Let us reform the Red Army of Workers and Peasants! (Advice needed)

[M60A3TTS]

Thanks Q-Ball, M60 and Wiedrock.

The Axis 1942 offensive took out about 1 Army of my forces. The front line runs roughly from Leningrad to Taganrog with a Eastward bulge South of Tula. I hold kerch.

Most of this line appears rock solid with Axis defensive CV typically > 30. I am not quite certain who to attack, or with what. I try not to move around SUs as it chews up CPP. I am ok at managing trucks.

Perhaps it is just a matter of concentrating my best units with my best commanders.

Does anyone create SUs simply because there is plenty of equipment in the pool?

Exactly what turn are you on?

No, you can't afford to just build units because you have equipment. If you did that, you would drive your vehicle pool into the ground.

[56ajax]

Thanks Q-Ball, M60 and Wiedrock.

The Axis 1942 offensive took out about 1 Army of my forces. The front line runs roughly from Leningrad to Taganrog with a Eastward bulge South of Tula. I hold kerch.

Most of this line appears rock solid with Axis defensive CV typically > 30. I am not quite certain who to attack, or with what. I try not to move around SUs as it chews up CPP. I am ok at managing trucks.

Perhaps it is just a matter of concentrating my best units with my best commanders.

Does anyone create SUs simply because there is plenty of equipment in the pool?

Exactly what turn are you on?

No, you can't afford to just build units because you have equipment. If you did that, you would drive your vehicle pool into the ground.

Next turn is T55, first week of July 1942. The Red Army is large.

I keep an eye on trucks every turn. I can only build 2 more Tank Brigades so I build regiments. I am slowly building Tank Corps. I am 'converting' motorised AA into non motorised. Cav divs and Corps are at max, and so are Rifle Brigades. I can build another 80 RDs up to a max of 460? Art Brigades are at max.

Are AT Rifle Batts or Flame Tank Batts any good?

[M60A3TTS]

Thanks Q-Ball, M60 and Wiedrock.

The Axis 1942 offensive took out about 1 Army of my forces. The front line runs roughly from Leningrad to Taganrog with a Eastward bulge South of Tula. I hold kerch.

Most of this line appears rock solid with Axis defensive CV typically > 30. I am not quite certain who to attack, or with what. I try not to move around SUs as it chews up CPP. I am ok at managing trucks.

Perhaps it is just a matter of concentrating my best units with my best commanders.

Does anyone create SUs simply because there is plenty of equipment in the pool?

Exactly what turn are you on?

No, you can't afford to just build units because you have equipment. If you did that, you would drive your vehicle pool into the ground.

Next turn is T55, first week of July 1942. The Red Army is large.

I keep an eye on trucks every turn. I can only build 2 more Tank Brigades so I build regiments. I am slowly building Tank Corps. I am 'converting' motorised AA into non motorised. Cav divs and Corps are at max, and so are Rifle Brigades. I can build another 80 RDs up to a max of 460? Art Brigades are at max.

Are AT Rifle Batts or Flame Tank Batts any good?

If it's only the start of July 1942, and you're ready to go on the offensive, that's pretty amazing. If you have 119 tank brigades and don't have too many tank corps and are not heavily invested in motorized artillery, you can be ok there with regards to vehicles. Normally there aren't potential vehicle shortages until towards 1943.

The trick here is that to break Level 3 forts you could use the assault engineers, but they aren't buildable for another 9 months or so. That leaves heavy artillery to do the main work. Army Artillery Regiments do the job rather well and so focusing those support units where you want to crack a fort line is a must.

AT rifle bns I don't really use, so can't comment on their value. Flame tanks aren't engineering units, so they have no great value over normal tank units. You can build one flame tank brigade which is a decent enough size if you want it in the game, along with 3 heavy tank brigades once buildable.

[Q-Ball]

TANK SUs in 1942 are a good topic; IMO, Tank Brigades are the way to go, so you are doing fine there. The reason I prefer those is that once they are Guards, you can combine those in December to Guards Tank Corps. (Once they are Guards, just be careful not to leave them open to counterattack; they can be overrun and destroyed by a strong Axis attack. I tend to park them at STAVKA mostly)

If you built SUs up to the equipment limits in the pool, you could theoretically build 100s of Tank Regts, but that's not a good idea; as M60 indicates, that would chew-up alot of trucks. And the way I use TANK SUs (almost always on attack, ,and not attached to Army HQ), you really don't need that many if you have alot of Tank Brigades

I do find the Guards Heavy Tank SUs handy; they only need like 200 men and 25 trucks, so are very efficient units, and have good morale. They can be used very liberally, since you'll have WAY more KV Tanks than you could ever really use. The downside is that the KVs Tanks (the 1942 upgrade) isn't that great; the Soviets removed armor to make it more mobile, to the point that it becomes a slow T-34