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Jump back to quoted post26 Jun 2015, 12:59 PMElSlayer

Very narrow-minded of you.

Commander is more viable than ever before because:

1) OKW base AA were nerfed, so fuel drop can be used now.
2) You can get both field reinforcements (M5 halftrack) and decent medium tank (M4C Sherman) through call-ins, so you have almost full T3 in your call-ins.
3) M17 (M5 upgraded with AA) was seriously buffed
4) M4C is better than T-34 in every aspect:
- AI (pintle MG, better gun, better reload)
- AT (better penetration, better reload)
- Survivability (better speed)

Therefore:
T1->T4:
double snipers
covered by DSHKa
into fast (because of fuel drops) SU-76 or SU-85 for early AT
into Katys for indirect
into M4C call-ins

T1->T2:
double snipers
into early AT gun for protection against light vehicles and mediums
mortars if indirect fire is needed
into M5 for AI/harassment/better field presence
into M4C call-ins

T2->T4:
cons-maxims-mortars mix
into AT guns for protection against light vehicles and mediums
into fast Katy against blobs/OKW bases
into M5 for AI/harassment/better field presence
into M4C call-ins

This allows very flexible strategy choice, which can be switched in the middle of the game.

Lend-Lease is my favourite Soviet commander so far.