Profile of Kozokus

Not that much of an investment :/ The good point is that you dont have to wait for an hour the repop of a new truck if one of yours was destroyed.

there are some things i like about it and some i don't...

The kubelwagon losing it's suprression abilities doesn't sit well with me for one... Now the OKW don't have much supression to fight blobs other than the Le.ig and flack-track (unless you choose the right doctrine)

I have been thinking about that too. Still, remember that the ressource cut is removed, that mean much more fuel aviable = a much more interestin FlakHT.
But there is still unknown numbers. As i read the patch the building truck is not an automatic free unit anymore as it is build in the T0. So how much does it cost? how much does it add to the tech tree?
The new munition income makes me think that OKW will not be as decision-based as before on that point. Before you had to choose between combat packages, offmap strikes and grenades. Now things may look like Soviet where you can offer everything provided you dont waist.


+1 on the DOW2 Rippers XD

I would take kubelwagen over UC every time. I'm ok with it dying to one faust and small arms. All light vehicles do. But it just doesnt deal enough damage so it is worth to buy it instead of IS os sappers. It just doesnt. And UKF is also a faction that has problems with capping early on due to expensive squads. Buying UC delays your capping even more and should be rewarded in some way.

I think you are right, the UC hamper your early game capping and doesnt add much until you buy an upgrade.

If you compare every "forward HQ" from each faction, the main point of comparison is that they are all "weak spots" beeing fragile (ambu/HT/UKFbase) or hard to replace (OKW truck). I mean that they cannot defends by themselfs. Having a mobile reinforcement point, capable of shredding/pinning squads seems wrong on the paper. The nerf was deserved.

Hello,

Penals do not fullfill the exact same role than conscripts. If you makes them fight, (which is very unlikely to happen) you will notice that the outcome of the battle depends of the distance that separate them. At long-maximum range, conscripts wins, at short range penals kills them all.
You will notice also that as a soviet, you will tend to loose any fair fight (1:1) you enter in. The point is to never give a fair fight and to strictly outnumber your opponent anytime.
As you pointed, we both have the same manpower but you will rarely find a german player willing to pay for more than 4 grenadier squads. However, a soviet player can very confortably go to 6-7 conscripts squads. Remember that until the 1st medium tank pop, conscripts squads can andle pretty much anything provided you have enough squads. A MG42 pinning 2 squads? you have 3 more for a nice hoora + molotov flanking. A 222? At grenade him to death. an AI halftrack? it can only target a single squad at a time.
The build order that gave you I4HTI is honest and i would go further with removing the medic and adding another conscript squad.

Kozo.