Profile of Nosliw

Thank you for your reply and the link. I honestly didn't know, there are different start-ressources...

Concerning the damage of the 222: Although it might not do as much damage as the Luchs with its 20mm, it still feels pretty hard on my penals. And although I must agree on the damage it takes from small arms fire, it takes some time before it would be destroyed by that. So the only valid options there are mines, lucky sticky satchels (if you're against a decent player, that almost never happends) and... the Zis. Which brings me back to that feeling, beeing forced into T2.

You are by NO means forced to play T2. If you're trying to reach the T70 light tank, there are two routes:

T1 - T3
T2 - T3 - playing with cons or maxims, with access to ZIS AT-Gun and conscript AT nades so 222 is no problem

As for playing T1 opening, there are too MANY options to deal with the 222:

• DSHK machine gun (has AP rounds)
  
• Penal squad PTRS rifle
  
• Guards with PTRS rifle
  
• Tech to T2 to get ZIS
  
• Get 1-2 cons and get AT nades
  
• Go a doctrine with Partisan Tank Hunters
  
• Lay lots of mines to deter aggressive 222 play
  
• Make good use of houses and heavy cover to stall the 222 (especially with your PTRS squads)
  
  

T70 is better than 222 so of course it comes later. But thinking you are "forced" to go T2, or that you HAVE to play T1 is where you're wrong. Soviets have so many options and I think you should explore them.

Good thing that I wrote the same ~1 hour earlier...

Didn't read your mathematical wall of text brah I just spit my own knowledge in a short sentence or two. Don't hate

In my experience, I would say an allied team of 2 might get 1 light vehicle between the two players, while the other player rushes towards a more potent medium tank like the T34, Cromwell, or Sherman. The allied light vehicles, in my opinion, are more for deterring aggressive axis play: forcing squads that are capturing to retreat (with T70 or Stuart), or for deterring aggressive Luchs / Flammenwerfer dive attacks (by using SU-76 or AEC for example). Apart from this, allied vehicles feel too weak nowadays to be rushing in, flanking AT guns, diving retreating squads, etc.

Please give modders more power to make some REAL mods. That way even after CoH2 support dies as it inevitably will, people can keep the game fresh by modding new and exciting content.

Also, does anyone know what all the state_machine_names are? I figured out that they are the spinning logo above units heads (duh), and that you have to manually type in the name, so I have only been able to know about the ones I've found. After watching one of eliwoods videos, I found you can see a list of them all in the World Builder when you go into NIS mode. Is there a way to preview them all, or is it just trial and error?