Profile of maskedmonkey2

Rely on the swarm, although blobbing isn't generally a great tactic, the lack of mgs is the biggest weakness I have seen.

A gren blob will tear up any m3s that come within any sort of range.

Hell, a group of pios if allowed to get within melee distance will make quick work of an m3. They really aren't that big of a deal.

I don't buy into the notion that a doctrinal counter to a doctrinal unit is inherently unfair. With that being said, a real flank of the tank will render it useless fairly quickly, (unlike the 1 million t34/76 shots required to take down an elephant.) I also don't accept the contention that the ISU-152 is unflankable when supported, so far as I can tell, setting up a good combined arms army that is lethal as well as able to defend itself is more or less the point of the game.

SU85 is always nice to have, but I feel its a little expensive to go T4 for heavy AT, when the shermans main role is AT.


For me, I feel its nice to go really aggresive, with fast T34s, then shermans to back them up. This gives a really mobile tank force, with a little more bite than normal. And where Shermans begin to struggle, youve got ram on hand then. And yeah, Id back this with probably one ZiS.

Doing this makes great use of spare munis/ fuel ability.

Only the M5 call in is kind of a waste, but maybe its still worth it for the guards.

I couldn't disagree more, I've been using this doc for the past few days and I build scripts for early game, until 2cp and I get a Dshk or two. go t2 for mortars and zis, to provide some AT to make up for the slight delay in getting t4 armor out, Then I build SU-85 to fill the AT role. My shermans (upgunned with the 50 cal.) roll in front of the crew to draw out/engage panthers and the like and let the su-85(s) Do the heavy lifting.

I really dont see much of an advantage to building t-34 as they have the same caliber main gun (76mm), though im not sure about the game stats. It seems like a t-34 with more AI and less AT use due to lack of ram.

Also, the upgunned M5 is amazing and is constantly wiping the floor with infantry blobs. Nothing makes me happier than being able to chase down a shrekd pgren squad on retreat! I find the upgunned m5 useful throughout the entire game, they are a great way to protect your su-85s from pgrens and can also pop forward now and then to decrew enemy weapons and even lure in some enemy armor to SU-85 range.

tl;dr
I really like this doctrine, and M5 is awesome.

I believe I have watched just about all of them, and the most comprehensive I have seen is The 1970s series The World at War, it's long, but awesome.

Am I the only one that feels like some of the responses over this come off as pretentious?

It's pretty obvious that this patch negatively effected the Soviet side and as a result some strategies are going to have to change, as a result of that people are going to ask about what to change, and although use cover is useful advice (albeit an elementary concept), a large L2P isn't very constructive.

My opening was always to sprint my engineer to cap a point from the beginning and build scripts to immediately back them up, but that is now terribly innefective because pios will just rush and crush just about any infantry. My best advice is to cap where they aren't at the very beginning. You will lose ground this way (but hopefully get it back). The defensive doctrine with the DSHK and the 45mm at gun seems to be fairly effective. I make a wall of them and progressively leapfrog my way up to take control of the map. Scripts for me have been downgraded to cheap reinforcements and not a very useful fighting force.