that logic' means, but you seem to have it confused with 'if I throw logic out the window and piss on a design sheet while baby Stalin cries'

Where the HELL did you get that garbage from?

I only heard once about the mighty vet 5 Kubels. Legends say NorthWestFresh got one in a stream once.

But this cant be true. No one ever has vet 5 Königskubels!

The legends are true. I WAS THERE.

The Kubel King was strong and mighty. He brought dakka and fire, and the Americans did tremble. In desperation, come the last hours of their fight, the cowardly yanks had a tank shoot our lord and savior down. But he will return, and our salvation will come.

Serious, that video was a joke.

Drive rear armour towards 2 M1's, two BAR and a Thimpson at point blank. Begin setting up. Force off LT squad as all the supporting fire opens up and die. Hurradurr?