Profile of S73v0

I hate this map with a passion. Imo mgs rock this map so as soviets I will either go for a sniper car start or a start involving quick maxims similar to your current T2 build.

The sniper car start is with your starting engineer immediately build T1 then build a sniper and then an m3. Use your sniper car to harass the mg and grens microing it around. After the sniper car you get 3 cons. If he goes for gren spam switch into conscript spam with molotovs and ppshes. If he goes for T2 get guards and plant mines to kill the scout car.

The advantage of the sniper car is that you get your sniper on the field much earlier and do much more damage. The disadvantage is that you lose field presence at the start. But it can negate the grens upgraded with lmgs that everyone is going nowadays which just rips apart cons by themselves.

I haven't found clowncars with flamers to be very effective this patch as a faust and a bit of focus fire can take them down quickly. Don't charge them in unless there is only 1 unit or unless you have a lot of con support. A sniper car will allow you tee off with no danger to the scout car unless he gets a his own AC. Losing a clown car without it doing anything really slows down your teching as soviets.

In this game I think you managed to match your opponent, and at the end you could have won if you could have kept your pressure up. Especially your sniper was your hero and was able to inflict alot of damage. But you lost on vps and I think this is mostly due to you not capping them at the start. So yeah work on your capping order and make sure you don't neglect the vps.

Nice job harassing the fuel and holding it for a long time, but yea just cons on this map is pretty bad so you lost it back again quite quickly. Gj getting healing quickly as some of your squads were pretty low health. When your troops are like that always consider getting healing instead of teching as it can really pay off late into the game.

Remember to get AT nades when you see the halftrack. It can really pay off and allow you to punish an opponent when he plays incorrectly. My first vehicle out of T4 wouldn't have been the SU-85. Those vetted lmg grens were giving you alot of trouble. Get the SU-76 instead for the arty or even the katyusha. He was pinning you in your base and since you had the fuel for a long time you know can get the SU-85 out afterwards in time to counter the p4. The SU-85 could only counter the halftrack but its tough without infantry support and with the pak on the field.

You got the pak. That is very good. Remember to repair it up. This is the point where I would have made my comeback as a pak and a SU-85 with mines, AT nades and button would have been able to counter axis armour coming. I would have gotten more conscripts combined with sniper to overwhelm the ostheer infantry. Merge your conscripts with the pak to keep the pak healthy.

Still haven't got AT nades... Remember it's a must have upgrade as soviets against armour. The pak was decrewed. You're still having trouble against the vetted grens. I would consider getting molotovs and more conscripts to deal with that. It would have helped to get a different doctrine with ppshes as the only thing you got out of your doctrine was the mortar and mark target.

Ouch the panther rolled onto the field and you're SU-85 was fausted and your pak was still decrewed in your base. This was when you lost the game. Make sure to keep your pak healthy even making a conscript squad to recrew it would have been good and remember to repair the pak.

You wasted your munis on mark target when all your AT was gone. You made a penal, I would have gotten cons to get the pak but at this point you were low on vps and not much you can do. Gg wp.

To conclude:

• get vps at the start
  
• modify your builds for map which is hard to flank as soviets, look for builds involving mgs or high mobility units to flank german mgs.
  
• consider going a doctrine with ppshes to make your cons more powerful against vetted grens
  
• get at nades earlier
  
• when you're lacking in anti-inf and AT and floating alot of manpower just get more conscripts
  
• make sure you recrew the pak 40 and repair it, it can pay off huge dividends when combined with SU-85
  
• don't waste your munis on mark target when there is nothing shooting at the vehicle. Use it on mines, AT nades, button etc.
  

Otherwise your sniper play was good, your fuel harass at the beginning was good. Just have to learn to play late game and defensive against a good player.

Also please post any thoughts you had on the game as it allows me to focus on things that you are having alot of trouble with instead of rambling on things you already know. If you have any questions feel free to ask.

TradeMrk and Doomlord52 the new mythbusters?

You'll see somewhere in the game when he first captures the p4 I sent my vanilla p4 against the vetless but skirted p4 my opponent had. And you could clearly see that my p4 was completely destroyed by the skirted p4. Once he killed my p4 he started stacking vet and by the time he got vet 2 hardly anything did damage to it.

Cool, I will have a look at it by Wednesday.

Imo smoke should also be an accuracy debuff for units shooting through it just like in coh1. The coh2 true sight sometimes doesn't make sense