Profile of Rosbone

The AI is nothing more than a cheat machine.
1) They have increased resources as suggested. So be prepared for vehicles way before you get one even though you have both fuels.
2) They automatically counter your build. If you make unit A they will make unit B to counter.
3) Since they know where you click they will send that counter to the spot you clicked. So always click your moves at about twice the distance you really wish to go. Then the AI will put their units there instead. Or at least move many short distances.
4) The AI appear to be programmed to give you a decent fight for 30 - 40 minutes. After that they start doing stupid things. Maybe your army is too big to counter at that point?
5) If you have AI on your team they will play the opposite of your play. If you are doing good, they will play like crap. And vice versa. Again it feels as though they are trying to make your match last a certain time period.
6) In COH2 the AI will always try to block your vehicles. They are maybe trying to support you but instead they drive right behind your tanks so they get stuck and get rekt.
7) In COH1 your AI team will always mortar your stuff on purpose.
8) In COH2 the AI will never touch an open team weapon until you bring a unit up to retrieve it. Then the AI will steal it and retreat it to some retarded location on the map.
9) The countering AI makes it hard to learn sniper play because the cheaters make a vehicle and ghost your sniper when its made.
10) As stated they have NO FOG OF WAR so the little cockroaches will be sneaking around your sight objects and flanking you at all times. Thus the only good AI maps are narrow bridge maps.

You can learn from the AI play in that their units do not stay in a certain spot for more than a few seconds so they can not be mortared. They also tend to dodge grenades in higher difficulty.

The biggest gripe I have is people leaving matches in team games, oftentimes right after the match starts. I've played several matches where someone leaves and causes an avalanche of disconnects, meaning you don't get anything for the "win" and the round is over before it even gets good.

Maybe have a League-style penalty system? Where if you leave a game you have to wait twenty or so minutes to find a game next time you automatch.

The problem is in team games you can tell pretty quick if your team is horrible. So drops are necessary so you do not waste 40 minutes watching your team getting rekt.

How many times do you see people:
1. who do not rush the fuel.
2. engrs are sitting in base until MG comes out.
3. three team mates are all capping the same point at the same time.
4. only makes engrs and puts a fuel cache on the first point they capture.
5. etc
6. etc

You can tell in under 2 minutes how badly you are going to lose. And as an experiment I have dropped out of multiple games and my win rate did not change. If anything it improved. Probably as you stated other players dropped? Or perhaps the game/RNG is rigged and it rewarded the players on my team? Or perhaps I am just that bad? Either way my point is you have a better chance of climbing the ladders in a 4v4 if you do not play at all #EsportsReady.

EDIT: If anything the ladder system needs some work. I have games where I double/triple everyones kills and score but my team sucks so I drop 200 spots.

From the shoutbox today 1/27/2018:
Stormless: Episode #1 of my Masterclass Series is available to watch on YouTube - first episode is with Luvnest Here

Excellent work Stormless and TY Luvnest!

PPSH Cons and Sniper new Meta confirmed Although I think if Noggano made PGrens with shreks he would have done much better. PGrens seem to melt base Cons. But PPSH cons vs Shreck Pgrens I can not say. The PGrens could have also rushed the SU76s as well. And of course OST P4s are the worst tank in the game. Stug/Ostwind combo may have faired better. But I think we all agree with Noggano that Soviet snipers are pure cancer and he had enough of their shit by the time the P4s were coming out.

Not sure why this has no replies so I will comment to put it back on the main page for you

You should watch our lord and saviors stream: VonIvan. Since he is usually the #1 ranked soviet player. And he is cooler than a nitrogen bath. And he also popularized Lend Lease.

Judging from HelpingHans and VonIvan I would guess Guard Motor? Von is all about the T34/85 although many say it does not perform for its cost. And snipers behind Guards is very hard to counter? Cons were buffed, so open with Cons to get map control, work to Penals with sniper. Then Guards and sniper. Then it gets dicey. You may need early AT so an SU76 could be the bet, although they work best in multiples. Commanders with KV1s were also popular last patch. But I am the worst 1v1 player ever so what do I know

Is it complete heresy to suggest the maxim not be a 6 man squad and function roughly equal to the other MGs (even if it doesn't insta-suppress like the MG42). Or is 6 a divine number for Sov?

Classic sign of an RTS game. Asking any question instills fear.

Learning about this game at this stage is so infuriatingly difficult because it's gone through so many changes that you're left asking others how stuff works (and hope they know). Every time I read an argument in these forums I learn some weird hidden pseudo mechanic I didn't know was intended (I thought the teleportation thing was a visual/animation bug). I don't even know what units actually do more damage than each other since there's RNG and a host of factors that change overall DPS and reading in game descriptions is an exercise in futility.

Add RNG to this and it is very hard to get a feel for how things work without a lot of testing and reading.

Anyway, sorry for rambling. I'll just assume I'm horribly wrong and need to l2p, but if you actually care about random scrub input, then there you go.

Then again the recent "banter" in larger team games I've been in have all taught me that almost everyone in this community is a d-bag and should be thrown off a cliff. Maybe I'll just turn into a perma 1v1 player.

You are not wrong. And anyone who says you are without trying to help you is a psuedo intellectual d-bag. So just ignore them.

Everyone on this site will tell you to play 1v1. And you probably should at some point. But the less team mates you have the more abilities, stats, commanders you need to master. Do not feel any pressure to start too soon.