Profile of KingAnj

Holy cow, really impressive! This is why i love the COH/COH2 community. Relic should be grateful to have such a dedicated and feedback-orientated community.

Great work! imma try it out tonight!

I actually like the tech of soviets vs germans.

I just feel soviets need a SMALL, SMALL, SMALL bounus to Anti-tank capabilities during the T2.5-3.5 game-area.

I would be thinking along the lines of giving penals PTRS upgrade to get either 2-4 rifles. OR giving Guards rifle ANOTHER additional x2 PTRS upgrade, to have a total of 4, and not be able to get DP rifles.

Obviously, buffing guards is kinda hard to do as 2v2+ games will make "massing guards" even better.

Or make a new commander/doctrine that makes Partisan units available in muliplayer where they are a 4 man squads that can be upgraded to either anti-inf (DPs) or anti tank(PTRS) and 2-4 men get those guns. I would like to say 0CP but, giving soviets a 0CP unit will make their early game EVEN MORE powerful. Maybe you can make a crappy balance idea, like DOW2 -Imperial Guard- Sentinals, and have partisan troops ONLY DECAP

I want to still make a BO/Strat where using Grens & PGrens G43s and "Ambush tactics"!

However, that commander has WAYYYYY too much muni in their abilities. Give a commander with ambush, g43, who cares, then 'Fuel to muni'!

That being said, i still think Pgrens with g43s & Shrecks are awesome "vs. all-units-snipers".

However, 180 muni makes me cry.

I feel that absolutely nothing is wrong with Vehicle smoke.

I feel GUARDS-DP-BUTTON is very very very well costed (1CP, 360 mp guards, 60 muni DPs, 45 muni ability).IMO, button works perfectly as its ONLY counter is smoke; another doctrine specific ability. If the german has/did not choose smoke, DP guards become even better.

If anything, guards are very proficent "vs. all comers" when fully equipped. Guards have not been 'changed/balanced' much and 3-4 squads of them can still kill p4s, especially with 'marked target'. Also, vet 2-3 guards with dps can hold their ground against pgrens and gren-LMGs. Plus, Anti-Inf Grenade is icing on the cake (even thou it sometimes doesn't work ).

As for blitzkrieg, i do agree that it should be disabled when engine dmg'ed. BUT, the argument of:

It's an earned vet ability. So it's a reward and should stay as is.

I like very much. This is very true and is not useable 'RIGHT AWAY'. I think since it's a vet 1 ability, it is not one of the bigger problem of 'balance' than everyone is complaining about and IMO, shouldn't change.

The 'strategy'

the Soviet commander needs to carefully think through his actions a german commander can rush in his tank and should he find himself in a tight spot he just smokes himself out of there almost for free.

is keeping your german tanks alive as A.) Good russians should be setting up mines MORE than germans, b.) should be getting some sort of eventual anti-tank weps (guards, atgun, mini-at guns, t34s, vet2-3 T70, su-76, su-85) by the time the german gets their T3 tank. Also, the soviets can do the same "care-free" armor rush as you explain, with the T-70 or the Kv-8 (or Kv-1!); especially with an early T-70 push as most germans won't/might not have anything else but regular-gren-shrecks and maybe a smelly Pak.

The more i play as germans, the more i see how effective T34s are. They pretty much go toe-to-toe vs p4s now and it all depends on who gets a side/rear hit 1st or that lucky "big hit" while both are under 25%.

off topic, i'm really happy with T-34 vs p4 balance now

I found getting early-ish shocktroops and/or early-ish T70s, stops this in its tracks, As molotovs, grenades & ppshs can start pushing back the LMGs.

Yeah, Never ever engage a LMG without green cover, molotovs and preferably x2 conscripts (or something else).

You need to keep micro up and do what the soviets do best, keep map control; keep on capping. I have walked pasted squads to cap/decap points before and keep the pressure on.

snipers help BUT, require tons of micro and focus. Cuase if you lose the squad, you've lost a huge investment. IMO, i feel x4-6 grens vs sniper(s) are a bad idea as they can simply swarm the conscripts and snipers with either pgrens or Halftrack. I'd consider snipers only when there are x2-3 grens.