Mobile Defense is so far the best way to deal with them cause of the Puma and Osttruppen call-ins. Early M5 ♥♥♥♥♥ Ostheer complete up,Schrecks get pinned before in range and Paks get counterd by Su-76. Why? It's earlies avaiable,can spot by it's own,has more range,shoots faster(than the Pz.4) has the faster reverse and it's much cheaper. Tech is now extremly expensiv,all their non-doctrinal light vehicles suck against their allied counters(appart from 222 vs M20), they need ammo for good counters,they relai heavy on combined arms,they have overall the smallest squads, they have the most expensiv Tech of all factions. HMG in T0 was one of the worst things that could happen.

Only USF gets counterd by OKW's earlygame. In 2vs2 is this Faction much stronger with soviet teammates. However they lack good combined arms and often relai on captured weapons for this. USF have the best starting infantry with Rifleman,sending them in pairs to flank and cover each other for solid firepower,Rear echelons as Scouts and later as Zookabit****,M20 great and versataille vehicle. Maxime counters Kübel,Volks and Sturmpios. OKW has decent counters against this,but they lack indirect fire against fortified soviets,Soviets earlygame beats everything OKW can do. You will also swim in ammo,what allows for tons of explosives.

Winning with soviets is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy,no real MP bleed,no disadvantage,T3 is cheap as fu**,M5 outranges Schrecks,Su-76 outranges Stugs and it's ability can counter both Pak's and Motars and the T-70 is infantry sniper.Looses are nothing serious,since most stuff is so cost effective and/or cheap that you realy don't have to care about this. SU>OKW>USF>Ostheer based on 2vs2 experience.

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