<r> In my pbem games I often go for sea lion as well, but the WAL can easily stop that if they dont get too crazy in Africa.<br/>
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Since a proper sea lion in WaW requires german production of transports, I just figure that they made proper landing craft in those 6 months instead of the same ...

<t> I prefer the inf/art combo with lots of tech in art. I almost never build militia as the russians. You get a ton when germany invades and those points are better used as tech or improved units. <br/>
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I will often build 2x tactical bmrs to try to take out german artillery. The german ...

The reason you dont need to do it is because you can get most of their resources anyway via trade as long as you have a transport nearby. Sometimes the allies will get some trade when they supply russia.

To answer your related question, always move your transports first the move units. Otherwise transports get fixed in that location and also cannot give the free movement to other transports.