Hence you need an elite doctrinal inf, and shock troops are the best there. Coordinate with your teammates, place mines, whatever.įor commanders, ever since the game launched and indeed for a good while after that I'd swear by Shock Rifle:ġ) Soviets don't have any good non-doctrinal inf, conscripts are only good as meatshield, penals are only viable until grens get their mg42s or obers appear, afterwards they're only good as an AT squad. So you really need to rely on combined arms a lot to survive through late game. Your AT guns are worse than german Pak40s either because Soviets was never designed as a defense faction. SU85 struggles at penetration from the front and lacks the mobility to outflank anything - so is only good at ambushes. T34-85 is doctrine locked and even then loses to a Panther 1v1 unless you have numbers on your side and penals support. That's because your T34-76 is a joke and only good against inf (which is absolutely non-issue as Soviets to begin with).

Late game you'll always struggle dealing with Panthers and german heavies. Soviets really don't scale that well into late game. Don't listen to 1v1 elitist above, 4v4 team games are where all the fun and memes at.

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