Profile of Cruzz

18% at the shortest range possible, which never happens

You should note that the minimum range in coh2 is in fact 10 units. If conscripts are firing from within molotov throwing range, they're doing that maximum damage. The old bug with ppsh was that it actually had 0 as this minimum range which made it increase dps as your units closed in from it.

Very fun stealth change:

Flamers now deal massive damage to units garrisoned inside M3 (and probably M5, didn't check it out because I wasn't T3 in the game where my stuff got slaughtered inside an M3). Previously they did nearly now damage, now it seems like they might actually be doing the against building garrison extra damage on top of all the models being guaranteed to being hit because they're so clumped up.

They come in at 3CP, the same time or even after PGs and vehicular counters hits the field. They're only an issue if you fight them head on with a vanilla Gren unit. They're like Penals, but more lethal close range as opposed to far range.

Yes, exactly, they put out penal-like dps with 3xppsh. A 240mp, huge utility T0 unit has as much dps as a T1, 360MP, anti-inf only squad. This leads to fun situations like vet2 cons always winning against vet1/0 PGs 1vs1, and eating grens for breakfast. When the only reasonable "counter" to ppsh cons early on in the game is a flameht, a horribly overpowered unit by itself, you know there's an issue.

But the truth is, this is a 'community commander' made by players who went to Vancouver, not relic, so the bright community minds who decided to put early game only stuff are to blame as well.

I find it ironic that commander made by community turns out to be most useless one in game, NKVD rifle doctrine at least have decent offmaps.

You have to realize that the "community" that went to Vancouver was mostly vcoh players who hadn't even touched coh2 and never went on to play it either.

The soviet one also started out pretty op, just it was overshadowed by the Windustry spam that started with the same patch. But after the huge nerfs the doucheguns got it was already a worthless doctrine last patch and even worse now.

German one is just as bad too because trenches and tank traps ain't worth building and you can get hull down + pak43 with a far better commander.

Except the new German commander and Elite Forces.....both are really strong.

Also keep in mind the T34/85 is now 9 CPs and the nerf to IL2. And PPSH will go up in price.

I dont think its OP. I think SI was OP and Elite was OP. This is not even close to that. Its just really good.

PPSH will go up to price to freaking 30 munitions (oh no, how can you ever afford that?) while also gaining 50% more power. I am keeping in mind that the T34s are 9 CPs, that's 14 minutes these days. The other doctrines are getting their call-in CP costs upped in the next patch apparently so this is a very temporary difference. I am also considering the IL2 nerf already, I don't know what the ability is like post-patch but I do know that armored assault and the major ppsh doctrines all had the ability as well so it getting nerfed punishes all of them and thus doesn't change the power balance of this being straight out superior to any of them.

Honestly even if they reintroduced the instant build times in soviet industry, I'd go as far as saying that with the current T70 performance it would no longer be as op as this doctrine. Elite Troops is still retarded and no commander design decisions should be made based on it. New german doctrine is probably fairly abusive but nowhere near the level of this soviet one. If you replaced recon run or the antitank strafe with g43s I might think it was indeed just as horrible balance wise as this soviet one, but alas.