What are the best or prefered initial build orders?

[vonklaus]

For High Resources Annihilate team games (2vs2and up) games?

Wehrmacht against Soviet
Panzer Elite against Soviet
British Marines vs both axis
Soviet against Wehrmacht

Just looking for peoples opinions to see if I can improve my opening sequences.

Normally as Wehrmacht vs Soviets I go MG, MG, Sniper, Volks, MG, then onto t2 where I normally build 2 mortars then at gun or vice versa.

I need some pointers for scorched earth vs Soviets as Ive been using a mix of Luftwaffe and Antitank but I think scorched earth might be the way to go. I can't find 1 great start as Panzer Elite I can get good starts but I never end up being able to hold as much ground as Wehrmacht because I have to keep more troops together for them to be effective.

My biggest question with the Marines is do I go Comet or Firefly? Is one more cost effective? Comet seems to strug of shells but it seemed like my friends are having better luck with Fireflys, do Fireflys have longer firing range?

As Soviets I have been going 2 engins, command squad, and then 1 more engins, barracks with first engin and then 3 conscripts, final engin builds weapon support and I normally go for mortars first.

[snailcommando]

To be honest you shouldn't determine your strategy and tactics stiff. After all it's always depends on:

- map
- faction choices and team strategy
- opponents & strategy

and the most important: the current Situation.

@Edit

[...with the Marines is do I go Comet or Firefly?]

RMC can't use the Firefly tank. I haven't played CoH for a while and even so I'm still sure nothing changed.

[RedGuard]

Standard resources is the preferred starting mode

but If i play high resources I'll usually go
 Ingenerey, command squad
support building, medium range support
Red army mustering tent, strelky, strelky, strelky

[GodlikeDennis]

Strelky spam with a sniper team is the most effective high resources Soviet build. As PE it's best to get 4 man squads/MP44s or mortar + PG blob. High resources kinda sucks though so I'm not gonna bother going into the other factions' queues.

RMC can only use the comet. For standard Brits; Comet has shorter range but more health and anti-infantry capability. Firefly is an absolute beast against tanks with a command tank giving them MASSIVE range and reload bonuses but can't hit infantry worth a damn.

[Tiger80]

For High Resources Annihilate team games (2vs2and up) games?

Wehrmacht against Soviet
Panzer Elite against Soviet
British Marines vs both axis
Soviet against Wehrmacht

Just looking for peoples opinions to see if I can improve my opening sequences.

Normally as Wehrmacht vs Soviets I go MG, MG, Sniper, Volks, MG, then onto t2 where I normally build 2 mortars then at gun or vice versa.

I need some pointers for scorched earth vs Soviets as Ive been using a mix of Luftwaffe and Antitank but I think scorched earth might be the way to go. I can't find 1 great start as Panzer Elite I can get good starts but I never end up being able to hold as much ground as Wehrmacht because I have to keep more troops together for them to be effective.

My biggest question with the Marines is do I go Comet or Firefly? Is one more cost effective? Comet seems to strug of shells but it seemed like my friends are having better luck with Fireflys, do Fireflys have longer firing range?

As Soviets I have been going 2 engins, command squad, and then 1 more engins, barracks with first engin and then 3 conscripts, final engin builds weapon support and I normally go for mortars first.

This is a good question, but people seem to be critical of attempts to answer it.  I really liked that the initial COH had websites with build strategies, etc.  It would be nice if EF had a similar website.  I am not talking about a do or die build order, but simply a suggestion for someone that is new to the use of Soviet Union forces.