Profile of Strummingbird

I swear if he one more time says that its "only 240MP", deliberately omitting the Muni cost, Ill kill a kitten.

Interestingly, the cost adjustments of Shocks allow for rudimentary mp to muni ratios. The Shock PPSH upgrade was 60 munitions, and was dropped for a 80 manpower (used to be 120) increase in cost.

Hence if every 1 mp is worth 1.33 munitions, Grenadiers with LMGs are worth ~320MP. Naturally this isn't entirely accurate- munitions have different value to different factions at different stages of the game.

Imo, its Penals that should fill that "diversity".

Well, why not give players the choice by allowing both? T1+Penals+flamethrowers or conscripts with PPSHs- diversity is always good unless it messes up balance.

As I pointed out earlier, LMGs are the only "perk" Grens have vs Cons, in the absence of native Merge and Oorah. Without LMGs, Grens are, "worse" than Cons, in terms of that diversity you specifically raising as a basis for change.

Think about it this way- Volks were directly inferior to Riflemen in just about all situations, but wehr T1 wasn't underpowered vs rifle play because of the support it offered to the Volks in the MG/Sniper/Bike. I'm not saying that Grenadiers should be directly inferior to the Conscript because Ostheer T1 offers other units while Soviets have to wait till later in the game for crewed weapons - but just because the Conscript would be inherently better than the Grenadier if the PPSH was an option doesn't mean an automatic imbalance, as long as overall faction balance remains.

I tried this on the south side- didn't work.

What I think happened- he nearly capped one of the points, then shifted over to the other point with some of men in the squad, which starts capping the other point. In the meantime the initial point ticks down to neutral, and when the initial point is half ticked down and the second point is half captured he took a screenshot.

If your opponent catches you planting a mine, rifle grenades from behind hedges tend to be a quick way of disposing of the mine and the engineer. I've killed a couple engineer squads that way. In a blizzard the nade is pretty hard to spot- perhaps that was the cause?

One of the unique features of the Schwimmwagen/Sniper-Sniper-Sniper-Sniper-Sniper strategy mastered by BartonPL was the early tank-traps dotted around chokepoints to keep away the Jeep, while draining manpower at no cost. In Coh2 though, the tank-trap itself isn't present- or is it?

As far as I know, the ghost-sandbag bug allows Conscripts to spam large numbers of invincible roadblocks, impassable to light vehicles. Snipers are significantly more expensive, admittedly, and garrisoned buildings provide more protection, and the zis comes from an inconvenient tier, and the early game feels more compressed compared to COH1, but the germans can't countersnipe without the vet 1 ability, soviet snipers can sprint ad infinitum and guards/AT nades could make up for the lack of an easily accessible AT gun.

I'd imagine a build inspired by the original sniper spam to be- engineer, a conscript or two to start building incomplete sandbags along the roads (say, on the semois streets), T1, then snipers from there on. Throw in molotovs and guards where necessary, then SU85s for the late-game AT.

Naturally my own sniper micro is far too poor to attempt anything of the sort, but perhaps someone more skilled than I could make it work?

Note- I don't support the use of bugs- this is just a non-serious idea I had.

I lost a match to this very same player with a KV-8 rush. Naturally I should have anticipated it, seeing Shocks, but I didn't.

In this replay, he didn't change up strategies, and I was ready (no more waiting for T4 this time) with a StuG and stun-round Paks. Long story short, watch out if your opponent has Shocks- if you aren't ready for the KV8 it's a game-ender like nothing else out there.