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Also, is the general consensus that these units in pic are at medium range or more medium to long...

I thought red cover had worst penalties than open cover, to my surprise it only affects suppression

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So in this situation, would it be best to put one squad in the house and one in the light cover or one in the house yet leave one squad on the road at max distance. Is it better to position grens at max range, when attacking cons in green cover or does green cover negate the range adavantage.

Campy soviets on this map is one of my pet peeves because Ost is a little lacking in the tools to deal with this type situation.

Firstly, the soviet player got an early T2 and mortor. You can see this through the fog of war so you need to think about countering this, which grens and mg42 just don't do. A scout car is of little use vs sov T2 unless your on a more open map. It is too hard to navigate the choke points on this map, your at risk of mines, early at guns will reduce its effectiveness and his mortors were in fairly defensive positions.

Ideally you want a fast pgren for flanking and to take out his mortor because once he gets dug in your job only gets harder. A counter motor is also necessary to apply pressure to mgs, at guns and at the very least to make him reposition his own mortor. Also smoke can help pgrens and flamers get in close.

You had a mortor half track, use it. It can apply a lot of pressure on campy soviets especially if you flank with pgrens at the same time.

You were caught out with your p4s, gotta watch those cps. Once T34 85s are due, start playing defensive, get two pack40s and keep them behind your tanks. Also start putting down tellers in the area you want to keep your tanks. I have 3 teller mine bulletins which lowers the price to 41 muni, really effective against sov callins.

Eventually i think your loss boils down to not providing any indirect fire on his support weapons and not having any units for CQ combat. It is entirely possible you could have defeated him before the callins.

Also, you were floating at one stage, a muni or fuel cache would have been beneficial...

The title says almost all of it. I have been seeing nothing but spams for months now. It is getting pretty boring and cringe worthy. As soon as I see a 2v2 Russian team, I know what is going to come. Now I was shocked a few weeks ago when I saw some guards, yet they now feed the epic spams as well.

one of the following:

1. Shocks --> Is2

2. Guards --> T34 85

3. Conscripts --> T34 85

4. Conscripts --> Is2

4. Conscripts --> Ptrs conscripts --> multiple t34 76s

You forgot :

- Maxim Spam
- M3 flame cheese
- Sniper abuse
- Penal spam flamer Cheese

Literally nothing else, so boring and repetitive, it makes one puke

In all reality, soviets have the most options of all the factions for varied openings and playstyle but are hard to master without spamming. This is the problem with most soviets and to lesser degree USF, many players can't complete without resorting to some kind cheese tactic. To those that say Soviets have no choice, well having watched Stephenn cast ( probably more than what i play ) i would disagree with you. Soviets are just as viable when spammed and abused, although combined arms is more enjoyable and more effective.

But this is why soviet matchup is boring. It often feels like your opponent is just taking the easiest route to win, rather than opting for an interesting game. These days i quit as many games as i play against soviets largely because my opponents crap just bores me. Better to hope next game is interesting even if rank takes a hit rather than just grind out the same crap over and over and over.

Note : i blame relic moreso for this situation, as the majority of plays will take a boring win over enjoyable loss.

vs the USF you get either riflespam or docrtine infantry spam followed by:

--> shermans
--> jackson

--> Shermans + doctrinal armor

or

--> the the horrible rifle spam with 1919 and bazookas and some shermans

But to add some more fuel to the flames, as Allies, you get the same flavor. The OKW and the three most common spams I face when playing against them:

OKW design is just broken. Trying to used combined arms is just an exercise in frustration and often you will be facing spam so spamming back is the only real option.

1. Volk spam --> volk shreck spam --> Schwere HQ denial of teritory --> Panther

2. Jager spam --> volk shrekcs --> Schwere HQ denial of teritory --> Panther

3. Panzer Fuseliers spam --> rakettenwerfers --> Schwere HQ denial of teritory --> Panther

Kubels mixed in here and there, annoynce beyond imagination.

Ostheer as always trying to strugle their way up from the first minute.
My most effective tactic with Ostheer so far:

Ostheer are mostly fine atm, some minor teching adjustments needed. The big issue is still the fucking squad wipes because of the cover sysytem.

skipping t1 --> 2 pios --> one fuel cahce --> capping and avoiding confrontations --> t2 rush --> 2 panzergrenadiers --> scout car --> t1 --> mg42s --> pak or panzergrenadiers (depending on kind of spam) --> techup when possible and go on from there.

I cannot see this working in 1v1 against any semi competent player.

If I spam with that faction, it never works. What I am trying to say is, the irritations of spam are getting larger and larger with every game. I can't be the only one who has lost much of the love he once held for this game. Now with the brits comming up, I fear more spam, more horrible meta and more horrible games.

The game is geared more towards the casual gamer so they can sell more DLC etc etc. Coh1 could be hard to get into, you would often get annihilated when you first dipped your toe into multiplayer and as such many would never return. Smurphing was a major problem in coh1. Is coh better than coh2, well yes and no, both appeal to different players.

The issue imo comes from how manpower is calculated and to a lesser degree how mapcontrol has no effect on unit numbers. The fact that a faction can just keep building infantry until callins and remain relatively competitive is not going to lead to interesting and challenging games. I have seen many games where an infantry spammer has only slightly lower manpower income than someone who is going combined arms/ at guns/ tanks, which to me seems to be wrong. Going armour should give a greater manpower advantage than it currently does.This ofc does not apply so much at higher level.

This game still has huge potential but i doubt relic will ever address the issue of spam because it will simply alienate much of the player base. Sadly i think it is the scrubs that make relic the most money and that why these issues for some will always remain...

Use 4x rifle >nades>LT >M20 to creep forwards using a wall of smoke,then use M20 and LT to dominate flanks while you slowly push the sniper. Even if you don't kill he's forced to move back and give ground.

If That doesn't work,2 or 3 rear echelons+ 2 rifles into M20 is good as well.

After thinking on this, i like the idea of using smoke to push forward. As everyone knows USF has to keep the pressure up to OST and delay his teching. Many people fail against a sniper because they push too hard too early. I think spamming smoke allows you to push his resource points, even if you only decap and then move onto the next one while your rear echelon caps the flanks and behind you.

Then tech to the flak to force him into getting pack, or m20 for flanks and defensive mines. Alternatively, if you can confine your opponent by using heavy smoke, a quick sherman can be a real pain to deal with if USF player doesn't go full retard. Sometimes just forget about trying to kill sniper.

Maps also play a huge part, even the starting position can dictate a snipers effectiveness. Sometimes it is smarter to just play the hiding game and stay out of the open, then a sniper really loses it effectiveness...