Profile of BigHustles

Hello All,

I am roughly level 6-7 ranked with all factions but I'm having a hell of a time getting any traction with soviets. I am mostly clueless at the start of the match. I've purchased the good commanders, ie. Guard motor, partisan, etc., but knowing how to build an early force dependent on map/opponent/commander is proving incredibly difficult. This opening diversity is what attracts me to soviets as I love the early game complexity whereas the other factions seem quite straight forward for the openings, but I digress.

Few problems/examples to explain where I struggle:
-Constant mp bleed when going penals and constantly pushed off the map, preventing any real sense of capping or map control.
-When I try 2-3 maxims with guard motor... its just never effective. Maybe I need to be more patient, but its so passive, and if I just set up my maxims, I cant earn cp's for the guards. I don't know how to set up an offense this way.
-I can never protect a fuel point early on. Im constantly pushed off by okw blobs>racketen>flak rubbish, or ostheer fast mg covering a fuel point.
-Conscripts feel incredibly useless to me, to the point where I just don't use them anymore. so I typically choose to open with a few penals, or a few maxims, which leads to the issues above.
-I have no AT, like ever, unless I go maxims... so theres this constant feeling off an army thats AI strong, or a force that "can somewhat deal with vehicles *curses 222/luchs/no early vehicle p4 rush"
-Having to build two buildings before I can make a t70... feels like its an utter eternity before I can make this thing.
-How to approach any given map
-Which commanders should I choose? There's like a million of them.


I understand general game concepts and have what I believe is a decent understanding of unit strengths and weaknesses, but I'm literally just going into matchmaking, trying various openings to see if any of them stick.

Please help. I love this game. Its my favorite RTS pretty much ever.

That did. I also turned of the sticky grouping thing, which seems to have taken care of it. Thanks.

ah okay. Cookiez was the one that xfered the thread over here, and since people were already chatting about it, i figured id just keep it going.

I suck against campy okw

tank mobs and base destruction to victory