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Jump back to quoted post9 Mar 2016, 15:20 PMGrumpy

Spam them back.

Jump back to quoted post5 Mar 2016, 09:23 AMMissCommissar

You don't understand what im talking about. Ok, MG can be also AT gun, no problems, but... what for!? Wehr has not AT weapons in early game? They have a lot, with best infantry AT - panzerschreck! What for they need AP for MG? It is just too much.

I think not MG-42, but Maxim needs AP flame rounds, because USSR is poor in AT options. No infantry AT guns, no effective AT light vechicles in start (T-70 is T3 which is middle game).

I just can't understand, how they can give 1 more AT option for wehr, which has a lot already, when USSR living almost without AT at all!? Thats obviously unfair!

Jump back to quoted post4 Mar 2016, 11:28 AMSuperJew

My build order as of late has been HMG, Gren, Mortar, Mortar, Gren. When I get to t2 I need to evaluate am I going to need AT because I'm at a fuel disadvantage, or need AI because I'm at a fuel advantage or they're doing a heavy infantry/support weapon build.

One thing you need to make sure you're doing when you play Ost, is hold 1 fuel, 1 muni, a few regular points on the map, and at least 1 vic point in the early game, otherwise it's difficult to win the round. But just try to maintain control over your 1/2 to 40% of the map early on more than making pushes on his side of the map, you can use your pio to harass points though.

MG spam can be tough to deal with.

So basically I try to lock down one side of the map with my opening MG, Gren, bring up the pair of mortars, and the last gren, bind both squads of grens and mortars to their own keys, and bind the HMG to it's own key.

And basically I just drop mortar rounds on my opponent until I'm ready to make an offensive push.

When I'm about to make an offensive push on his blob and has 2 or more mg's, you need to get your mortars in position, drop some smoke rounds so he can't see, and then you might consider A. Upgrading the pioneer to a flame pio (this can be risky because if he's setting demo charges and mines everywhere this can cost you a lot even the whole round) or B. Getting a flame halftrack.

If you're going to use the flame halftrack your micro needs to be top notch, and always have a finger near the "U" key for reverse and to micro it away from soft counters like conscripts with AT nades and hard counters like AT Guns, it is paramount you keep weapons like your flame halftrack alive when dealing with MG Spam.

After smoking the area, I have the HMG in the rear in case of any rushes towards my mortars, I get my 2 gren squads in 2 different sides of the flanks and in cover of his mg, and bring up the flame weapon on another flank. In the mean time the mortars need to be firing rounds on the mg's right after it's dropped it's last smoke round.

For a Soviet T2 start, you need to keep in mind, your hard counters to a HMG spam strat is your mortars and a flame halftrack. In turn, their hard counters and soft counters for these weapons are their AT guns, mortars, and conscripts. I really prefer 2 mortars instead of 1 mortar, it just seems to get the job done a lot faster than 1 mortar, and double the smoke rounds can block the sight on a large area of the map for a longer period of time and a lot better than a single mortar.