Profile of blvckdream

The Soviet AT strafe in Airborne is really bad and needs to be replaced/fixed so the doctrine has some sort of late game scaling. Generally not impressed with the doctrine. It´s not viable compared to many other Soviet doctrines. Nothing to counter static play, no heavy tank, elite infantry call-in that is worse than Shocks and vanilla Guards, Dshk is not great, not terrible. I had a game where its AT rounds vs Luchs and they did close to zero damage. Maybe it´s bugged?

Assault Grenadiers and Panzergrens are still a bit meh IMO. Good vs Soviets but not useful vs USF and UKF. They just get melted too fast. Probably in a OK spot though considering MG42 support from T0.

Ostwind is too good now. It needs to be adjusted. It´s deadly as a Centaur but with more mobility and cheaper cost. Not just against infantry but it also melts AECs, Stuarts, T70s and SU 76 super fast.

RE rifle grenade is too good too. It´s so annoying to fight against USF infantry blob that is supported by a rear echelon sitting in a house and lobbying grenades non stop. You have to move lose cover and have no way to win the engagement. Maybe make it so it cant lob grenades from inside buildings?

OKW doctrine is in a good spot.

Both Tigers are well balanced and fun to use.

Consider adding scavenger.

Why? There is literally zero reason.

Thx blvckdream, I will try this out! But I think urban defense commander has no shock troops.
So it looks like there is no way around T1 right?

Urban defense has Shocks. It has the foward HQ, shocks, m42 at gun, booby trap and kv2. You don't have to go T1 but you should be aware that anything but the standard penal m3 with flamers build is significantly less effective.

I hve no problems aginst Ostheer though. but could someone post a helpful build order against OKW please. Is the T1 really essential or ist there any other chance.
Feels like its a devil-circle, when you go Cons because your usual advantage of capping power gets crushed, since you loose the infantry engagements. But what is the difference with Penals? They can not stand close combat with StPios right? How many Penals should I build, or better what kind of strategy would you experienced guys suggest?

PS: I usually use the shock rifle commander

With urban defense:

Combat Engineer (get flame thrower asap then put him into the M3, sweeper for other engineer squad can wait) -> Penal -> M3 -> Penal -> Shocks -> T70 -> Shocks. Add in 2 M42 at guns before or after building the T70 depending on your ressource situation. That gives you a good build to counter OKW. Then add in a few Maxims if you want to and stall for KV2. OR if you are winning hard go T4 for Su85 or Katy.

USF Mortar Halftrack

For only 25 munitions you can saturate an entire area with white phosphorus which very quickly reduces all units in the cloud to an hp of 1 .

To make matter worse you can't just run out of the way as it for some ludicrous reason has a slowing effect. It's arguably even better than late game artillery as 2 or 3 m21's will waste the entire area and even a nearby medic bunker at a cost of 150 manpower and 60 munitions isn't enough.

USF M1 Pack Howitzer


This units accuracy is a major problem its just far too high it feels like everything fired is laser guided. 1 of these will easily do as much damage as 2 mortars at much longer ranges.

The white phosphorus is indeed very annoying to play against. Should probably just get a bigger munitions cost to be honest. The slow down effect wouldn't be that big of a deal if the ability was priced different.

Pak Howi accuracy is not the problem but AOE profile is. Right now it does both constant damage and wipes like crazy. So it's OP indeed. Keep accuracy high but give it less close and mid range AOE so it becomes less deadly while keeping the far AOE the same so it constantly does damage without wiping.