Profile of van Voort

It's not just a matter of when you do it, there's also where you do it...

Soviet Industry's fluff is all about production, which leads people to think it is all about pumping out armour and sending it to die for the motherland

Really though, with the MP reduction that becomes a significant limiting factor on builds and the Commanders Abilities are all about repair and keeping armour alive.


At some point I will get around to trying to play it again, however my thoughts are as follows:

1) Pump out armour, then use your abilities to keep it alive

2) Don't spam repair stations for want of any thing else to do with the Muni. That's a waste and congests the map.

3) Buy engineers and place mines and demos everywhere

# 231 As they became more experienced American Officers learned the value of running into combat much faster than their men in order to get killed before the rest of their command caught up

# 232 It is possible to negate the effects of incoming fire just by wanting to, but only if you are British

# 233 Units digging holes in the ground would scent mark them so that only their unit and close relatives could use them. No army would ever think of taking cover in a hole they had not dug themselves

# 234 This also explains why tanks will never drive over trenches despite that being something tanks were designed to do. Instead you must fill in the hole in the ground by shooting a few 75mm shells at it

# 235 Centaurs were an important part of the British Army in North West unit, and not withdrawn shortly after D-Day for the lack of enemy planes to shoot at

# 236 The T34/85 was not a mass-produced medium tank, but instead only available in limited numbers to favoured commanders

# 237 Conversely the King Tiger was available in such abundance that any Westfront commander could get as many as he liked simply by setting up a three truck campsite

# 238 Bringing more than heavy tank each onto a battlefield is forbidden. It is too dangerous as the extra mass might warp the space time continuum causing a black hole that might destroy the universe

# 239 Nazi Super Science has solved this issue, but only on the West Front and they refuse to share their secret with OKH

# 240 When the British joined the war everyone decided to embrace the spirit of fair-play and refuse to engage in combat during snow, rain or mud thereby ensuring a level playing field

There was the tiering system:

http://www.coh2.org/guides/33767/commander-tiers

Which I will admit is now outdated after the various changes however of the ones that were in Tier 4 and 5:

okw

Elite Armoured - No comment as I haven't tried it since the changes

soviets

Anything without Call Ins has been de facto buffed by changes to their tech structure and capping of Heavy Tanks


Defensive - I have seen people make good use of this where their intent is to take an area and then dig in very hard. However it does not scale at all so if the game goes later they may be outmatched

Reserve Army - Given that Irregulars are now AT Partisans that's enough to make it good by itself. Further PPSH and Con buffs in this patch mean that you can spam AT Partisans whilst activating Rapid Conscription to back them up with Cons without suffering too much MP bleed and still get the ML-20 built. Not tried this myself yet but I have seen it done

Conscript Support - Cons have been buffed, see above.

Guard Rifle Combined - Has Con buffs, but the Rapid Conscription to enable you to take heavy losses and not as good as Combined Arms

NKVD - Radio Intercept and Recon become very good when you get an arranged team that talks to each other. Propoganda counters Axis infantry and sometimes team weapons. Anti-Infantry is still better however

Partisans - Went straight to really really good and post-hotfix are still a powerful commander

Shock - Very expensive in MP

Soviet Industry - Not tried it since patch, but with cheaper T-34/76s and the M5 now being useful this could be interesting

usf

Mechanised - Bleh

ostheer

See also:

http://www.coh2.org/guides/31838/ostheer-101the-consolidated-guide-to-common-commanders

Defensive - No, its still hard to use as the main business is siting your PAK-43 and your signature later game ability is essentially defensive so you have no doctrinal offensive support. OKW Fortifications does this better and Ostheer have better PAK-43 commanders

Infantry - Expensive, the AFO might help you in early mortar battles versus Brits but again there are other and better ways to get that

Mechanised - Only Commander with Spotting Scope and Artillery combo so may be useful now on that basis alone

Encirclement - No comment

Festung Armour - It's better than defensive at being defensive and has some offensive capability

Festung Support - Only way to get an MHT in Common and has the Artillery Piece as well. Actually seeing this now in a lot of loadouts to counter Brits

Jaeger Infantry - Everything people have said about Infantry is true about this too, though this is more of a fencing and finesse commander

Storm - This a darkhorse pick for being under-rated and underused right now.
It has the Riegel 43 for stopping dead British armour, either early Centuar or late game Crocs and it has artillery and bomb strike for breaking stuff down. It also has Camo so your infantry can scout for same