Profile of Bulgakov

It is just as retarded as Strum pioneer or PG taking a/multiple panzershreck out from their pocket suddenly on the field. When is this QOL feature registered as axis's patent and Soviet is not allowed to enjoy it?

Conclusion:Axis is fucking braindead since release.

Sturms are not spammable due to their expense and their faction's light tank cannot fight evenly with any other factions light tank.

Panzergrenadiers have to be teched to and their faction has no light tank.


Do you remember all the allied complaints about Shreks on Volks? So OKW lost their handheld AT on mainline infantry. Now all allied factions can have double handheld AT on their mainline infantry.

Thats what's braindead.

you do realize they cost almost 100 muni?

Munitions aren't a huge issue for soviets.

In any case, it's 100 muni for an ability with an excellent chance to insta wipe a full vet squad.

Minesweepers are the obvious counter but it means you can't get a shrek as OKW or you have to go double Sturms. It also means you can't send single squads capping or blob up to counter the enemy guards/cons blob unless you have a sweeper unit.

The impact of demos is more than just the occasional wipe. Just the possibility that there is a demo shuts down harrassing with single units.


And have you ever heard any caster shout "Wow, yeah, what an excellent use of demo, much skill, wow!"

Demos are bad.

Anyone remembers the vCoH fallschirmjaegers?
- Kar98k at start which can be upgraded to FG42
- a grenade which was meant to clear out buildings only

It was the dream

Yeah and they were more lethal then coh2 Falls. They were fckn scary, I loved em) Not so prone to being one-shot either.

In terms of Soviet tank doctrine, the KV-1 has nothing to do with either the T-34 or the IS-series (that claim is similar abstruse as claiming that the Sturmgewehr was conceptionally some sort of predecessor to the AK-series). Sure, the armament was similar to the T-34 for most of the time of its existence, but being heavily armoured meant a completely different usage profile. Meanwhile, the IS-series was used as a more modern form of the old assault gun. With a tank of that capability, the necessity to mount heavy guns to awkward or casemated chassis was gone - the IS-series could mount guns that served the same purpose, while also being able to withstand more firepower, while also being more mobile. The trade-off to medium tanks were cost, technical complexity, and mobility, which is why the concept was made superfluous by the idea of the Main Battle Tank.

Back to topic: This idea is impossible to properly balance. The Panzer IV series in this game is already constantly on the backfoot, even against what the Allies can currently field. Sure, the OKW Panzer IV is notably better off than its Ostheer equivalent, but that doesn't help it much in the face of massive cost differences compared to performance differences.
The T-34/85 as the Soviet standard tank has been discussed regularly in multiple forums over the past couple years, and in the end the result was mostly the same: It would be impossible to balance against the then useless T-34/76 - regardless of whether the T-34/76 would then end up in those very same doctrines that now contain the T-34/85. The availability of that choice would be meaningless, because the game's demands would always favour the T-34/85, thus actually limiting strategical diversity.
Then there's also the problem (especially with the US) of how to balance these upgrades into the asymmetrical gameplay: Riflemen are massively superior to all other standard infantry, and that has a very specific reason. Suddenly overturning that reason would require a significant reconsideration of how USF early game works, and suddenly we have another Osther/OKW faction - I don't think anyone would like that.

The Panzer IV series in this game is already constantly on the backfoot, even against what the Allies can currently field. Sure, the OKW Panzer IV is notably better off than its Ostheer equivalent, but that doesn't help it much in the face of massive cost differences compared to performance differences.



This. Axis don't get a power spike when they field their first medium tanks, which really they should do after having to be on the backfoot vs allied light tanks (every allied faction has a light tank that hurts infantry and other vehicles. Axis do not)

Instead, when it arrives, it instantly has to deal with the Cromwell and Sherman. The Soviets seem more balanced in this but the SU76 can stop the PIV from pushing into territory to take back ground lost because of the T70.


In 2v2 it always feels like wave after wave of allied power spikes with no power spike from the Germans. When the Axis do get their great tanks, the field is already full of mediums that can deal with them because of their numbers. (and don't forget the resource gap that's a result of Allied early-game dominance)

To all the people saying that CoH2 is not vCoH and to stop living in the past, it might not be the same game but the fundamentals are the same, budwise and the other older players are not here to start a vCoH vs CoH2 war. We are here to help CoH2 be a better game and if vCoH got many things right and if we can use what we learned from playing and watching vCoH change to make CoH2 more fun to play then we will do that. It's not about living in the past, it's about using what we learned from the past. Every tier doesn't in fact need AT, otherwise you get an end result of shallow teching, if you dont need to worry where you are getting your AT from because every tier has it then what's the point. Every tier should have a pro and con, every tier should be worth getting in certain situation, you don't want a tier to be always worth getting regardless of the situation because it's so strong in itself. Now obviously this isn't a golden rule because there are factions that function differently. What many are overlooking here is that the factions are fundamentally flawed themselves, so balancing is difficult. I appreciate what the modders are doing here to try and help the game but I still think that they are doing so by applying bandages instead of fixing the real problems and in that process they are destroying a bit of what CoH was about, I know some of them come from other RTS and that may influence their way of balancing.

Fact is that you have a tier that is good all around, which is the soviet T1, it has a good frontline infantry, the sniper and the M3A1, obviously this tier has no AT but has a lot of good AI and that is the strength of it, the problem is that due to the axis faction design and even more about the fact that the M3A1 can have infantry inside it goes around one of the mechanics of the CoH franchise which is about flanking MG's, you can just pop a full 6 men squad behind the MG (I cant even imagine how broken it would be in vCoH if I could pop a rifle behind the MG with the jeep), it goes even further than that since penals could have flamethrowers, I think the M3A1 here is a problem and the ostheer T1 especially the grenadier is another.

So good to see a top player saying this. The m3a1 really wrecks the early game. Ostheer can't depend on its MG (even in a garrison when flamers come) and Volks don't have a faust til t1. It forces muni drain and defensive clumping from Ostheer and an early AT unit and clumping from OKW when what they need is anti-inf to combat the strong infantry of the soviet T1.

The fact that it also stops you from harassing deep in enemy territory is also a serious problem. While soviets can send their cheap units anywhere on the map, the axis risk an early game squad wipe if they do and so must keep all their units together and lose map control.


Also - VCoH had so many nice features and mechanics that would benefit CoH2 and wouldn't be that difficult to incorporate into the game. It's not about nostalgia, it's about wishing those great features were included in this game.

"Every tier should have a pro and con, every tier should be worth getting in certain situation"
That was great in VCoH. You could try an unusual build but your opponent could react to it, so a player wasn't able to have a beat-all cookie-cutter strat. This created dozens of different possibilities and fun options. Those options do not exist in CoH2 because you know if you don't automatically build the counters to one of the two soviet strategies (Maximspam + Sniper to Guards) you're going to be fighting a horrendous uphill struggle.