So when should I get my mortar? After 3 MG and done with T2 research?
Hard to say, normally i would say as soon as your opponent has control of a keybuilding and you need indirect fire to push im out of there, otherwise when you got spare manpower and dont need to tech right now.
But im playing 2v2 AT and my mate is going for heavy volks so i can be the more supportive player with mgs,snipers,mortar, pak
Ps: not 100% sure on (more like 99% ) the mortar gets increased range with vet, and the vet is bond to the weapon itself, so even losing your Vetted mortar isnt that Bad because you keep the increased range when recrewing it
So I tried to reduce my MG build at early and put in some Grens and Ostruppen (not feeling brave to try A$$gren)
At first it was hard since I needed to cover more territory that 3 MGs can cover, but after some matches I could control it okay-ish.
I tried the mortar (both the HT and the T1 building, but no smoke because I didn't remember it exist) and it kill the blobs faster than I had expected (maybe because the MG pinned them? lol).
And about doctrine choosing, I guess I will stick with Spearhead/Osturppen for a while (at least before Lelic release the new patch) and try with the bot for practicing with Mechanized/Mobile Defense
im getting a mortar almost every game in 2v2 and 80% of the game it reaches vet 3. if you constantly micro it (use control group and permant attack move) its a beast
Sturmpios use weapons with completely different weapon profile, if they will get the jump on rifles, they will rip them apart, because, you know, they have assault rifle profile, which makes them potent and mid and short distances, while rifles have all-range profile, where they are still most effective at close range, but their long and mid range damage is still good, just like all rifle infantry(except cons), which means you will lose if you get enough damage on approach when you'll try to YOLO frontally.
Sniper duel argument makes as much sense as AT gun duel, just because they can fight each other, doesn't mean they are intended to, relic clearly indicated that infantry+light vehicles are supposed to be sniper counters, not other sniper, because you know, not all armies have snipers themselves. That being said, ost sniper can still use vet1 ability to one shot soviet reckon team.
As for the KT vs M10:
Why is your KT in the opponents base, because that is the only place where it won't have shreckblob support in its back?
If you're special kind of player and have lost all the infantry support and puppchens, why didn't you reversed from YOLOing M10? Why are you standing there, doing nothing while he micro'es his ass off, exploiting the intended weakness of KT, slow rotation and turret traverse? And last but not least, M10 is natural hardcounter to KT, not the other way around, you are supposed to protect KT from M10s with other units, not try to extinguish fire with gasoline.
Sooooooooooooooooooooooooo I'll flip this ball back at you:
oh ok sorry, you started with expensive tommies losing to cheaper volks 1v1 and at the end you tell me something about kingtiger has support to back him up. so why dont you apply that logic to your tommies vs volks matchup? why is your tommie not supported by a vickers? oh and of course sturms have another damage profile, thats only fair then to be more expensive but still lose in most 1v1 scenarios to cheaper riflemen
let me tell you a secret
ps: you should go out and ask some local hunter how to set up real traps without cherry picking and logical flaws
sturmpios cost 40 manpower more than riflemen, yet they only win 1v1 under very specific circumstances? how is that fair then? soviet sniper costing the same as ost sniper but in a 1v1 soviet will always win because of 2 models? why does a kingtiger lose to a m10 in a 1v1?
Let me get you in on a little secret, but promise you won't tell anyone.
so whats the deal then? grens dont stand a chance against rifles and tommies, tommies dont stand a chance against volks. both factions needs to use the glorified combined arms to win versus their specific oppenents