Profile of coh2player

Obersoldaten Abilities:

Doctrinal grenade assault

The others:

-It looks like a bomb/booby trap like from OF
-the smoke grenade that does damage too
-Bundle grenade

Just rifle formations: The Soviets were much more powerful than the Germans outside of the division and in a synergistic sense. There were more of them, for one. The Germans, man for man, were more powerful than the Soviets inside of the division.

The key combat difference between the standard rifle formations of the two sides was in ammunition. The ooB was different, but not massively. Germans had a better communications/signals net and motorized AT guns & command elements while the Soviets had less. Soviet mortars were either medium or heavy, while German mortars (excluding 50mm platoon, which were removed in 41') were medium. German infantry divisions initially had Infantry gun batteries supporting their battalions but these were taken out after Barbarossa ended, and then were reissued on a priority basis.

Soviet divisional artillery guns were mostly light (76mm) while German divisional artillery were mostly medium and heavy (105mm/150mm). German artillery performance was also more effective.

The German infantry battalions used about twice the tonnage of supplies per man vs. Soviets and this extended to their ammunition.

The big killers were mortars and artillery (inflicted most of the casualties). Under German infantry doctrine, they were to pin/fix enemy troops in place, and then do the real damage with mortars and tactical artillery fire. The Germans took this doctrine very seriously and used more MG ammunition belts than anybody else in the war.

The Soviet rifle forces had many of the same functional class of weapons but did not have as much ammunition. Their machineguns, mortars, and light artillery could not run as frequently as the Germans but they had a lot more submachineguns for close combat.

Doesn't the easy eight have a 76mm gun?

BTW, are you allowed to identify the other USF commanders? You should be.

Command posts are a lot more expensive (fuel) than I anticipated.

USF 57mm gun (notably weaker than Pak and Zis...). Bazookas should become pretty important for USF

I'm thinking that I will end up spitting my rifles into two types: 2 x bazooka and 2 x BAR.

There seems to be only a 'small window' where this commander could give an edge (mid game?).

I just finished a 24 minute game with mobile defense (axis) and I was swimming in fuel and relatively poorer in manpower.