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Hello there,
I've struggling as OKW on how to deal with soviets adaptability during the transition from early to mid game.

They always start
CE - 5 Cons or
2 CE - 3 Penals - Guards

Then T70.

There's a Clown car here and there, but let's put it aside.

When I see Cons, I field 5 Volks and go Luchs and maybe a Rak if I scout their tech building.
When I see Penals, I go 3 to 4 Volks, MG and Luchs. Sometimes I try to double Sturmpios. They work wonders.

Then, regardless, I play pretending I'm Mobile Defense Ostheer and field a Puma by the time the soviet deploys his T70.

Thing is: I don't field my Puma, I'm eaten alive.
If I field my Puma, I've seen 5 times in a row the soviet ignoring their Light, locking the T34/85 commander and rush for it. I get map control between this and the tank deployment.

Then the SpecOps CommandPanther takes too much fuel, I struggle to much MP to field more Raks or I need to tech T4 and then I'm behind (besides the terrible default TD and Panther). By the time I field a good-enough force to fight, there's already a second T34/85 on my doorstep. Sometimes a SU85 even.

What can I change? More raks earlier seen a bit waste of MP since I'm dealing with penals and upgraded guards, but then, who am I.

Hello there

The penals op is pretty popular right now
- 1 combat engineer into t1 then 3 penals , so you get 5 infantry.

Its weakness is the slow start and low capping power, the combat engineer is to mitigate that slow pacing, from what I understand.

I was testing a few things and I did actually saw someone using it
- the starter engineer builds t1
- you build a conscript meanwhile

Then you try to lockdown a chokepoint with both units to wait until your first penal so you get things going from there. From there I can get AT nades or even double conscript to hold light armor, skipping T2 and -maybe- T3. You'd be at 1 engineer 2 cons 3 penals. Lend Lease, Counter Tactics and the T34/85 commander worked well here. I wasn't able to get an IS-2 out of it tho.

I've had a P4 rush into this build on Crossroads, I was able to flank the P4 and send it back to repairs with 2 conscript rushing AT nades on it and a fake satchel (the jukes). I could back tech and get a SU76 just as fine.

your opinions on this one? I'm just trying things. The conscripts late game have so much utility that I think soviets shouldn't skip at least one.

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Will look at it and give some tips.

Thanks man, I really appreciate it.

@skyshark

thanks for the input, I didn't know most of the things, it'll come in handy, thanks again