Requesting suggestions on how to tackle certain axis units as a soviet player.

Hello reader, playing as soviets is fun, it's quite interesting as well but I am unable to use their full might to my advantage. Namely in response to the threats axis pose to me as follows:

How to tackle a wehrmatch Pak-40?

It's each to own axis infantry and make a bitch out of a Stug IV or Panther with the soviets with Zis-2's and SU-100's but I can huge amounts of problems every time a Pak appears and starts to oppress my tanks from long distance. Problem is, I don't know how to reach them to take care of them without taking many infantry losses and bringing in Stalin's organ in numbers is quite expensive and it is hard to do if I have to keep reinforcing my Riflemen. So what do people suggest?

How to tackle a Panzer Elite mortar halftrack?

The 2nd issue I have is every time a mortar halftrack creates an artificial hale from behind a wall of German Stugs or such. I don't know how to destroy a mortar halftrack, I can't approach it with Zis-2's since they can't get to it in time before the half track reduces it to rubble. The Zis needs to pummel the stugs and my riflemen need to kill all nearby infantry. I can't do it since like I said my Zis gets blown up by the halftrack.

Any suggestions?

You mean conscripts?

Pak-38's are easy to take care of, the mortar or sharpshooter should do the trick. If you are still having problems the sharpshooter's arty can make a quick fix of it.

Strelky en masse can handle it too. Remember, the crew is of 3 people and the other guy only has a pistol. Kill 2/3 and the gun's history. (Though if you want it COMPLETELY gone, you'll have to destroy the gun using tank hunters, a mortar, or said arty.)

Im more traditional player that generally avoids sniper teams unless its the game calls for it.

so all you need is command squad strelky and some conscipts. if you have good micro u can flank and overrun axis easily. drop command arty barrage on secondary mg positions or blobs. and you win

also the soviet blob can swarm and shoot halftracks do death with their small arms. same thing for paks. you dont have to be too creative with combined arms but the more u have the easier it will be.

as good as strelky with ppsh are there is no substitue for guard squads late game. none
they vet very fast and quickly become strongest infantry on the field

Tanks themselves can easily beat lone paks by charging and flanking them. T90s are especially good at beating Paks and will kill them in just a couple seconds. If they haven't got shrek support you can easily bypass them.

When I said Riflemen I meant Strelky I just don't like calling them that, since it's a pretty retarded name for Riflement, it's incorrect, translating shooter (1) into Russian gives strelok (1), translating back gives Archer. If I meant conscripts or guards, I'd have called them that.

Also, what you guys suggested, I already do, that is how I take my casualties constantly, however my mortars don't reach the enemy paks or destroy the mortar halftracks. I'll try using snipers next time I play, see how it fares.

My tanks are always beaten by the pak's so I'll not deploy them, similarly, they don't hit, they almost always miss, and flanking results in being hit by anti tank infantry or stugs, and the deployment of T90 is costly given their effectiveness. T-90's also all crap.. They rarely ever hit infantry, all they do is suppress.

Last edited April 12, 2011 at 12:02 AM by Pathfinder777

Strelok is the singular of Strelky in Russian...

T90s are very good. They will demolish pak crews from most directions. They don't deal suppression anymore.

Any timetable for Oshtheer being available? 

Why is this game not sold?  I would have bought it?  Frankly, I can't figure out the business model behind COH.  I teach business at a university and I would make some major changes to the business behind COH - free market economics works if you sell something people want and I think people would pay for Eastern Front once it is finalized.  Anyway, this is likely not the place to discuss this issue, but I tossed it into the conversation anyway. 

By the way, I can't find people to play when I go multiplayer.  What is up?  Are most of the active people in Europe or Asia (I live in the USA). 

Tiger80 wrote:
Any timetable for Oshtheer being available? 

By the way, I can't find people to play when I go multiplayer.  What is up?  Are most of the active people in Europe or Asia (I live in the USA). 

The Ostheer is not done yet... but heres a link:
http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?topic=5771.0;topicseen

Eastern Front is notoriously known to have no one on the servers running when you come on... Have you tried signing up for automatch night? Try posting a request here:
http://easternfront.org/forums/index.php?board=69.0