Profile of MarcoRossolini

For an army that supposedly relies on its doctrines, its amazing how bad some Soviet doctrines are...

Good idea, got my thumbs up.

OT: the modelling of some of the vehicles in this game are hilariously inaccurate in some situations...

Comrade fellow Soviet team game players.


Please, please, please, stop spamming maxims.
All I see you doing with your maxims is attempting to advance early on and succeeding decently with lots of suppressed enemy units, but the maxims are so badly mauled that they can't push forward and actually take anything.
In the meantime your opposite OKW/OH number has gleefully taken the territory, with some minor inconvenience to themselves and is now proceeding to lock down their territory with MGs and Mortars. They are now waiting for vehicles.
Meanwhile you are facing this wall of bunkers or MGs you decide to get an AT gun or mortar to push things out, fair enough. But then you spam them.
Meanwhile your opponent has brought out vehicles or Stukas and now proceeds to trample all over your maxim spam. Your maxims, with no AT capabilities whatsoever, now are easy meat for any vehicles and your support weapons can't do squat against that Stuka.
you vainly bring out some shocktroops in the hope of making things better, but in the face of vehicles and vetted obers, you can do nothing.
You are now down to roughly 2-3 squads, one of those is an engie squad that you've had the entire game, the others are perhaps a conscript or a few shocktroops. That is precisely when I look to see why you've made no progress on your flank and I can see the results.
It's all the more irritating, because I might have at this point 4 cons, 2 guards and perhaps 2 engies to go with it, as well as snipers, SU-76Ms and the like.
Would it be so hard not to go for something other than maxims? When that is the result...?


(In all seriousness, everytime I'm in a 2v2 and I see some poor newb maxim spamming, I know it's a far better than even chance that we lose... it's not fun and I see it every game. Whatever the axis fanboy's rhetoric on how OP maxims are, the fact is that I've yet to see such a spam survive into late game without massive losses and multiple wipes of their maxims (and 240mp down the drain each time). It drives me insane. )

Undoubtedly many Soviet units could do with tweaks and I'm not saying the maxim needs buffing, but I hate seeing it spammed, it does its job well, but when spammed its such a blunt instrument that its dead simple for an axis player to use cover or what have you to flank and annihilate the spam...

What would happen if... the SU-76M remained where it is and exactly the same in every stat and cost... but it got 70 range for its direct fire?

Interesting...