Profile of Volsky

Nobody wants this game to be either of those things. Some people, like me, just want this to be an authentic WW2 RTS game. Which is what Relic sold us to begin with and are now planning on turning into a fantasy RTS.

Wait until Relic releases modding support. We'll get your 'realistic' RTS up and running. Hell, I'm working on a vCoH mod that's noting the ballistics of everything from the M1911A1 to the BL-10 152mm howitzer, armor thicknesses (in actual numbers, not the Blitzkrieg mod style "dis armor bounces everything!" stats), spalling, and so on, all in anal detail. The base game was never about uber realism, this was the case even in vCoH.

I think we need to rename 2 units. Pioneers need to be renamed Combat Pioneers. Combat Engineers need to be renamed to Engineers. Seems more in line with their roles

People also keep saying you need 2x cons to beat 1x gren. This idea is fine, but why does it take 480mp to beat 240mp? If soviets need 2 units to beat 1, the units needs to be made cheaper. This also encourages "spam" which German players seem to keep complaining about. As it stands now, it feels like early game Soviets can build as many conscripts as Germans build grenadiers (due to the reduced starting mp) but Germans get T1 including in that and will apparently win because Soviets need twice as many units.

Because, like, all Soviet infantry, weapons, and tactics were inferior to German supertech and ubermensch soldaten (even if less than 50% of all Heer infantry units were considered angriff bereit (lit. "attack ready"), or combat fit, in time for Operation Barbarossa )! The Soviets needed to expend so much manpower in order to achieve tactical and strategic goals, that this needs to be represented in game as well as their losing streak all the way up to the gates of Moscow.

/sarcasm off

^There is no God (or balance).

From the few games I've played tonight (team games, mind you), I gather that Conspam/Maxim spam supported by a mass of ZiS guns and T-34s is about all you can do.

Panzergrenadiers absolutely roll everything in their path, yeah sure you can force them to retreat, but not until they've marched up to a few Cons in cover and nuked one with a derp grenade before gunning the rest down. These things eat shocks, cons, guards, anything that's on legs if it stands in front of them. Of course, PGs can equip Shrecks, so nothing has stopped EVERY player I've played tonight (6 games, a 3v3 and 5 4v4s) from building anywhere from 3 to 7 PGs and decking them out with G43s, Shrecks, and Ambush camo. Then they roll out nothing but panthers in short order, because it's pretty much impossible to dislodge them without having 9 squads of infantry on hand, arty out before your T3 is up, or the PGs fighting over kills and accidentally shooting each other.

Penals are...well, even at point blank with a flamer attached, they're not much to get excited about. They're better than Cons on paper, but because trying to close with the enemy is suicide (for the Soviets), their short range advantage really isn't all that useful. They also, still, lack any utility.

With the changes to grenades, the Gren's rifle grenade is basically an "F U" button to anything on legs--crew weapons are left with ~3 men or wiped out entirely.

Guards...well, I called them in a few times and even gave them DPs, and they managed to kill maybe two men before having to GTFO. Again, Grenadiers and PGs are able to simply march up to them and unload their weapons into the Guards' faces with minimal effort.

Guarding a sniper, or pair of them, can work, but they don't fire fast enough to cover your infantry, which quickly get the snot beaten out of them by hordes of Grenadiers and MG42s.

Quite a few players have told me that I'm just terrible etc etc, maybe that's the case (I'm sick as a dog for the third week in a row now), but when someone can charge four Grenadiers into a trio of Maxims and come out on top, something is off.

Aw man. I'll never get my hands clean after fapping to that.

Gustaaaaaaaaaaaa.