Profile of ludd3emm

The problem with stronger AT guns is that they are less mobile then SU85s. Nerfing their health and not making them cheaper would make Soviet T4 useless in comparison to T3.

My suggestion to you is to play the Soviets a little so you'll see that the SU85 is not the juggernaut AT unit that destroys the German warmachine.

I'm just thinking... Since the majority of the players in CoH2 play mostly team games (3vs3 - 4vs4), do you really think that the Soviet players would stand a chance vs. the Germans if you nerfed the only half not worthless thing they have to hold off the German tank spam?

Early game is bad enough with Assgrens immediately backed up by fausting LMG grens and MG42s, not to talk about the mid game PGrens, FHT and the early P4s. If you survived that long you know what's coming and if you haven't dropped since there's a theoretical chance of you winning the game then the SU85s are your only option. If you'd nerf them then the game would be even more unplayable in larger team games. If you would compensate this by buffing the AT gun as you say, you would make the Special Rifle Command obsolete which would give the chance for the Assgrens and LMG grens to ravage even more freely on your frontline.

I really think the trick as soviets in larger games then 2v2 is constantly keep pressure on the Germans. Don't ever let them breathe. Every game I won in large team games is when we constantly put immense pressure on them. I feel like that's the key. Once you both become stagnant he bust out a panzerwerfer and it's gg. If a soviet gets arty then it's even more uncomfortable for the Germans. That's what the soviets are about anyway right? Zerg rush those Germans regardless of losses! Ooooraaaabhh!!!!

Extremely easy with randoms, especially when not everyone speaks understandable English. This basically means that if both sides are unsure about what to do and play passively/defensively, the Germans will win?

Those times I lose as Germans in team games is when I face a well drilled Soviet team that coordinates their forces to attack our weak points. When playing against Soviet randoms it's GG in our favor 95% of the time.

Voltardark: I agree with you. People seem to forget that most clans are divided between team players and 1vs1 players. When people are new to the game they seem to prefer team games since they have someone to help them out and tell them what to do in certain situations and they learn from that. Learning mean that they will get better and as they get better they usually prefer to scale down the game to 2vs2 so they won't have a loss on their account if someone in his team screws up. When they feel comfortable in testing their waters a lot of players go down to 1vs1 after that.

I rarely see new people who buy the game and insantly start playing 1vs1 only.

Myzis: You're quite right in what you're saying. Another big problem in Soviet team games is also that people have no clue in how to play Soviets. It's either Conscript spam all the way with all the expensive upgrades or Maxim/ATG spam and then forgetting to get tanks until +20 minutes. It's not rare to see Soviets building the same building as his team mates as well, like T1/T2 to T3, spamming T34s which are going to be eaten alive by the German immortal tank spam.

+1 and also very good reasons why.

I liked it in CoH1 when you could see the chat, mostly because it gives personality to a replay. Who doesn't want to see what Barton is writing? A lot of replays in CoH1 gave me a good laugh with epic comments before the end of the game.