Profile of MarcoRossolini

My chief complaint of the Soviets is that, barring about 2-3 things, everything in the stock faction is markedly inferior to its OH counterpart.
Granted, Doctrines make up for that more than enough, but the fact remains, why if I want to use iconic units like the T-34 or SU-76?

At this rate, why bother having a faction at all and just have a doctrine?

Would love to see a thread like that. I'm tempted to reinstall the game just so I can try some ideas I have out.

I'm seeing it now, 4 conscript start followed by 2 engineers or something... what can go wrong? (ha)

Arguably, for the Soviets the 2 best doctrines for this are anti-tank tactics and Defensive doctrine (obviously) with a possible third place going to urban defence.

Some theory -
The core of killing off tanks that you're presumably going to be facing down is forcing them to over extend so that they become easy meat for your tanks or AT guns. To that end. You don't want a fixed defensive position and if anything you don't even want the AT guns even covering the front line. Arguably you just have your anti-infantry at the front line. (for OKW that's a little hard), we're talking about MGs mainly. They hold up the main assault and shut down the infantry, perhaps at the same time you smack them with indirect fire. The tanks obviously will keep moving forward since nothing bad will be happening to them. In my mind I wouldn't have mines there. You want make it so that when the enemy hits a mine, there's no possible escape. They can't just reverse a few metres and then you become the one attacking.

With the enemy infantry hopefully seperated, you have your AT trap infantry ready, if the enemy hasn't struck a mine by now already. With the tank's engine damaged, its dead meat and you send in your AT guns.




I have a feeling that defense by itself, particularly in this game, is worthless if you don't gain from it. Therefore I'd recommend having a strong reserve. You have lots of AT mines etc already, if those are backed up by some of your forces, the non-manouevre ones, then you can afford to defend. Meanwhile you have your mobile forces, presumably a tank supported by some elite infantry (I'm imagining an armoured reserve of dual T-34-85s would give someone an extremely bad day... but Panthers or P4s would do the job just as well, if not better). Those then flank the overextended tank, or assault a different location, even the enemy base.

Just my uninformed noobish theorising.

Probably my personal order for best at defending a position would go -

1. Ostheer (bunkers + minefields + tellermines plus excellent AT guns and fausts)
2. Soviets (excellent single mine, good doctrines, very close to Ostheer, I'd be tempted to put them on an equal footing)
3. OKW (because of their flaktruk and single mine, but no MG, but a few decent doctrines)
4. Americans (M20 mine just isn't good enough when that's your only mine)

The problem is that Relic is unlikely to want to mirror the tanks that we saw from CoH1, but that'll put them in an awkward position as they won't be able to use either Shermans (cos the yanks have got those) or Cromwells (because realistically Cromwells would perform the same as T-34s, and they appeared in the previous game), so what will they put in instead?


My money is on the Crusader kappa.

A decent lategame.

Seconded.

Salute to you sir!