Profile of Le Wish

I have to ask if the Soviets now have some kind of propaganda-war style artillery barrage ability? Because they used it on me in one of those games and I was totally unprepared for it, had never seen it in action before.

Not new, been ingame since release. However, its been very under-used. Not that expenisive ability. Quite nifty, but AoE seems rather samll and can fail.

In general I have noticed that shock troops are extremely prolific, and the 203mm howitzer seems very popular. The heavy strafing run is not something I saw get much use prior (is this new, or is it just newly buffed?) and resulted in extremely bad losses most of the time it has been used.

Nope not buffed (atleast not recently), its just that ppl have realized its powerfull and save up for it.

every time I take a break and come back to the game the opponents have more abilities that I've never seen before.

Nothing new released since nov patch. That said, recent patch changed the CPs and suddenly soviet players changed their meta alot, making it more difficult to decide how to play as ostheer in 2v2s.

Now, I do like RNG in the game. But the changes suggested by Ginnungagap in the first post are really good. Supported!

Dont think its p2w still. Alot of the paid commanders are not better than the standard ones. I think that only 2 stand out and are more powerful, lingering on p2w (you still gotta play well) and that is soviet industry and elite troops.

I think you are a little unfair here.

it dies so fast against one mortar or two fast t34's even if you get one with a pfaust there is no way that you are going to win. whereas the sov zis with cons/at nade and they can shut down up to 3 p4's cause the damn thing has so many men and with con support reinforce.

First of all, I agree with the 4vs6 man crew diffrence being a problem in an outright comparison. That said. The T-34 is mainly an AI tank, and therefore should clear paks quite fast. A p4 is mostly an AT tank, and will by definition have more trouble. If you were to throw in an AI tank like an ostwind, taking down a zis isnt much of an issue. Even both the p4 and t34s are medium tanks, outright comparisons dont really work that way.

even mortars have a tough time with the zis. it can arty them back lol.

If you place your mortars that close to a zis, they are seriosly misplaced. Still, it takes some time for a mortar to decrew a zis i give you that. But as stated above, there are other ways of clearing them. PGrens work wonders (assgrens, various flamers etc also do well), Mortar halftrack with flame barrage as well. And I would never spearhead with a zis. Yes it can clear MG42s with barrage, but the unit itself cant handle infantry at all. Barrage is also 60 muni with cooldown and lastly its quite simple to move out of the area of impact.

Lastly, as you said yourself it is the combination of things that make units more or less powerfull. The gun itself isnt all that amazing, even though the 6 man squad makes it stay longer on field.

I wouldn't mind the m3 and Sdkfz. 222 being paper tanks if there only wasn't this horrible pathfinding and lag.

8 out of 10 times I lose them because they get stuck on a flagpole ore tree.

Very true. Pathfinding for wheeled vehicles seem to be alot poorer than tracked overall. Katyusha is possibly the worst one.