Profile of CombatMuffin

so you mean...... Trucks & Strafing are fine? Argh...... this is new

right now there's no reason to play 2v2 as soviet if the both of them untouched, we'll see in few month, most dev balancer don't play 2v2 I guess

Trucks are not necessarily right, but they don't become insanely overpowered unless YOU allow them to trickle the resources. Its not always easy to penetrate the lines, but it is worse in 2v2 because the resources are shared by both players, and if both use the trucks, share the expenses. The maximum fuel income I have ever gotten from a 2v2 game with trucks has been in the mid 50's. I had fuel OP's, trucks AND both High Fuels in the map. By then it was already over.

Rad again what I said about strafe: nobody said anything about it being right, or balanced. Although strafe is nuts right now, it doesn't always arrive in play. OTOH, you will almost ALWAYS see either maxims or scout cars in a soviet game.

Anything that circles an area is perfectly fine with a circle. Directional attacks do need an aiming rectangle.

As far as plane speed being slower: that's fine. I really liked a game where my enemy bought an AA solution to bring down my recon runs, it was a way to deny me that call in. I would, however, check into the range of such AA units.

The Opel Truck is only heavily imbalanced in 2v2's, and only gives a true advantage in a long term, both in 1v1 or 2v2.

I don't play Assault doctrine a lot, tbh, but if you check when the average time for Opel trucks to arrive is, you can start to assume he'll put it in the closest territories to his base that are largest (safe for hiding), also territories that already have OP's could be viable. For every single Opel truck you kill, it is as though you had kill a Pioneer squad, and it is A LOT more vulnerable than pios.

Strafing run does need to be nerfed, but it doesn't really affect the metagame as much as say, German mine inferiority, T34 weakness, Scout cars, etc, which are non doctrinal.

No, because the numbers aren't even shown to anyone ingame so it's not like common sense enters into it. All the stats are behind the scenes so they can be as complicated as they need to be.

Exactly. It is a little counterintuitive that a player needs to know how good his chances are to penetrate only by experience, but it is a good formula nevertheless.

I really wish there was some sort of simple feedback to know your chances since a single patch can really change things around, and its a whole new digging operation into CoH-stats and memorization instead of simple feedback (I hate to reference MoW here, but it has a somewhat good system, even a color based one would be decent: red, yellow, green).

I play mostly 2v2's, and a lot more Ostheer because I like their playstyle. Far from excellent at this, but here's how I "read" my opponents in 2v2, it may help you udnerstand how your Ostheer opponent will react to you.

Early Game
There's basically three basic soviet strategies, with a couple of variations between them right now (each player will choose one of these, or go heavy on the same):

1)Conscript heavy
2)Scout Cars
3)Maxim Rush

If as Ostheer you DONT see conscripts early on, then you are almost guaranteed the other two. Most likely scout cars, so as a Soviet, expect an Sdkfz 222 from germans, so the player supporting scout cars needs AT nades pronto.

If you went Maxim, then you can 100% expect them to come with flamer HT. Guards and T2 Zis can help put it out of its misery, but HIDE that ZiS so the germans get careless with the Flamer HT.

Mid Game
Basically, in order to stay competitive in 2v2, the germans need both PGrens and PIV's, so expect those will come in good numbers. Here's why:

PGrens with shreks are the only viable counter to SU-85 in 2v2, I feel. A PIV needs to go around it, and a well micro'ed SU-85 will not be facing this situation, especially on such big maps where soviets swarm.PIV's, on the other hand, FORCE the soviets to go T4, because frankly, T34's will lose the war eventually.

An SU-85 bring fear to any PIV user, even in pairs if supported with AT nades or even a ZiS. The solution to PGrens? Shock troops win almost every time, and if the KV-8 rolls in, the maintenance for Ostheer players have to pay to reinforce PGrens pay back for it fast. Either you or your teammate NEEDS shock troops on the field, one way or another to prevent PGrens from rolling you.

Late Game
Late game is almost a dice roll, if it hasnt been decided by now. if you guys have an ISU-152, one to one, it will beat their heavy tanks and infantry. if they have managed to lock themselves down though, you simply won't steamroll the germans as easy because they have more armored versatility.

Heres the most important part:

FORGET fuel in the early game. Try to secure it, its important, but the priority should be munitions. Without munitions, they cant bring their Flamer halftracks, their shreks, their fausts, and that gives you the advantage in the early war, which helps you secure fuel and obviously the game.

A lot of this stuff sounds basic, and it is. I am by no means a good soviet player, but even when I do play, I keep the things I do as Ostheer in mind, to counter them. It usually works okay. The advantage soviets have in 2v2 is that you can choose two points in the map, and deny them early on. There's very little chances the german player has to win those early engagements.