Fighting USA as the Red Army

[Artur]

Long time since I've been here...

I am guilty of creating those scenario series .

The map is as I find a typical Germany country terrain. There are several versions of the same Cold-War situation. A Tank division had mostly tanks so I maintained the same ratio.

Mobhack has excellently summed up how to fight as Russians against US.

I would only add the following (SPOILER ALERT):
-Check your air assets. There are some wild weasel planes, use them to scout the US air defense.
-Neutralize with Artillery+planes the air defenses detected.
-Send in the rest of your planes to soften up US resistance and scout their layout.
-Keep up the artillery pressure.
-Carefully start using the helicopters after you knocked out most of US air defense
-Proceed with land forces as Mobhack implied.
-Be ready for taking losses .

[DRG]

Hello Artur !.....long time indeed.

Don

[Aeraaa]

@Artur: Hello to you my friend and thanks for the excellent scenarios you've made.Though I've finished the scenario with a marginal victory with about 400+ men and 100 AFVs lost (the filthy capitalists lost about 900 men and 75 AFVs), your points will be considereed for future games with the Soviet army (some of them have been already used like the massive use of artillery, especially around victory points). I also liked the 1946 scenario, although there is no contest there, Soviets just sweep their opposition very easily (thanks to the almost invurnerable JS-3s...)

[Firestorm]

Originally Posted by Aeraaa

...besides as former infantryman I dont want to waste hundreds of dirtleg lives.

That's very noble, but perhaps one of the reasons you're having so much trouble is because you're operating a WP force with a NATO mindset? The Reds were more than willing to see an infantry battalion wiped out if it meant a position could be taken with minimalized losses to more expensive assets, and it's going to be very hard to get the full potential out of them without suffering heavy casualties.