Profile of InsanePriest

Haven't read through all the posts, since there are quite a lot of them

First of all: I play both soviets and germans and hope to be as much as possible impartial MVGame

I feel the same about nades being more consistent and rewarding for both players: those who use them well and others who pay attention and micro their units to not get hit.

Riflenades is the german way of urrahing and gettin' a molotov on an hmg, a mortar or a PaK/ Zis-gun. I think that's an important point to make sure we don't say remove the rifle nade.

That being said: the sad thing about them in this patch is that they are way too strong. I don't think they increased the reach, it's just that they kick ass, you do not have be smart to even kill a whole 6men-squad sometimes.

What to do now?
If you sense a riflenade, reposition MVGame

1) spread maximsquad-members or
2) decrease power of riflenades to what it's bben like in previous patches or
3) decrease the area where it affects
4) give Maxim more squad members and lower reinforce cost Kappa

I'm sure Relic's gonna fix that somehow, we have to wait for the next patch

Really sounds interesting! I'd love to see that working; if you want to add me on Steam (InsanePriest as well) and let us give it a try =)

There is a huge gap between partisans and irregulars. First of all different doctrines, secondly their manpower, their equipment and lastly where they can spawn.
Since you said you mean irregulars we should use their name to not get confused

Irregulars cost about 180mp and spawn from the ordinary spawn points, where everything else like conscripts, support teams or tanks do as well. They are equipped with an lmg, either the german or the soviet one.

+ pros:
+ firepower
+ price (you can merge them with conscripts and save 2mp per model )
+ good performing anti-infantry nade
+ anti-tank nades (same you gotta upgrade for cons)

- cons:
- health; since they're using lmgs, try to use conscripts as a meatshield before them or stay on distance to not suddenly lose 3 guys in like 4 seconds. Make sure to stay away from enemy blobs, cuz they're gonna die quickly
- clumping; partisans come with 4 models, all quite close together, what makes them extremly vulnerable to nades and mortars (!) and tanks like P4 and Tiger
- veterancy; I am not entirely sure about this, but I guess in late game irregulars won't have such boosts as grenadiers or other german infantry forces do, what makes them worse then

- no call-ins; in this patch a lot of people just want to skip the expensive teching and call in something big instead, like the IS-2. Think this should be mentioned as well, but if you like teching and using the cons-repair for T34s or whatever: do it! =)

Note: at the moment irregulars are cheaper than Osttruppen - isn't that ridiculous?

Trying to figure something working out. I always hated the nasty sniper play, though I use it more often in this patch to face almighty grens.

G43s do not work that well on distance anymore, do they? I thought they'd perform a lot better when you are close now.
Camo is indeed a smart idea, though I guess it's really hard to do it in practice.

- Since you're looking for a no-doctrinal-solution you really might try one or two mortars and hope you get a lucky shot - try using barrage where they might be or might go.
- Or try to put up a good flank, what most likely won't work against cautious players.
- Or really try to get a quick t2 up and set up a flank with scout cars, defeating guards with pgrens.

That being said I recognize, that all my ideas were already mentioned
To add smth else: go fast t4 and get a panzerwerfer MVGame

Update: you are probably reffering to 1v1s. Though in 2v2s MG-upgraded bunkers can help