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A lot of soviet hate in this thread. =/

CoZaK you bring up some good points and as you say with out htd and pssh conscripts are a waste of resources especially in the late game unless you just need units for capping.

I do agree that conscripts and grens aren't balanced for a reason; grens already have more versatility while conscripts should feel like clearly the more cost effective unit. Conscripts squads might have more men but squad wise there's no reason for a german player to have less squads than the soviet. Tech wise the Soviets only have 2 "tiers" and while it might seem like they're less forced to plop down every tech building in the game the Germans don't have to either. One could even argue that the Soviets are required to get molotovs and anti tank grenades to stay competitive which are the equivalent to German teching.

I'm probably just theory crafting because we all know things work out differently in the actual game but it costs the soviets (molotovs and at grenades included) 1240manpower/320fuel vs 1120manpower/190fuel for the Germans to get all 4 of their tech buildings out so the Soviets are clearly not intended to build all of their tech buildings just two of them, and substitute their lack of versatility due to the lack of units with their commander abilities. I'm posting this last part not to change the subject but to keep in mind that both Grenadiers and Conscripts should fit into the bigger picture and complement both armies and not just the initial 1v1s. Sure a Soviet might be boosting his Conscripts usefulness with the HTD commanders, but he's sacrificing the versatility of the rest of his army by not having the ability to call some of the unit call ins the Soviets have over their German counterparts.

I heard there's a shipment of new players coming in on Tuesday. Seriously though for a game to grow it needs a good community on top of fun and addicting game play, I think coh2 has some of both. Currently though the game can be frustrating as only about a fraction of the units are worth using and aside from the forums there's very little community interaction in the game besides actually being in game with players. Coh 2 definitely still feels like work in progress, not much has changed since beta.

Yeah, besides pinning all his infantry for the last 15 mins of the game and killing a couple guard squads I was honestly expecting the strafes to do a lot more damage; what a waste of 120 munitions. His fault for not going t3 and getting a couple half trucks out I mean who needs su85s nowadays.

Anyone know why logically and balance wise the maxim gunner does not get pinned? Is it because the maxim gunners are incapable of getting pinned due to the design in the game engine? I don't see another reason why relic is trying to work so hard around that mechanic.

Not really

Well both mg weapon teams should have way less health than they do currently, they shouldn't really be in direct fire for long in the first place. I think what makes flanks a lot harder than it did in coh1 is MG crews now prioritize the closest squad so an mg42 is self sufficient against more than 1 squad coming into it's 90 firing angle so I wouldn't jump into the conclusion that a maxim is harder to flank because their firing angle is only about 30. Giving a mg42 more hp wasn't what they needed what they needed was an ability to suppress a maxim squad that attacked them head on, not have a war of attrition by getting extra crew members.