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Again, the most used mediums in the game are call ins xd.

apart from that, soviets still have their multi purpose mines, which stop any german tank.

You can still field a pz4 before the 85s hit assuming equal/close map control.

Fielding ZiS only against medium armor will be scarier and easier to decrew&steal. Plus Zis are a major mp investment. Many players in this patch could get away with skipping soviet t2 entirely, this will no longer be the case. Unless of course you're just stomping the ost player, in which case commander choice is irrelevant.

What's to stop ost from planting tellers for the 85s? Or OKW who has literally the exact same mine as soviets...

Your argument just doesn't really hold up.

Post a replay nicely asking for some tips, send me a PM with a link to the replay and I'll give you some pointers

Welcome to the site! Glad you found it.

I can see Stug + Pz4 command tank + Ju87 from Blitz.

Or Stug + 1 Tiger + Ju87 from lightning war.

Su85 and ZiS will still shred StugGs though. Might as well go Pz4 or T4 against Su85s.

Welcome to the site man glad you found it.

Check out some of the guides that the strategists have created.

Also, look for streamers like Siberian, VonIvan, HelpingHans, Luvnest for some top level games. (Sorry if I forgot anyone, it wasn't intentional!)

Oh and Romeo casts a lot of games, he has good insight you could learn from. And he does the Star Cross Kings series, definitely worth checking out to learn what the top players do and why they do it.

Also, shameless plug for my own YouTube channel, it's in my signature

Best of luck finding some mates to play with!

What the actual fuck does he need 32 gigs of RAM but not a GPU for?

Well, I guess depending on the kind of engineer he is. They do run some pretty insane simulations.

On a serious note:

Don't get anything less than an i7. If he needs it to be super fast and doesn't need a GPU you MIGHT be able to grab a 6 core i7. But the software he's using would need to be able to use that many cores, or else you'd be wasting your money. I hope whatever he's using, at this point, could support 4 cores... but depending on how it's programmed... yeah.

If it's a work computer don't worry about an SSD in my opinion. Unless everything he does is saved on a network location. But since you guys are paying out of pocket for the computer - or so it seems - you'll want the storage space that an HDD provides. Plus SSDs are still expensive unless you get a tiny one - at which point it's not really worth it.

If he will be using some fileserver to store everything, throw in a 256 GB SSD and call it a day.

Liquid cooling all the way in my opinion. Perfectly quiet, extremely stable temperatures in my experience. But if the budget gets tight, it's easy to cut. Can be important if you're going to OC the CPU though. Not usually necessary for gaming, but it might be for whatever software he'll be running.

I think that's about all the advice I can give without knowing more about what specifically he'll be using it for. I only assume that he's doing some hardcore simulations if 32 GB of RAM is a requirement... you sure he doesn't need a good GPU?