How to get the best out of Soviet troops?

[Charles2222]

ORIGINAL: AngryDeemon1

Them are fightin' words Charles.

I think we need a running away smiley for moments like this. It could also serve as tactical advice for fighting with the USSR.

[Rune Iversen]

Win with the soviets? Easy, use T72s [;)]

[FNG]

Playing a long campaign as Soviets at the moment and am doing quite well. For best results when attacking, I pound the area with 120mm mortar fire, then attack with waves of infantry closely supported by armour. By keeping the artillery slightly ahead of the infantry (lifting 100m per turn) you overcome the problems with artillery delay.

I have also recently discovered the usefulness of cossacks/cavalry backed up by light armour to harry your opponent's flanks and cut up his rear echelon units - I have massacred many mortar batteries with the Red horsemen[:)]

[MOTHER]

ORIGINAL: pbhawkins

Hi all,
In a recent game a managed to eliminate a Battalion (28 squads) of conscripts supported by 3 x T-34 and 3 x OT- 34 (flame tanks) with:
2 x panther As, 4 x Stug 40s, 2 x Skdfz 6/2 (20mm quad), 2 x Krupp mounted Engineer platoons (6 squads and 2x MMG 42 squads) and the occassional arty barrage [8D]

pbhawkins

I shall own up as the butcher sending those poor boys to death for the good of mother russia.Unfortunatly the attack was against a defended hilltop steppe hieght 20,accross an open plain with the above mentioned assembly which to balance the ledger had eliminated every krupp truck [with a mounted aamg],3 stugs,1 panther, both sdkfz 6/2,reduced the engineers to a pulp although not erradicated but ineffective.
It was a slaughter, and some units actually made it to the slope of the steppe ,but oberst pb was made to pay.
In the whole context of the game I lost and it was the "sniper elephants" in the end that really did the damage,but boy it was fun[:'(]