Profile of BeltFedWombat

Soviet doctrine dilemma...

Which win button do I choose??

They really should just bring back the Rifle/Volks mechanic...As it was perfect.

QFT.

This, and a slight adjustment to cover values, will help bring back what Tommy has called 'The Dance' i.e. that vCoH style, early game, micro-reliant infantry skirmishing that many of us want to see in CoH2.

I am not the best CoH player ever. But, having said that, I can expect a slightly higher than 50/50 win ratio.

With that in mind, I'm wondering if it's just me or if the last patch made the Soviets slightly out of kilter. Going by the stats today, whereby 75-80% of 1 v 1 players that were matched at my level were playing Soviet, I suspect this is the case.

Here are my specific issues:

1. Hit the Dirt. Not a win button, but I think that conscripts getting this ability straight off the bat is unbalanced. I'm spending munis hand over fist rifle nading these squads as my early grens (what, with the negligible cover benefits of CoH2 as currently configured) aren't meaty enough to counter the spam. Ooorah and molotovs make flanking Mgs pretty do-able. In short, the flexibility and easy access to HtD strikes me as superior to the fairly squishy early Wehr infantry.

2. Clown cars. This is getting silly. How do I prepare for the clown car rush? The Soviet player gets to dominate the field and by the time I've spent munis on fausts and an up-gunned AC (assuming it doesn't get magic-homing At naded) they've just built another. Again, the most viable early game counter, the AC, is too squishy.

3. Shreks at 120 munis? This is getting silly. My PAKs get flanked, I don't have enough munis for shreks and the StuG has gone from being a potent mid-game AT counter to being made of tinfoil and completely useless versus infantry.

In short... any half decent Soviet player has access to flexible, cheap infantry that ensures early game dominance. Clown cars seal the deal. I know its coming but my counters are simply too expensive.

As I said, I'm not a noob. I can hold my own against a lot of players. But at the moment I'm losing six games in a row to Soviet players and 1 v 1 is dominated by them.

Would love some advice, or do others agree that there are significant balance issues?

Agree with Tommy 100 per cent.

The thing that annoys me about the Brits, from a design perspective, is the way they failed the feel of the faction. Amis and Wehr capture, *conceptually* , the archetypes of the armies in R/L WW2 (Amis: bigger, faster but less experienced / Wehr: smaller, high quality units, more seasoned). Even the PE was a clever take on the low-armour late WW2 kampfgruppe.

OTOH in CoH the British army was plodding and dependent on static defences. This is the British army that, after it broke out of Caen, motored to the German border in record time, mastered armoured recce doctrines and had a solid cadre of NCOs (and, in the 8th Army, veteran units).

As a Brit myself the most damning thing I can say about my favourite RTS is that *I hate Brits*

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