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It´s not always consistent, but it should do it´s job for a cheat price. Especially if you vet it early on, it can serve you very well in the lategame, as a recon/AA/ infantry harrasser unit.


But if you have fuel, I recommend you to invest in the oswind. It´s better in every aspect, compared to the 222.

Solid advice! thank you.

Do you have any recommendations or personal preferances in terms of doctrines when fighting USF, particularily the caliope/p47 commander? And should I generally rely on T3 medium Tanks and doctrinals or is it a better option to scale into T4 at some point?

Thanks for response.

My problem usually comes before the Calliope, because I am being bum-rushed by Stuarts and Shermans.

I did consider an Ostwind, but unless I've really had a good opening and manage to rush it then I usually have a bigger need for a stug or p4 to counter light and medium tanks. But I guess it might potentially work.

I think you have a good point about mines though.

What doctrine would you think would work well to counter this strategy?

I'm considering something like osttruppen, because you usually float both munis and manpower with this doctrine, so this could be used for teller mines and fuel supply drops.

Comparing scout-sniper usage to Ost and UKF sniper even pre-nerf ones.
Scouts-sniper screened with penals is a easy mode. (okay never quite got that UKF one to work for me)

Sniper just makes enemy bleed by just being with penals. It kills MGs before they can hurt anyone and forces enemy to try and bumrush it only to be obliterated by penals. Scout and Kubel counter, well those PTRS are quite good at making you think otherwise.

Only decent counter is to manage to survive to 3 tier and start capitalizing the lack of zis...

Thank GOD it has so slow reinforce time thinking that it can be reinforced from a halftrack.

I guess that makes sense, but it is not a strategy I have personally encountered when fighting Soviets.

I'm not a big sniperplayer, but I might want to test out that strategy as it sounds pretty powerful on open maps without too many buildings where doctrinal flanking units can be spawned

I realize that this post is a bit dated at this point, but I thought I'd adress it just for the hell of it.

T1 and penals are pretty much the meta in the current version, so I'd recommend going 2-3 penals and then possibly a sniper if you feel that your micro is good enough for this unit (you have to consistently be able to get 15 kills on a sniper for it to break even in cost-efficiency).

Against OKW I'd very much advice getting the scout car, as that will make you dominate the early game, vanquish any kubelwagens and rout any infantry until they either get fausts or are forced into a rakettenwerfer, which will hamper their infantry presense.

The Lend lease is a very viable strategy right now, up to the point that the call-in of shermans has actually been prolonged because it was so powerful, and the dshk is arguably the best Mg in the game right now.

I realise that when comparing to conscripts, the penals can seem like a manpower-bleed, but when you compare it to literally anything else you will se that this is not the case, especially considering the bang for the buck and the fact that they become more powerful as their models start to drop.

with 3 sturmpioner, i can't understand how you got beaten by a single kv-8.

they can put so many mines around the hot spot that any tank should not be an issue, except if you didn't have enough amo for mines because you used all of them for medik kit ?

i doubt that, but if it was the case then your problem is solved -> less medik kit, more mines.

I think I lost one of the sturmpios, but yeah that leaves me with two. I did use a lot of mines, but they have to be put down before the tank hits the field and you have to have somewhat predict where they go. Also unlike tellermines the shuemine can be triggered by infantry so it has to be the tank that triggeres it.

But you do have a point and I also think that one of my grave mistakes was taking fortifications doctrine and using s-mines, because that brought his guard up and fielded several engineers with sweepers.

Hindsight is always 20/20 i guess, but I think in the future I have to remember to be better at planning ahead for the late game and be better at predicting what comes next.