Pros of Finland?

[иo_vo]

Does Finland have any major redeeming factors that make it competitive?

[McKillerroy]

Never played smt else than germany but the fins engineers can build concrete fortifications as far as I know.

[Saxhorn]

What game mode? PvP?

[kampfer91]

Many of theirs infantry squad carry molotov cocktail , the deadliest AT nate in the game .

[struckat]

The Fins are a lot of fun, but I am too tank minded to go far with them. Your best tanks will be captured ones.

The little 50cm mortars are awsome as their rate of fire can make a big difference. Attacking or defending you must deal with less.

Fins are fun, and then I die.

[Saxhorn]

Marksman squad - every soldier in the squad has 8 stars in the rifle skill. So they are extremely accurate. Far more effective at killing other infantry than a MG.

Heavy Engineers - can build naval gun emplacements and pillboxes. Mixed bag in PvP. These sort of defences can'tr be moved and once seen are easily destroyed by artillery or rocket artillery.

As well as lots of molotov cocktails Finnish soldiers also get incendiary grenades.

Finland is fun for Conquest.
The heavy engineer emplacements are excellent on defence and the "engineer squad" is very good value.

The engineer squad has
2 x engineers for building trenches, sandbags etc and both have sticks of TNT.
2 x AT miners
2 x AP miners
2 or 3 other soldiers with a bit of stuff.
In this one squad you basically have everything you want to build your defences.

The 40mm Bofors (ltK/38b) is an excellent weapon overall and Finland gets it mounted in a vehicle (Landsverl L-62) that has decent mobility and some armour. It isn't a "tank" but it performs very well for the unit it is.

The BT-42 has plenty of bang for your buck as well. No armour and a rather slow ROF but when it goes pew pew the boom and bang is BIG. Great for hit and run because it moves pretty fast.

Those are the stand outs for me.

The rest of their "vehicle" units are either German supplied or captured from the Soviets so you can already play those units in the base game.

[someone]

high fire rate anti tank guns
uuh the 84mm infantry support gun is really good and has stupid long range
heavy engineers
marksmen are op
elite snipers i guess

[Saxhorn]

Originally posted by struckat:

The Fins are a lot of fun, but I am too tank minded to go far with them. Your best tanks will be captured ones.

The little 50cm mortars are awsome as their rate of fire can make a big difference. Attacking or defending you must deal with less.

Fins are fun, and then I die.

The 50mm mortar has a fantastic rate of fire but only shoots out to 100m so just about any soldier can shoot back. At 100m you'd better have some screening infantry of the enemy is going to be on top of the mortar in no time at all and then you'll see it in action from the wrong end of the tube.

[иo_vo]

Thanks for the replies. I feel like in PVP they Panzer 4J should probably just be available for all doctrines... They are lacking a lot

[Reno Story]

I feel that, of all the current factions, Finnish infantry are the most well rounded troops in the game, if only due to the fact that they are well equipped for any encounter, even their lower tier units.

Standard grenades, impact grenades, Willy Pete that both acts as a smoke nade and can also be used as a weapon, and all matter of Anti-tank tools in large quantities so you can blow up tanks all day long.

If only more infantry squads were as well equipped as the Fins...

[S0V13T]

There are no pros they're awful in this game use any military but them if you wanna win or enjoy the game

[S0V13T]

Originally posted by Reno Story:

I feel that, of all the current factions, Finnish infantry are the most well rounded troops in the game, if only due to the fact that they are well equipped for any encounter, even their lower tier units.

Standard grenades, impact grenades, Willy Pete that both acts as a smoke nade and can also be used as a weapon, and all matter of Anti-tank tools in large quantities so you can blow up tanks all day long.

If only more infantry squads were as well equipped as the Fins...

Completely false their military is horribly weak

[JE55BUNN1]

Nice nerco we've got going on here....

[underd0g]

Saunas.

[Zhenja1]

Great for defensive and irregular warfare players