Profile of Porygon

Elefant doctrine is quite shit.

Elefant is expensive like fuck, only workable in large open area, and comes too late.

Tiger Ace is arguable better.

Hmm bug I guess.

But I like it, if it is forever until dead, it will be too hard to stay in game for only a vet 3 tiger

So it's ok for someone to make Germans look like they're complete shit/hard to play/need buffs, but somebody does the exact same thing with Soviets and THAT person is a "fan boy?" Pretty hypocritical. I find it pretty ironic that the people who go around calling people fan boys are the ones most obviously biased towards a certain faction *cough Porygon cough*.

There's nothing wrong with having a preferred faction. However, please try to be more objective when discussing something like balance. If all I see from someone is "soviets so ez to play, so op, nerf them" or "germans are noob faction, so broken", it's hard to take that person seriously...

So I play both faction reaching that high level and saying out my feelings of Soviet being easy to play, Ostheer need much more effort to handling stuff, what's wrong with it hur? That's true for me, I don't care you agree or not.

Ridiculous stuff are being ridiculous, OP stuff are being OP, I was just pointing out they are being ridiculous but never say a fucking single "NERF" word. I play to win anyway.

Shocks have zero anti-vehicle ability. Flame HT destroys them and is great for forward re-enforcing and defense later in the game. Pgrens can also reasonably stand up to shocks, especially once they start to get vet. A sniper can cause a lot of MP drain killing shocks and their vet1 ability is murder on them. I've seen it kill up to 3 men out of a full health shock squad.

Flamer HT indeed hard countering shocks but I tend to not using Flamer HT to hunt shocks. Because if the Soviet player are decent, he will always having a Zis covering the shocks and using the shocks as the best bait for the flamer HT. If the Zis fire one shot in the HT, it is almost the second shot must come over and doom the HT, unless you pop smoke. Losing a flamer HT early usually means GG. I prefer these safer ways,

- use sniper, if he get more than one shocks get more sniper, they can really bleed them a lot, but I don't recommend using the vet 1 ability because it is too RNG-based, wasting 45 muni just to kill 2 model DO NOT WORTH

- use MG42, but make sure someone else shooting at the shocks, so even they pop smoke, the small arms would still suppressing them, thus rendering them useless

- close air support little strafe can instantly pin down shocks, use PG spraying them

- S-mines, great BOOOOM

Ways I don't recommend

- using PG head on (just bleed your manpower more than him)
- using HT (risk of getting owned by Zis)
- using Grens (they ignore your bullets like Neo )

PPSH conscripts have the constitution of a sick 6 year old girl. They die quickly to just about any unit that looks their way even at trip vet. They cost the same as grens, so if they're making a lot of cons you can fight them with grens and a couple upgraded grens (either G43 or LMG) will cause a ton of casualties to those cons as they try to rush you.

Conscripts are indeed fragile but decent Soviet players must have more than one squad trying to fight one Grens squad, without some vet, even LMG42/G43 stands no chance against those riots. The best way is keeping your upgraded Grens together, fend away the cons, then use PG mob them up by the retreat route
(Another nasty way is planting S-mine on retreat route ensuring squad wipe )

If you're playing elite, don't completely skip vetting some units. Vet makes a huge difference and early vet can be a deciding factor. Also Vet 2 or 3 P4's are fantastic and can help delay the need for panthers depending on how the game is going. They also have decent anti-infantry ability.

Vet up stuff will do, but don't overdone it. Investing a vet 2 or 3 P4 sounds stupid to me, because it would be too expensive, too risky to lose it

not really, soviet infantry play is more forgiving, however german armor play is more forgiving. Okay, so you got into a bad situation with your cons, say a brummbar is right next to you, just retreat, more often than not, cons will live. However, say you acidentally got into a bad situation with your t-34 or is-2,you are dead. There is nothing that can save you. Got into a bad situation with your PZ IV? Pop smoke and blitz away.
So yeah, this is how the game is supposed to work, soviets have better inf, germans got better armor.
That said, there are some things that germans have that could use a buff.
(stug E, scout car). Other than that, i think the game is fairly balanced. Buffing the scout car should fix the soviet sniper problem.

Who can play tanks if Soviet just rollover the early game?
(aka my coOoOoOoOoOoOoOons strat since launch, with maphack and PPSH since latest patch)