Profile of Blovski

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Bundled and guard nade are very similar, with guard nade winning by. 125 seconds in throwing time.

Yup, but then, guard nades are against 4-man squads while bundlenades are against 6-man squads. And there's some weird modifier vs open cover that may or may not do anything that looks like a typo.

First video is pretty bad play.

Second one illustrates the problem better (that small arms fire doesn't do much after the molotov makes it pack up and that German players can keep a flanked MG-42 in the field too long). A general damage modifier for small arms fire against weapons teams might be a good solution. I'm not sure whether a range drop for the MGs might help (currently there's not a lot of distance between sniper range and their arcs).

Everybody knows about the MG-42 balance issue. Most German players absolutely agree that it's a problem (whereas a lot of the Soviet fans on here tend to dismiss problems by raising problems elsewhere in the balance, which is deeply unhelpful). PQ said they were looking at solutions to it in the last patch but it still had to go through the pipeline. Whether it will be fixed properly, it's almost certainly going to be changed next patch. And people can fuss about the balance of it more productively then.

As a casual/intermediate player, really nice to have the option to look up an opponent's ladder rank after a decent game. Great stuff.

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Godwin's.

The top 200 stats are pretty hard to divine anything from tbh. A lot of the accounts are people who don't play regularly right now and a lot of better players seemed to prefer Ostheer because it was generally regarded as less strong until last patch (whereas now a lot of streamers are switching to play more Soviets). If Relic had a more general set of data, I'd be interested.

Similarly, the Steam stats are not really indicative of in-game balance. In general a lot of the changes to Soviets came about partly as a result of previous tournaments where the Soviets completely dominated. Personally I think things like the scout car squad deaths on destruction change and the SU-85 cone sight change have actually made the Soviet faction more fun and engaging to play.

There's not really any truth that the German play doesn't involve a lot of micro. Armoured cars are very micro intensive, dodging molotovs is normally more micro intensive than dodging riflenades (not right now because broken sound). I agree that Germans are a easier/less stressful to play right now, if you're not above going the MG suppression bulletin and LMGs everywhere but I don't think the balance is actually massively off in general, just that the MG-42 needs a look-in, and a few things on each side are OP and UP (so, maxims a bit UP, KV-8 way OP etc. etc., LMG-gren OP, German Sniper very much UP).

A lot of your points are basically examples of extremely bad Soviet play (so, losing a clown car to 2 grens fausting is just bad play, similarly the Molotov charge on a really large building like the church just never works).

Here is one of my last three games, this keeps happening to me. Sure, i lost some conscripts; sure my T-34s could have been micro'ed better; sure, i could have T-34"ram-ed" at times, but with nerf to penetration, it's not a sure-thing; sure i could have done _____. I felt i controlled/cut-offed the map well. I felt my at position was clear on my screen and i felt i won the game at the half-way mark (cause i did). I killed just as many, if not more FULL Squads than him.

I felt that i out-played my opponent 2:1 and i still lose because T3 soviets cannot compete vs P4 & pgrens.

Also this game, i wish i had keyboard/actions fraps onto it. My At guns refused to fire and needed baby-sitting control, then if i make a miss-click, they unpack and die. Maybe you can count this loss/at stupidity (and my other 2 losses) as 'FERMA-BAD-LUCK-MVGAME'

Also, See how blitzkrieg is amazing.

Lastly, this replay is my evidence that there is no reason *NOT* to go T4 Right away and get SU-85.

Hope you enjoy this hour-long-depressing-game via the soviets point of view.
Tips are welcomed if you saw any glaring mistakes, THANKS! MVGame

OK, watched through it. Um, Engineers get blown up on their own mine, a good idea to queue up moving away from a mine after you make one (also, you lost the second squad of engis more or less as soon as it got out, so you had no mines or free repair later on). The Ostheer player has better early game fuel control and it's only really the T-70 that got you such a decisive mid-game advantage. Ram against a P-IV *always* works. You lose a couple of T-34s because you sent them off alone against P-IVs with an AT gun backing them up. T-34s really need to work together with other units if they're taking on armour. His big AT gun flank was really well judged.

Your big issue was keeping the T-34s alive. You lost two from sending them after things alone, you lost the 85s because you sent them forwards a bit far then turned around instead of reversing out, and the AT gun cover wasn't far forwards enough to discourage the P-IVs. Also, I think in the midgame your previously good infantry preservation kind of slipped - you lost a few squads. I'd question getting T-34/85s if you have Tier 3 - normally better to have 3 T34/76s for the cost.