Dealing with Werh Sniper as Soviets

[Seeme]

it only takes one, I know it.

[Paciat]

The soviets have soooo much troops, I find it hard for 1 sniper to do much damage. (Unless you use my tatic)

Ive played a regural vanila 1v1 COH game today. Semois map. I went riflespam with nades (no BARs), supply depod, T-17.  My enemy got vet 3 support teams (Snipers, MGs and Flame Pios) and Stormtroopers. Vet 3 snipers fire twice as fast...
I was undergunned with my Garands, still I managed to win.

My point is keep youre support teams behind a wall of Strelky/Command Squad, micro them and youll be fine.

[Seeme]

What dose this have to do with my quote?

[Blackbishop]

What dose this have to do with my quote?

Last time I see, Riflemen have 6 soldiers... that doesn't change anything, sniper counter infantry and weapons teams not the other way around.

[Chancellor]

Snipers don't counter 8 man squads with like 20ish reinforce cost per man very well.  I find buying Hans hard to justify vs Soviets and sometimes even against Americans.  Too many noob squad members to shoot at.

On the other hand, Vasili and Boogey Man are almost always a solid investment against Germans.  At 30-40ish manpower per man and squads with only 3-4 men, Germans are extremely weak against snipers.

[Seeme]

Better to have lots of average normal equipped soldiers then small group of experienced soldiers, I guess.

[wangdalf]

in my experience, the Wehr sniper isn't a great investment against Russians, especially early game.

usually i counter wehr snipers by rushing the great conscript horde at them, in true Enemy at the Gates style, usually forcing the sniper to back up/retreat and possibly plinking off some of his health whilst at it. Russians don't have a hard counter to snipers simply because snipers just arent that effective against the Russian horde.

[Maple]

Someone call Discovery, the MythBuster team has one more myth to crack.



Besides that, I don't find snipers good against the Soviets unless they are going heavy Support Barracks or Ingenery Spam. One shot will take 16/17 manpower off the Russian Team in early game, round 22 if it's the command squad (lulz Imperial Guard in DoW) but it will need 20 shots to balance the resource war.


What I find, The Katusha, Sniper Ace/Partisan Infiltration, or Inspired Speech(the Break Through one which makes inf run faster) Are efficient sniper killers. Sure the Lend Lease Sherman too, but then the sniper would have support by then.

So far the weakest infantry against the sniper is the Ingenery, Conscripts have men, Command Squad have men AND power, and Sharpshooter team has the snipe. Course, the observer might shoot first, but I find the observer do lots of damage if his bullets hit. Also, use the ZiS Support Gun if you're worried about a tank rush. It won't automatically hit infantry, so you have to right click. I did that once, and it 1 shotted a full-health sniper (don't forget, that was luck). Put a strekly squad to reinforce it, or straynfyre (dunno spelling) troops.


Sum it all up : Charge at it with your Red Tide X)