Profile of SgtBulldog

What's that ghost unit doing there?

After having played mostly team games since I got the game, I'm now turning more time towards 1v1.

I've played germans a few times too, but since it's so hard to get a game (usually 69/31 searching in favour of germans) and since, I think the german faction feels a bit cheesy, I mostly play soviets.

The successrate is much lower though. I've only lost one game as germans, but of 30 to 40 games as russian, less than half are victories.

And this is what usually happens: I can control the early to mid-game, often eliminating MGs and cutting the german fuel. In mid game I build Zis and put down as many mines as I can. But come late game, I still get drowned in Tigers or Panthers, run off the map and lose with the enemy having around 100 VPs left.

I've really been working on the part of the play that aims at cutting the enemy fuel, but obviously it can't be enough: Last game he drove TWO Tigers into my base, smashed up stuff and limped out with damaged engines, taking fire in the rear from 2 Zis (but escaping still the same).

This leads me to wonder if it's possible to put up some rule of thumb for how long time I need to cut off enemy fuel by - for example - 5, 10 and 15 minutes to avoid this inevitable Steel Train?

Clearly controlling all fuel all of the time is the best way, but let's be realistic: it's not going to happen as you move on to better opponents.

Or perhapps I'm getting this wrong? Now that all points yield a bit of fuel and german tanks cost less fuel, perhaps focus on cutting-off just isn't a viable strategy?

This isn't really an issue in CoH2. In vCoH the american and wehrmacht were specifically designed to give one a small edge in early game, and one in late game. In CoH2 both factions earn their veterancy in the same way and they also both have multiple super tanks to their disposal. So in CoH2 it comes just down to whoever has the best unit preservation.

Really?

But the teching and Building costs are so different for germans and soviets, that I'd assume one or the other has the advantage in some stages of the game.

German teching and Building is quite cheap in fuel for example, so I had the impression that this was designed to give germans an early advantage in tech.

After the most recent patch which saw the MG42 made almost useless,

The realism in that post sort of sums up where this thread has gone.

Seriously folks, if someone wants to bitch about something he thinks is unbalanced, count to 20 before you reply. Don't wolfpack or gang-rape him.

I find that the s-minefield is actually usefull.

It may be because ppl use it so rarely, that soviet players have forgotten they exist. Whatever it is, I seem to score quite a few hits with them.

I think only the best players notice those signs in the heat of the battle, but no, it makes no sense that you can predict where the minefield is, if you pay just a little attention.

Thanks for the tip about cancelling the build midway, though. Even more usefull now.