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Have a question. TH commander gives you PMD-6M anti tank mines.
1. for how much time heavy tank stop moving if hit by this mine?
2. Doesnt it do any damage to tanks\infantry?


In general I really need unit test map. To see how mines and greanes do vs different enemy units. Considering that veted cons throw "assault grenades" further

1.) The mine deals a regular "stun" status effect, which I believe lasts for 6 seconds.

2). The light AT mine does no damage to vehicles, and can't be set off by infantry (but it acts like an s-mine field when shot).

Then axis demo has signs.

Maybe a cute little sign that says "I explode!" stuck to the cloaked goliath, so all you see as it advances is the sign.

The thing is, assault engineers are perfectly fine out of the box at CP0. The problem comes with their scalability later in the game. I like the idea of an extra man at vet two. However, I also like the idea of instead giving them access to grenades (no smoke) when they are unlocked in the barracks much better. This way, AE are less survivable than Riflemen, but make up for it by specializing as assault troops, who are not survivable enough to close frontally with enemies, but can instead deal amazing damage if they can pull off a flank.

What is the strong sov early game if they often play with only 4 cons and 2 engies for like 15-20 minutes? Not even getting a single building for some reason.

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Seeing this and more of this kind I think its not strong sovs early gameplay, it looks more of strong soviet players like Jesulin and Paul. Capable of playing with 1 fighting unit type vs 4 unit types.

From the start (or with 1CM) OKW has acces to 4 fighting units units plus mg callin from more than one commander. They are quite scaleable into mid and even late game, exept kubel.

So it looks like for those soviet players cons and engies are enough to play. And for OKW players sturms, volks, kubel, raketen, and mg are not enough. And they need flak and possibly other tech.





From the side (dont have OKW) it looks like its a tough choice of fat cats. Why they are back foot fraction if they open with 5 unit types vs 2? 5 units including 2 anti tank units\abilities and strong anti infantry at all range.

Soviets have plenty of choices early game. Conscripts, combat engineers, maxims, mortar, sniper,penals. All of these are units that can be your first unit. Anyways, I don't see anyone complaining about OKW's lack of options, OKW has a standard opening in terms of unit selection.

Also, your question about "what is the strong soviet early game if they often play with only 4 cons and 2 engies" doesn't make sense to me. Are you stating that soviets have a weak early game because they decide to only use two units? in which case I say: build different units. They have plenty of choices, use them if you don't like cons/ combat engineers.

You can't just look at amount of units available early and say that more is better, because otherwise USF is worst early game faction, and that simply is the opposite of fact.

Your arguments seem to hinge on the supposition that cons/ engies are the only choice early game, which is wrong, and the supposition that 4 con opening is weak, which is definitely wrong. Why do you think high skill players almost exclusively use the 4 con opening if it is so bad?

I would advise you to play all the factions, so that you can have a more firm grasping of their power/weaknesses, instead of only experience fighting their units.

Resource conversion abilities would be fine if they had actual counterplay. Fuel caches can be killed, luft supply can be pressured/stolen, lend lease can be shot down, soviet industry halves manpower, OKW conversion isn't 100% efficient, and relies on the OKW player actually holding enough points to make it a meaningful increase. The problem with CAS is that not only is the fuel -> muni conversion instant, it also has 100% efficiency and comes in a doctrine stacked with plane callins that cannot be shot down until after the plane shoots its payload.

CAS blobs do have a weakness in terms of vehicles, but I believe that there needs to be a bigger drawback for using fuel to muni. Ost doesn't really NEED armor because it has muni AT in the form of pgrens and a very nice ATG in the form of the pak 40.

This being said, I very much like fuel -> muni in ostruppen doc because there is no real muni sink in the doctrine itself (besides railway which is very lategame, expensive, and more of an area-denial tool). This means that even using fuel -> muni to boost your midgame makes you weak to artillery as a blob counter and opposing infantry. Both of these are fully and partially negated by CAS doctrine.