Profile of Imagelessbean

IL-2: DON'T instantly retreat when you hear "AIR RAID!". Spread your infantry units in as many opposing directions as possible and then retreat.

What I've found is that if you just hit the retreat button on all your squads, the IL-2 will track a particular squad and nail all the others in it's path.

If you do that then the squads will need to continue to walk around. At which point they will get picked off by the first path. I do agree though that bunched squads are always going to die, but you don't get to do this after the flairs come. You have to do it before.

I would consider reducing the cost to reduce the damage if that was an option.

I have had minor success using upgunned AC's to shoot down IL-2's since I almost never get an ostwind. If they miss though, they die since the plane targets them.

What I read is ppl asking for something like the Puma (and the Puma was directly mentioned): a unit that can engage infantry and drive them off.

While that may be an option by simply increasing the price, I also feel that some players are just being too lazy here. They don't want the hazzle of having to kite infantry. They want an anti-infantry tank that they can park in the middle of the conscript blob.

Well, you know what? I don't like that kind of game. I'm perfectly all right with 221/2 and M3 being paper tanks they are.

I absolutely love the AC in vCOH and was very, very good at kiting. Right now the 222 does not matter one bit how much you try to kite. Hoorah + AT nade ends it (amongst almost anything else), and at max range the damage is pitiful. Add to that terrible pathfinding (as mentioned) and things start to get really ugly. To be fair the lightly armored AC in vCOH was able to stand up to small arms fire, unless it was an mg (or Bars). That is all I am asking for, a car that is good against infantry to be able to shoot at infantry. Obviously, if it gets better it needs a price increase. I don't want the puma, that would not be fair in T2.

You don't know why players choose Ost. You are postulating it is because they are better. I disagree. I think more people choose Ost because they are easier to pick up and play. Unless you have more evidence you cannot state this as fact.

Based on my experience and replays I believe there are a number of abilities that currently favor the Soviets and the small proportion of players searching is a poor way to decide balance. Keep in mind at any one time 100's of players (all in 50/50 split games) are competing. A tiny minority is searching simultaneously, and these few may favor one side or another at any time.

Just played a game where this was used well multiple times. It was just about crippling in a large battle (this was 3v3) where tanks and infantry were trying to move around. It was wiping squads picking off injured tanks and being devastating in general.

Just so you know Oz we had 2 ostwinds to counter it, but since there were so many infantry targets to engage they ignored the plane. Lost almost my entire army even after retreating, and then it finished off a Stug for good measure.

See how you just did chicken in the egg there...

Once guards are seen THEN the lmgs tend to come out. And now you have no counters. Just like the flameht comes out after the shocks hit the field. So your prior arguement is only valid if i have acess to bith sts and guards. Me i like to remove shrek squads more than crappy ass button so i tend ro go sts.

If he is floating munitions then you don't need elite troops because you can beat him with vanilla units. Continue to execute your strategy without selecting if you wish. My point is only that if you see lots of lmg grens (which by the way guards can easily win against, just pretend to throw a grenade and grens have to keep moving, lmg = useless) then go shocks. If you see 1 lmg gren squad, then that is no real threat. Just make sure you are in cover when you engage it and force it off the field first by targeting with as many units as possible.

If you consistently struggle against inf choose shocks, if you need to quickly destroy light vehicles choose guards. If you plan on using lots of T34's I would also choose guards.

You don't understand how good guards are so you attack me. I can tell you from experience, if you learn to use the unit fully it will not disappoint you.

I also want to make clear, yes button is 40 munitions per use (in a munitions light faction), but unlike shreks for the Soviet the Ost player never knows when you are going to do it. Therefore, you can drop it whenever you fine it most helpful and at critical moments in battle. The shreks are obvious once you see them you know he is going after your tanks. Guards are a thinking man's unit, and the ability to stop a tank for 40 munitions and allow you to get 1 or 2 more shots off is killer. It also requires the tank to accelerate from a stop, making it slow even after.

Everyone agrees Soviets float munitions but as soon as someone says "You gotta keep using them to stop tanks dead", everybody else goes "Oh I don't have the munitions for that". Seriously, you have the munitions, you are playing Soviet.