Profile of Volsky

I actually have a pretty solid opinion on this one guys. Ready?

No.

I was just bowled over in a 3v3 with two good friends (and good players) when we decided to try out the Axis. My god, Cons are damn dangerous even with rifles--when facing Volks.

Giving Cons a DP would absolutely pooch screw the OKW, especially now that Obers have been reduced in effectiveness. Out of boredom I spammed six Volks squads and was horrified at how easily a pair of BAR'd rifle squads (mixed faction game) ate through them with little effort.

TL;DR,no, Cons getting non-doctrinal LMGs is a bad idea.

Doesn't the M1919 dole out the same DPS as the LMG42?

And the BAR, for that matter, is pretty much an FG42 (that you can have, at most, two of).

Other than defensive stance, the problem here is...?

vCoH is love.

vCoH is life.

Never forgive (lack of modding support in CoH2), never forget!

Research Grenades -> pop an M23 smoke grenade -> run up and pineapple nuke the occupants into submission.

Or ask really really nicely and offer up some apple pie and freedom.

I don't even really care anymore on a "competitive"/"this is important for balance" level. I'm sitting here rubbing my temples at this.

You are the exact same lot that wanted Volley Fire nerfed into the fucking ground, and you got it, and then immediately put up a thread mentioning that Volley Fire was now next to useless.

You know what, okay, let's get theoretical with this shit. Screw the Maxim. Get rid of it; give the Soviets an MG nest with a 4 man crew and an emplaced Maxim (a-la the Vickers nest for the Brits). Boom, gone, Soviet T2 can get...I don't know, a 3 man team with a DP LMG for 280 manpower, just so the Soviets get an 'MG'.

We'll bump Conscripts up to 280 Manpower and make them start off with three Mosin-Nagants, and then they can pay 60 Munitions to get their hands on three more after reaching Vet2. Since 'Ura!' is apparently a game-rending wart on this game's balance, we'll just scrap it from Cons and leave that BS for Penals. They're just supposed to be useless suicide charger infantry anyways, right (Penals, I mean)?

Okay...that leaves the ZiS. Clearly it having utility and the ability to be useful in a faction with very few useful base units is a no-no, so we'll scrap the Arty barrage on it and drop the price down to 270 Manpower, the same as the U.S. M1 57mm. Fine, the ZiS-3 can 3-shot most anything it comes across (iirc) and since I usually build a pair and rarely touch the barrage, this is fine by me. I still get to shove a 76.2mm shell up the chuff of your precious Panzer.

Snipers? Soviets can't have that; no nice things for Ivan! Scrap the second member of each team and give the Sniper the ability to cloak on the move (a-la vCoH), but prevent it from firing unless in some sort of cover (Light, Heavy, Garrison, or, God forbid, Halftrack).

Guards are clearly utter cheese and too easy to spam, so get rid of the DPs. Guards are now the de-facto HHAT-only unit in the Soviet arsenal and will make Guard-centric doctrines even more common! Now Conscripts can order a single DP for 50 Munitions if T2 has been put up and all of the HQ upgrades have been purchased.

Since I'm having a vision of more T-34 obr 1942 QQ (for the laymen among you, that's the T-34/76 with 1942 production turret and the F-34 gun--e.g., the one we have in-game), let's drop the price back to what it was a while ago (e.g., cheap) and drop the penetration of the gun as well, IF...

the SU-76M becomes a PaK on Kettenkrad treads that zips around the battlefield derping everything in it's path (e.g., a tracked ZiS-3). If memory serves, under the latest patch, it IS. Same penetration and damage as the ZiS-3. However, it's a useless mong of a unit in T4, so let's drop it into T3. What's that you say? That makes 4 units in that building?! Le gasp! Okay, drop the M5 Halftrack into T2. I'm not kidding. Scrap my suggestion of the shit 3 man DP team and just replace the now-emplacement only Maxim with the M5 HT (same idea as the SdKfz 251, right?).

Butbutbut, this leaves T4 with only 2 units! Okay, we can now drop the price on T4 in order to address the lack of a 'utilitarian' unit (the SU-76M). Now the Soviets might be able to get their hands on T3 and T4 in a good game.

Are we happy now? Or would we just like to replace everything in the Soviet arsenal with unarmed Conscripts, T-34's that break down as they're spawned in, and NKVD officers that run around the map revealing the location of every Soviet unit whilst killing any Conscripts in range and ordering attacks on the 'traitorous' base of whatever player is controlling the officer, all in one convenient off-map call in?

/rant
/rage
/anger
/why can't you guys just settle the fuck down and stop with the personal insults and blatantfanboisim
/inb4someonetriestomakethispostintomebeinganutterfanboy

EDIT: Take what you will from this post, at least parts of it are serious.

I would pay to see you lads fight the Amis in vCoH, what with their Riflemen -> ATGs -> some sort of armor -> GG builds, or heaven forbid you face SIS strat and I throw five BAR'd riflemen at you after they litter the map with mines from end to end, flank, kill, and steal all of your support weapons, and ride a Sherman up your aft end before the 15 minute mark.