Konev Discussion

My Konev and Arnold always fight on different fronts. The reason for having 4 tank generals is to be able to split your forces into 2 or more groups so that every groups could have the 'assault' ability of the tank. Without the assault tanks are basically just tougher artilleries with no 'firepower'. The crowd tactics can be exploited along with the assault by placing a tank beside, the crowd tactics buff the tank's damage so it can assault more units. So 2 crowd tactics are vital. Besides, Arnold need to be stationed on a city while other units advance. Yes, he moves from city to cities but I can never rely on him for crowd tactics because he can only do one in a time, either the air force or crowd tactics, and it takes time to bring him from the city to other units.

And again, giving plain fighting to Konev is just making him the 2nd Leeb, and it only works on plains while he often fights in other terrains too. Plain fighting in artillery only gives you an addition 25 (37 with medal) per turn, while in a tank it can help the tank to assault and simply produce more damage output per turn.

I personally find Montgomery (who has plain fighting) useful and I'm planing to buy him. Montgomery is equal (if not better) than Rokossovsky. Rokossovsky is better at fighting stronger but least enemies while Montgomery is better at fighting smaller but more enemies + the air support capability. He is somewhat better than Rommel with plain fighting considering his air support capability. Montgomery with AA and rumor is very useful against smaller enemies and is still useful to inflict heavy damages to stronger enemies. And since plain fighting works on cities, he's not that reckless since he can heal in cities while giving nice air supports.