Company of Heroes 2: Soviet Commander - Counterattack Tactics Review (Jet)
Shocks troops - Useful, as usual
Recon flight - Also very useful, as its a long flight and can be used in coordination with allies to plan good an effective assualt
For Mother Russia - By the time you unlock this, the battles are mostly armored, and infantry are mainly used for capture. It can be a nice way to burn munitions, though.
B4 Howitzer - used to be good. But in a recent update, they ruined it. Instead of being the amazing weapon that, with one veterancy was capalbe of a precision strike, the B4 howitzer misses everything. They nerfed it so bad, that you need 1 vet to use the direct fire. Useless.
KV-1 Heavy tank - Kinda ineffective once you get it rolling. If you can rack up command points with the shock troops, then you can have it early and destroy your enemy. Once they get panthers, you need like 3 KV-1's to hound one to death. The gun is OK, and the armor is nice, but the gun bounces panzer IV's all the time, so it's not useful against armor. You can use it in a 1V1 against the OKW nicely, but in large games its useless against a panther
Do i reccomend it? Kinda. I enjoy Urban defense a lot more, and the Partisan tactics look nice (never tried them). This doctrine is sorta like a weaker shock-army doctrine. It's not worth sacrificing the IS-2 and "Fire barrage" For the recon flight and howitzer (since the 203 is useless now). It was a bad buy, and I hope you fellow buyers won't make the same mistake. Remember, all the good things said about the howitzers in the earllier reveiws are a lie. It has changed. (So I guess its not a lie, just not updated)