Profile of MissCommissar

You clearly never played OST in higher level if you consider them as a mobile flanking army mode, even Ostheer. They are always on the backfoot, always having to react to their opponent.

USSR is NOT aimed to be a defensive army, it doesn't matter how badly worded you put it across.

I played as OST pretty much time. I can say, that they obviously are not that mobile, as USF, but in general - they have units and powers for to be good in offense. Their vechile park is obviously good for offensive playstyle, infantry is less adapted for that, but... PzGrens in right hands may be very dangerous soldiers, specially combined with artyofficier, which turns all ostheer infantry in terminators.

USSR is not aimed to be defensive, such as USF. But USF have normal HMG and more or less normal HMG position, and USSR don't. Logic? No matter what faction desgined to be - offensive or defensive - it should have both playstyles able anyway. Again - not because I want it, or something else, but because 1-side faction in game mechanic, which both CoHs have will obviously be harder to play as, than unversals.

We may look at experience of vCoH. USF was also pretty agressive faction, USSR has a lot of common with that in CoH 2, but even they had defensive bunkers and defensive designed HMGs. And one interesting thing - all USF squads were also 6-men equiped... except support weapons. Why? Because game designers were smarter those days and understood, that making +2 men to support gun won't make it more effective for it's original purpouse, but it will obviously help to combat infantry. So - they made it nice, balanced and multi-purpoused.

So - I don't think, that something will go wrong, if USSR will get at least bit of defensive gameplay.

If you want to play a defensive faction, go play British or OST, but there is no need to change an full faction to fulfill a solution to a problem that only you has created.

Yea, OK. But problem is - British and OST are BOTH defensive and offensive. USSR in meantime is only offensive, and it is definitely not best offensive faction in game. Don't you think, that it makes USSR... unbalanced?

This. By putting a Maxim in a garrison you negate its primary disadvantage of having a smaller arc and give it a better defensive purpose. (Especially when you consider that most maps have garrisons covering key points). Throw in M5 with its 360 degree fire that can face-melt squads at close range and wipe them on retreat and what more crowd control do you need? Nevermind the fact that Soviets are supposed to be an aggressive faction so heavy defensive tools don't really fit them.

PLUS Maxims higher damage AND 6 man crew means that it can easily 1v1 MG42s in or out of garrisons, which often correlates to map control in your favor by forcing off the other player's suppression platform. If you want to turtle then play Brits

Yea, but buildings are fast removable from map, USSR can't build trenches for HMGs, like UKF so - defensive options for Maxim can be closed very fast. And even putted in building - areal supression still doesn't exist. It means, that it still will be ineffective, compared with MG-42 or Vikkers, which pins everyone in large area around fireing target.

Maxims higher damage is not that really higher. I think, their DPS is equial, since Maxims rate of fire a bit lower (not sure about it, but when I use Maxim I can't say, that it deals much more damage to infantry, than MG-42 does). At least, it is not enough higher for to compensate low areal supression, DsHKs damage is fine for that, but it is killer-HMG at all. Maybe Maxim should perform just like DsHK for to be real offensive HMG...

Maxim kills MG-42 1v1. Yea, true, but it doesn't mean that Maxim is better. Again - support weapon teams don't fight 1v1, they don't fight alone, they SUPPORT to your main army troops. MG-42 may provide that support both in back and on frontline, cos it covers large area and supress in large area - better fire support. Maxim don't do it well, at least if you don't have 2 or 3 of them.

And I don't want turtle. I want balance. Balacne between factions, and even more important - balance inside faction itself. USSR may be balanced between other factions now (not sure), but definitely has no balance inside itself. And I ask for defensive AI-crowd control tools for USSR not because I want to make USSR into turtle faction, but because you just CAN'T play without such tools, it's part of CoH game mechanic - map control. Of course, USSR may be powerful in offensive, they may be powerful rushers (and even that is not true, since all of their units are weaklings), but when you capture map control - you must hold it somehow. And you can't hold map with offensive-designed units. So it means, that you will capture needed for you points (fuel, ammo, VPs) and... pretty soon lose, cos you just can't protect them. Such thing happens pretty often with USSR, adding to them defensive AI-crowd control unit/building would help them with that really.

If also they would add BS-3 heavy AT gun instead of M-42 in doctrines, that would really make soviet defensive gameplay more effective and less painful.

It would be great if you didn't just interfere in any thread that discusses Soviet units with this overly aggressive tone because you disagree with the observations.

That calls "irony" and "sarcasm", dude... Don't be so sirius and go get some sense of humor.

Allies unit performs good = time to nerf. Is that logic works in that case?

T-70 will perform good only if you mirco it constantly and do it very well, with all those pathfinding issues and other stuff. 1 mistake and it can be 2-shoted by AT/medium tank and you gonna lose 70 fuel, which is a lot. It also easy counters with mines, which both axis factions have.

That's how all light tanks in game works, actually. Nice firepower boost in medium game, with high risks of fast losing it without effective control.

In my understanding - T-70 is pretty bad unit, cos it costs a lot, but it can't be used effectively and without risks in late, so it doesn't worth investments. Better save that 70 fuel, build T4 and call something, that will not only be effective right now, but will be effective later.

Wait... there is no such units in T4... Ok, T-70 is fine then.