Profile of Katukov

Panzerfusiliers are overhyped. Volks are much better early and always have the option to launch a lava nade. I'd take cheaper volks over panzerfusies and build the mines with the difference in upgrade munitions.

Edit: Why whould you gentlemen care about scaling of your mainline when you have the absolute terminator stock in your roster ?

Edit 2: Though I agree axis factions are a little bit on the strong side.

very good take on the topic

Don't SVTs have 0.5 moving accuracy?

he's trying some "gotcha" card to show how his main faction isn't actually strong


isn't the moving accuracy of G-43s some insane number like 0.8 or 0.9, meaning that they have almost no reduced damage on the move?

Agree. Spearhead coupled with Elite Armoured is broken. Aside from that though, the faction does have some pretty glaring weaknesses that can be exploited, particularly in the mid game.

like what weakness?



their biggest weakness is badly placed tech structures that allow for allied players to destroy them and hinder the OKW player significantly. arty spam should be the go to tool for any offensive OKW hq placement

Hi guys,

Just wanted to know what strong allies strategies you guys are using?
I am the Soviet player, and have a mate who often uses USF.


Also, looking for a 3rd player that wants to play with us regularly as UKF.

Thanks.

On general: veto general mud, steppes, oka river winter, redball express (or any map you find yourself consistently losing in)

as sov: play the ISU doctrines (mechanized support) on lane maps (Rzhev winter, middle VP on across the Rhine, whiteball express, hill 400). On urban maps (Ettelbruck station, angermunde, essen steelworks, the city in lienne forest), pick up the IS-2 or KV-2 doctrines, their turret and mobility are an advantage over the elefant/ISU-152. Combined arms armies is the only soviet doctrine with an offmap + recon sweep, but each LEFH kill costs 260 munitions and gives little utility for other duties. Lend lease/industry is alright, powerful on safe fuel maps (also gives a lot of muni, allows for almost unlimited mining + ability usage). Any doctrine with radio intercept is naturally strong, ATO is situationally good but can be played without, avoid doctrines that don't give anything useful (i.e. conscript support, reserve armies, etc). Build order is essentially strat reliant: conscript -> tier 2 -> conscript, then mortar or MG, or tier 1 into penal battalions and m3a1

Important: leig 18 and mortar spam abusers are extremely frequent, any doctrine with 120mm mortars is exceptionally good at countering them, katyushas too are extremely good to take these bastards out

For UKF: cheese with AVRE, advanced weapons regiment lets you destroy LEFHs and gives you "hold the line". HDL is insanely powerful and lets you stop offensives dead in their tracks (but you must not let them capture points while it lasts). Don't bother with emplacements on most maps. on maps like ettelbruck go lend lease regiment. build path is anything: infantry sections into tier 1, recovery engineers or assault sections that you put in the UC, and then go giga aggressive. ALWAYS go hammer, anvil is objectively inferior



Strategies: Soviets will focus on artillery and/or heavy tanks, while UKF will always strive to go for comets (and Crocodile/AVRE according to doctrine options), the latter just spams abilities like HDL, the former decimates the enemy backline with katy or even ML/B-4. UKF can no longer share weapons with sov, but can still abuse the command vehicle aura's giga powerful buffs that it gives to itself.

It was not exactly like that but it sure as fuck was cool, because it made you feel like a genuine soldier general struggling to survive in a losing war (which was the original historical background of the faction).

struggling to survive the war (forcing your wehr ally to make 3 muni caches and then wait patiently for 15 minutes to win the game)