Profile of skemshead

It's not problem of conscripts but a problem of 120mm which is currently OP because it has no counterpart.

Honestly, I don't know how to counter 120mm mortars (doesn't matter if they are coupled by cons blob or guards or t70 or anything).

Nothing counters 120 except artillery or maybe stupidity on your opponents behalf. The fact is unless the allied player leaves it isolated and/or allows its health to get exceptionally low, then it can simply retreat before it can be killed.

It should have retreat removed at the very least so as to allow counterplay.

Its the same old shit with soviets and by that I mean what is old is new again.

I have not played a good con-spammer since the patch has been released and as such have no real opinion except to say cons seem better and seem to hold their ground better than they used too. There have been a number of times where a pgren or flamer lost quite badly in situations where I would previously expected them to win or at least perform much better.

G43's really seem to be the weapon of choice now IMO.

The real soviet improvement as I see it, is guards. They are back to being really strong and their grenade and the buff it received makes them quite strong, almost op. I have lost numerous grens largely because if both squads throw grenades the guards nade seem to arrive faster and the squad if in cover gets wiped. The guard weapon snipes like crazy and dominates most fights so it seems you have to stay mobile and actually flank behind sight blockers or you will drop models on approach or moving into cover. The matchup with pgrens is quite surprising ime and often results in a loss or squadwipe if you push your luck.

It is quite a surprise that Ptrs damage vs infantry was nerfed by mods in previous patch because it was to strong (TheMachine spoke about it on his stream ) and now its back to being close to op. Guards are really back to being a quite strong all round unit and I am not sure that is a good thing as I suspect they will become meta again.

The other unit that has made a strong showing since the patch is the sniper. Almost nonexistent prior to patch, now I would say I am seeing snipers in 30% - 40% of games. This is also not a good thing as the counters are really quite weak especially the AC. The most effective method is really g43 spam and sprint.
Everything else is really hit or miss.

I think cons on their own are in a goodish spot and can be countered with standard double mg and good use of other units and mines etc. However when guards, snipers, 120 morter and mine spam are added to the mix, well sovs will almost certainly be the strongest faction again or at worst 2nd strongest.

kind of both kappa

do you have a replay?

because for me everything is working

No replay unfortunately.

Maybe a one off bug but I did watch replay twice to be sure and on both occasions the nade lands on the mine and does nothing.

I will try to replicate again if I remember in game.

Do grenades not detonate mines now.

Just watch a replay where my nade landed exactly on top of a mine and no detonation or even damage.

Thanks for analysis, and I do agree the luchs needed some kind of nerf. It was just so poorly implemented. With other things nerfing it like the handheld AT bug being fixed, or conscripts becoming meta, I don't think a now +35 second build time was justified. At least when there are so many other options that could have been implemented like an actual snare mine or nerfing the base stats to be regained with veterancy. It looks like what I stated above, either intentionally held till version 2.0 or just a panic implementation becaause they knew the luchs was still going to dominate.

The luchs itself was never the problem, although the fact that it was built almost every game suggests it was certainly a key part of a strong okw meta. The problem was getting counters on the field in a timely manner. The fact was okw could harass allied cutoffs and fuel points to easily and simply deny resources thus resulting in the luch being able to cruise around with little to fear. Note my views largely relate to usf and what I witness on pro player streams.

The solution unfortunately was going to be extremely difficult to determine because there are 3 allied factions with each faction handling the luchs with different degrees of success and with different methods.Personally i think usf is by far the most disadvantaged due to lack of mines which also adds to the problem.

In the end there were to many things to consider, especially given all the other changes and thus an inelegant fix (but safe) was implemented. Why it was left so late to test is quite strange given that it was certainly a priority for the patch.