Profile of van Voort

I love also that after 7 pages of discussion it is mostly about whether the DLC should exist.


No one appears to have taken the basic step of booting up the game and playing the TOW mission in question to remind themselves

"No retreat, no surrender"

Commissar squad there is a 3 man unit, the Commissar and two riflemen (someone better than me will be able to see the unit stats no doubt)


Buffs nearby infantry, if he dies units instantly shatter and are pinned.

VET 1:

50 MUN Spy Network (As partisans I believe)

VET 2:

Call in a KV2 440 MP / 250 F / 22 PC

VET 3:

Il2 Bomb Strike 200 MUN


Vet abilities sound interesting, but you have to Vet up a three man squad you can never retreat and screws you if it dies.



Normally you can have more than 1 it seems, but you cannot build anymore in the TOW Mission and you can select a normal commander on top. I went for Defensive Commander so as not to screw things up too much.


Also the TOW mission is early 43 with all that entails so the units are not the same as in MP.




In this mission No Retreat No Surrender buffs MP by 50 but disables retreats.


Also to be noted is that the TOW has radio towers so new units come in further up the field.

On big multiplayer maps it is going to be a long walk home to get healed if necessary and a long walk back afterwards so field prescence will be a problem

Also, whilst the Soviets have two methods to reinforce in the field (Merge + M5) I don't think that they have any way to heal.

This may be a problem

Yes I can see your damaged unit thank you

Stop driving right up next to me so my engineers have to move and break the repair they are working on

Also, stop driving over the campfires I keep building to stop them freezing to death while they work

This just means your repair will have to wait longer

Or are you just doing this to be perverted?

Winter Driver
Recrew and fully repair a Panzer IV tank during the Cold Weather challenge


I was lukcy enough to pick up 2 PIVs during a game at General Level, however I was only able to repair 1

I did not get the acheivement

Well, these may become more popular post patch as there will be fewer early tanks.

Also given that the FHT has been bumped back, putting a Pioneer with a flamer in a 250 is a subsitute

It is still too early to say, but here is your chance to predict who we are going to see more of in the meta and who less of in this patch

My picks:

Soviets:

Biggest Winner:

Defensive Commander

Having been hit with the nerf bat when his callins got pushed back to 2CP, now he has a point again. Being able to build T1 and call in to replace T2 didn't matter much when T3/4 came so fast

I'm not saying he's good now, only that I expect to see him more now post-patch


2nd Biggest Winner:

Urban Defence

Gets the 45s to allow AT with a T1 build and with a longer infantry game the Foward HQ will be more useful

Another commander we never used to see that we may again.


Honourable mention:

Soviet Industry

Higher fuel costs for teching means she may see a come back, but she is not exactly unpopular now


Biggest Loser:

Shock Army

See below for comments on shocks in general, however this guy lacks any call in tanks and the PPSH is no longer a nobrainer



Biggest Overall Loser:

Anything with shocks, given that you are not suppossed to be able to kill anything simply by forming 3 shock squads into a blob and running straight ahead anymore



Biggest overall winner:

Any Guards doctrine, especially Guards Motor, which was not exactly unpopular before



Darkhorse pic:

Anti Infantry

With terrain, flanking and cover more important intel will be crucial

We also predict that call ins will be important, especially the KV8

There is only one Soviet Commander with Recon and a call in, and it's a KV8