Profile of Corp.Shephard

The "Molotovs are easy to dodge" sentiment is a pile of crap.

Not only does the squad bug out due to a member spontaeously combusting, but it doesnt react either for an immediate dodge. Micro requires a 2-3s reaction BEFORE thr Molotov isthrown to not suffer the immediate hit with its fking criticals on Ostheer.

You're sort of correct in that it does require ~2 seconds to clear a grenade most of the time. That's why the Molotov is the easiest to dodge: it has the longest and most obvious animation windup of them all. It detonates on contact so you have to be moving before the grenade is thrown. I find that unless my attention is split in too many directions Molotovs are easy to spot and thus dodge.

Other grenades don't have obvious animations but have a timer before they explode so you get a slight tradeoff.

All in all though, I sort of agree with the original post that infantry responsiveness sucks. Is it worse than the original CoH? I dunno, but it ain't better!

It was a shocking game for me to re-watch particularly from your perspective. I couldn't believe I won watching at certain points.

I felt the map hurt me as it's one that's very hard to maintain much map control with using that Tier 2 strategy. It's also one with very difficult cutoffs requiring four different points to cut off the enemy. A Tier 2 force can only really exploit it's power with those cut offs and it was really hard to hold that against you. Don't see many pure conscript spams either though. I wracked my brain for a while after this game wondering if I could have made that early game less stressful and less chaotic. Didn't really come to an answer other than "Maybe don't do that strategy on that map..."

Soviet T3 is completely underwhelming these days. Aside from that T-70 it certainly didn't seem worth it. GG!

Flamethrower halftrack is key against Maxim. You can get one up at like ~5 minutes into the game. There's no way for Soviets to counter that aside from mines. Stay off of roads.

I added a section in the original post about tactics versus Maxims. It's not something I've encountered a whole lot. When I have fought it I've crushed it with these tactics.

The power of Maxims is that they secure great territory and win fights with only a couple of them. When you get that Flamerhalftrack out you will remove his ability to move out without an AT gun or Guards. You'll get map control soon enough.

I have been able to flank Maxims before. Realistically he doesn't move around with all four in some sort of little blob. He uses them to try and capture because he spent his first ~1-2 minutes building in his base. That means he spreads them out some.

The hardest fight I had against this strategy I got my Flamthrower halftrack up really quickly. I fought a couple engagements and pushed him back, taking majority map control. He got an AT gun and hurt my halftrack. I pulled back and started repairing and losing some ground. I got a second flamethrower halftrack and threw both of them at him from different directions combined with an infantry push. He fell to pieces and I stole his AT gun. Shortly after I got an Ostwind out and I think I had a battle with a T-34 that I turned around using the Ostwind + AT gun. Maybe some schreks?

It's very possible.

An upgunned scout car versus T-70 is not a great fight for the scout car unless you've got like Vet 2-3 or incredible rear armor shots.

The best way to deal with it is Panzerschreks. Grab a Pak40 maybe. It will almost certainly come hunting for your Flamethrower Halftrack so you could trap it with a Teller mine.

Really though, how'd he get one at six minutes? Once your Panzer Grens come out make sure you hit those cutoffs and fuel points hard. He really shouldn't get those kind of supplies.

There's some really odd things about Hit the Dirt that bug me too.

Is the the same armor type as buildings? Sometimes it feels like it.

I started to suspect this when I realized that Conscripts who HTD in a blizzard increase their sight range by like 2-3 times their normal Blizzard sight range.

Just like as if they were in a building.

If they could fix HTD and building armor in one go that'd be great.