AI always builds scout cars and halftracks, su76, stug, penals. lol |
Yesterday I played against a guy who wrote me like 5 times in the chat that he wants my mom to die after I KILLED HIS UNIT IN A VIDEOGAME. It only made me laughing but if any game is ever going to piss me off so much then I'll just quit playing. |
Niiice, worldbuilder is what this game needs.
What about balance patch? Is it coming out on Nov12 too? |
90 muni for one lmg
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Penal troops were some of the best and fiercest infantry Soviet Union had (particularly in early years of war)
The picture everyone seems to have are of crying cowardly deserters who were made to fight.
This is thanks to Western cold war propaganda and post war Communist propaganda.
In reality, Penal squads were composed of criminals, political prisoners and tough people who weren't shiny example of communist idea of citizen. Still extremely partriotic, when it comes to fighting invaders.
Tho, no army wants to turn to prisoners and criminals, when it comes to who is better fighter between them and conscript peasants, you decide.
Even tho being penal squads, they received extraordinary number of medals (considering that no one wanted to acknowledge or recognize their efforts, for obvious reasons)
Just wanted to say that, from historical view, there is nothing wrong with Penals being elite Soviet inf. After all, they were spearheading attacks and did some extraordinary things during the course of the war.
As far as i know penal batallions were made of only officers who committed crimes. |
I go 3 cons, 2 maxims 120mm, guards, at nades, at gun, t34, at gun, t34, m5 quad, then medic upgrade and muni cache. 120 mm is awesome against them. German player is in constant fear of losing his lmg gren squads if they dont move. Attacking with maxim only is suicide, yes it is mobile but anyways it is a support unit, use conscripts to advance and maxim behind to supress. 120mm will do the rest. You just have to not lose your base in first 6 min of the game |
I've oneshotted a Panther with T34 LOL WTF and havent even notice it during the game.
Proof:
http://www.gamereplays.org/companyofheroes2/replays.php?game=83&show=details&id=289008 |
T1->T4 snipers and SU85 = win
T2-t3 is much safer imo, sniper gets easily killed by lmg grens as well as penals and m3, while mortar counters grens pretty good or at least makes them move around not allowing to use the lmg because if they stop there is a risk to lose the whole squad to a precision strike. Zis has almost the same speed and rotation as su85 lol and the same ability as su76 and it can be recrewed and even equipped with camouflage, and get +9% penetration with all 3 bulletins, it is probably the best set of bulletins right now imo because they really can make some difference. |
Try mortar. Keep cons at long range and barrage grens. At vet1 it has good chance of destroying full squads with precision strike. They have to stand still to shoot with LMG, and mortar can make them move. If they dont - precision strike |
just played against this strat in 2v2 on semoiskiy. They locked the center and fuels with mg42s and started to spam opels. I made a standard mortar while my mate got 120mm. Then they started throwing stugs and an ostwind on us, but at nades, guards and 2 zis guns were able to destroy them, tracking on zis is very good to chase tanks with damaged engine. Those 2 zis then killed 3 tigers trying to destroy my isu 152. After that we turned the game around and locked the map, destroyed all opels and won. I think this is really lame strat even though those guys both were lvl 90+(4 stars). I'm gonna add a replay tomorrow. |