u/ExplanationMany9348

Since heavy weapons company doesn't require support equipment and most support companies don't actually require equipment, you can make this funky template that has great stats and only costs guns (and aa if you choose to use it as a regimental company). That means this 35 width div costs only:

1593.9 IC if gun3

1339.8 IC if gun2

1155 IC if gun1

Practically free for the combat effectiveness you get in turn. Who needs tanks or special forces to push? Just use inf!

Yes, this is an exploit but maybe it's just me, but I don't think you should be able to use flame tanks without flame tanks. Ya know?

For more information, read this. Have a lot of manpower but no IC? Go all in on gun, it just works.

This is the most competitive vanilla server rn.

Vanilla mod (HMM) that doesn't change production, tech, or anything like that

Really shows how bloated the game has gotten. Germany with their focus tree + best MIOs in the game has 150% cap on their tank lines. Produced 100k base tanks by jan 41, then converted all of those tanks to real tanks by july 41

This div is 6703 IC total (ignore the estimated prod cost, it's not taking into account the cheaper amtrack). If I cheapened out (used reg engineer instead of armored engineer, cheaper light tank), it goes down to 6400 ic. For a div with 1k soft, 800 break, and almost 500 hp. Oh, and almost full special forces buffs.

For reference. Yes, state pagan USSR that worships Perun.

pdx please

Yes, everything must be a heavy tank destroyer. Blame years of dlc adding more and more bloat.

Yes, this is serious. 2.8 ic amtrack go brrrrrrrr. This div is now only 5300 IC whereas before it would've been 12k IC.

By comparison, the old mnt marine/mech marines were 3k-3500 ic each. Yes, a full amtrack div is now only 60% more expensive than a proper marine.

Seems like not enough of a nerf lol

I know the Red Army was not capable of offensive operations at this time (like in Finland), but let's assume Stalin had a vision of the future and went all in anyway.

Meaning no Four Pests Campaign, no Sino-Soviet split, no Cultural Revolution, and no Great Leap Forward.

In OTL the Soviets ran the world's largest biological warfare program dating back to the 1920s. They never used it, but what if, fearing that they would lose the war in December 1941, they actually did?

No waiting for an entire year for partial mobilization and he doesn't try to shield Moscow/Saint Petersburg from the war but instead puts 30% of the Russian gdp into the military?

drowning asia in steel raaaah production cost