Profile of van Voort

I want to like this thing, but I usually regret building it


It is very expensive and vulnerable as a direct fire weapon, but as a proper artillery piece it's basically "An enormous explosion will happen somewhere in the area you indicated"

This means either something just got fucked, or nothing happened.

And if nothing happens, the one shot and long cooldown means it will take a long time to vet if ever



I much prefer the M-20 because that is more reliable, has better range


Not that I wouldn't mind a Soviet "Artillery Division" doctrine that had both

I'm pretty certain they do

It is trucks that now only affect the owner

As in build orders, map specific strategies?

Arranged teams or randoms?


The popular Soviet opening strategy right now is simply to spam Maxim guns, this shuts down their infantry and kubels


OKW trucks are high value static targets that usually have to be on the battlefield to be useful.

Mortors and Artillery enter into their element, especially if you can hit their medic truck after they've just retreated there and get good squad wipes


OKW is better at you at everything except onmap artillery and call ins

A perfectly workable strategy is to use that to your advantage and use your other units to protect your artillery and hit him on the counter (preferably after he has walked into a mine field)

Mortors, if annoying enough, will provoke him to get a Walking Stuka, however by the time he gets that you should be close to getting a big gun to which he has no real counter save paratroopers.

Oh, and Soviet mines are awesome, use them a lot.


If you are on a close in map with terrain and room to cover you can try to fight his infantry head to head with PPSHs and Shocks


ISU152 remains pretty damn good on the right places in the right maps


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Vanilla Germans, if you are playing with OKW guys, which you usually will be, then build all the things they cannot and they will be your best friends:

Caches, MGs, Bunkers, PAKs

Pick a doctrine with recon and heavy call in strikes (or take Tigers)


You won't lead the team in damage doing that but you will get the team to win

how do you not know what an opinion is???

An opinion is that thing that's like an arsehole right?

so they should implement trading, so you can trade your worthless bulletins and faceplates for a commander? good luck convincing someone to accept that trade.

i think what you want (and all the other complainers) is to just be handed all the commanders for free without playing the game.

There are people who think that, but I'm not one of them


I would like a clear idea of what I have to do.


When acheivements were linked to bulletins you knew what you had to do, and could go out and do it - often using tactics and units you would never have used otherwise (Chasing T-70s with Panthers, baseraping someone with SU-76s, etc)



It's not like the only two options are:

P2W

or

Duplicate Faceplates from here to eternity