Profile of rumartinez89

Not really a good game I got an extremely early Gren Wipe with my sniper and the guy gave up on my side. I thought he was playing defensive but it seems he just started messing around once I killed his teammates sniper.

Around the 10 min mark a couple LMG grens push and thanks to the rng gods both dropped their LMG so 2 Penals with LMG. However a 3rd LMG gren arrives and drops his LMG. Now I got Schwarzenegger squads running around wiping everything they see. Eventually we attack their base and pick up 4th LMG.

Penals+any german LMG=insane DPS. PG were literally melting once I hit vet3.

Fun game, huge swings in momentum.

I opened with sniper only got 2 kills before it died, was being cute trying to get a shot off but ended up retreating to late. Obviously bad opening but we slowly turned map to our favor. Held map control for a while and then a serious of misplays let them take over. My SU85/KV8 were badly microed, ally was IS2 stalling and Brit went from dominating to losing both his tanks trying to dive a Panther and running over a mine. After holding on for a bit my SMG guards got SEVERAL wipes and stole a MG and RAK which shut down a few pushes. Ally/my SU85's got some key kills which finally let us hold on to stars.

Fear propoganda comes in clutch when your trying to hold or push a VP.

Saw Tightropes game with Soviet reserve but no commissar. Decided to try PPSH with commissar since the attack buff should in theory make them put out a decent amount of damage. Since their reinforce is so cheap the rec acc nerf isnt so punishing. The game itself wasn't that great, my team won by a large margin but I just wanted to give the combo a try in the name of science.

I suck with conscripts so my opening was very passive until I got my molotov and then blob going. Luckily I was on the city-ish side of the map which would allow for some PPSH shenanigans. Got a couple good attacks in however I did keep my PPSH in a a team of 2 so extrapolating performance is a little hard. There were 2 "skirmishes" with vetted PPSH around 15-18 min mark where a bit of damage was done solo before 2nd squad helped. The damage done even while retreating was huge, didn't get the wipe but in team games were more is going on it might be a great way to get that dreaded off screen wipe. The rest of the commander worked out fairly well, weapon drop is cost efficient and howi is always good for team games. Didn't use rapid conscription since I was extremely focused on trying to get a good battle between a PPSH squad vs anything.

Couple random thoughts:
I thought the commissar wasn't supposed to be able to pick up weapons or crew weapons? Picked up flamer and crewed at gun.
When my HOWI got decrewed I couldn't see it, it looked destroyed but in replay it is there. Weird.

For the math wiz like MMX(wink wink) could you do a calculation of what the DPS would be for conscripts,7man,PPSH,Penals to see how big the benefit is.

Thanks for reading.

You mean squads or models? Also why this arbitrary number?

Edit: anyway let's be honest, you can't have a good answer to this. Let's take three examples why debuff for "blob" isn't working.

1- Your answer is squads. So this mean that 4 squads of 3 models, 12 models in total, would receive the debuff while 3 squads of 4 models, 12 models in total wouldn't.

2- Your answer is models. So this mean 4 squads of 4 models, 16 models in total, would receive the debuff but 3 squad of 7 (conscripts), 21 in total, would not receive the debuff.

3- Your answer is an arbitraty >16 (4 squad of 4 models) then again 3 squads of conscripts would receive the debuff while not being particularly any better than 4 squads of grenadiers or 4 squads of Obers or Falls.

Then goes the usual implementation dilema, if I have 4 squads close-by defending my area Am I blobbing? etc...

I think it should come down to squad number and spacing. For your first example your worrying about model total as your comparing squads. The way the game is balanced the 4 squads with less models would represent mainly axis(Ost, OKW elite, Tommies)these squads already have higher DPS to compensate for their lower model count. So receiving the debuff would make sense since it would be stronger than the 3 squads with 4 models.

The commissar abilities:
"Not One Step Back"
"Hold the Line"

can now be used on snipers

It has been usable on snipers since at least the feb/mar 2021 winter patch. It is an ok boost that requires lots of micro between two support units. To get the most benefit it would require using conscripts with sniper for screening and snares while also keeping MP usage to a minimum. The downside is obviously the lack of early pushing power and near elite performance of Penals when used in conjunction with the Commissar.