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Basically the German AI just puts out too many infantry units to be managed by Conscripts and Maxims and Penals. And they need to be able to use support weapons to augment their infantry, something they can't really do because of rifle grenades. If the 'Soviet horde versus German precision' theme is to prevail, the Soviets need to be able to leverage numbers into a threat, which is not the case right now. In general Soviet infantry could do with more health and armor and better accuracy against AI units. Rifle grenades should not be so consistent at killing off Soviet squads. IMO the key to all this is to modify the German AI some so that it makes more of a variety of units, instead of just spamming grenadiers until a Panther can be brought out. So your shock troops are able to run around easily with no real threats, giving you plenty of room to get SU-85's or T-34/85's out to give you anti-armor superiority. Shock troops' weakness is their lack of anti-armor ability, but the current AI very rarely builds Brummbars, and I don't think I've seen an Ostwind in quite a while. Suddenly you can neutralize every grenadier and flamer pioneer on the map with ease, and take control of the map. The T-34/85 is currently pretty crazy at killing multiple German infantrymen with one cannon hit.Īnyway, when using shock troops the difference is massive. SU-85's and conscripts with AT grenades is a very potent combination. Soviet armor IMO is ok though it requires you to be rather one-dimensional and just use SU-85's-all other armor is too flawed. Guards are neither good AT or anti-infantry units, despite the fact that they are very powerful anti-infantry units when the AI uses them. Maxims are out of the question, penals and conscripts and engineers are very weak considering their cost, snipers require a ton of micromanagement. So basically Soviets have no real anti-infantry threat against the AI, other than shock troops. So this means Maxims are useless and other units like conscripts and penals, who need to stand still firing their rifles to slowly whittle down enemy health, are constantly at great danger from a rifle grenade, especially when bunched up. There is a huge difference in rifle grenade power when a German player uses them against Soviet AI-they may kill one man, or damage 10% of the entire unit's health, but very rarely will they kill 3 or 4 men or knock off most of the health of the unit. Foot infantry can at least charge in to avoid them, but Maxims are sitting ducks and are made pretty useless. They have a very long range and are so powerful and accurate that they kill or greatly damage any unit hit by one. The AI is very aggressive about using them and will use them in pretty much any encounter with infantry. The main problem IMO for a lot of Soviet infantry units is grenadier rifle grenades. Compared to the Soviet AI it's really very one-dimensional. I know a lot of this is the underlying philosophy of the game-Soviet horde against German precision-but it feels a bit too imbalanced right now for that concept to work.īasically the German AI right now is very simplistic, and will basically pump out a lot of Grenadier units until it can put out a Panther or a Tiger. The main problem is the way that non-shock troops play against the German AI-they are all very weak and die easily. So I have a LOT of fun playing this game.Įxcept when I play Soviets with a commander without shock troops, then I just want to tear my hair out. The Germans are a lot of fun to play against because the Soviet AI feels really challenging but fair. Right now the game is really balanced nicely compared to past versions, and I'm having a lot of fun playing it. Generally I just play on Hard, Expert is just too chaotic for me to be fun. We had some good feedback about playing non-online skirmishes against the AI a couple months ago, and I'd like to keep any further discussion civil and useful.įirst of all I only play COH2 in skirmish games against the AI, and only 1v1 games.

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