Profile of SunAngel

Fast Tier 1 for a Sniper and Scout Car using Conscripts as meat shields/scouting units, followed up by Guards to deal with German Scout Cars.

This strat seems incredibly difficult to beat without blobbing your units, at which point you lose a lot of map control. The reduced Panzerfaust range makes kiting even easier.

Thoughts?

Sorry to Apfelsaft for making him deal with this in an automatch. He wasn't too thrilled, as this strat is insanely gimicky.

Quick game vs a triple sniper player and a fast MG player.

Met up with Sepharim in automatch. We spent awhile running around the map with multiple infantry engagements before transitioning into tanks. The early game was really fun and micro-intensive. The mortar half-track was easily my most important unit in the lategame.

It's impossible to satisfy everyone, but a decision still has to be made regarding the T-34. I feel that it fits well where it is, despite how it may have been in history.

Pripyat does demonstrate the issue, but my argument is that it isn't a good idea to balance a concept based on an outlier. The competitive community will prefer maps like Kholodny, Oka, or Moscow, all of which have plenty of ways to flank your enemy and maneuver vehicles. Side armor should be balanced based on which maps will be used the most, rather than what maps are special cases. Trying to balance side armor using a map like Pripyat will cause imbalance issues on other, currently more balanced maps.

You should be forced to sacrifice a T-34 against a Tiger either way. You can either ram the Tiger, destroying the main gun and crippling the engines so that it can't get away and can't cause damage, or watch as the Tiger destroys one of the T-34s. I think it'd be unreasonable if you were able to keep all of your T-34s alive against a Tiger, especially considering the cost difference.

Regardless, Pripyat is the only map that makes it difficult to flank a tank. All of the other maps in the closed beta allow for easy flanking.

True sight makes watching and playing games so much more fun. Not only is it hilarious to have two infantry squads on opposite sides of a building that don't know the other one is there, but on maps like Moscow or Oka, you can sneak a unit into the church without the enemy knowing you're coming.

As Toppins said, true sight doesn't affect accuracy. However, units like snipers can't shoot through a building because you have vision of the enemy from another squad. Each unit has its own independent true sight, so while having spotter units is important, it's also important to set up your units so that they can make use of the extended sight without being blocked by buildings/walls/debris.