Kriegsimulation review

[Nibelung44]

Or should I say, praises! ?

http://kriegsimulation.blogspot.com/201 ... th-of.html

Little excerpt:

Revolution Under Siege showcases all the ingredients that were used for the Soviet recipe of operational art. First, the realization that for a country with not enough troops to cover a long frontier, it will be impossible to assemble a single strategic offensive with the majority of the Red Army. A single strategic offensive in the form of a battle of annihilation was replaced by successive offensives carefully choreographed as to impact the enemy the most. That choreography was born out of necessity and is in essence operational art. "Eshelonaia voina", the use of troops in the offensive as they arrived from distant points via the railroad gave the Red Army military theorists the food of thought for what later will become an almost religious belief in the echeloning of troops. Concentrating troops at the point of the offensive was just the beginning, the issue of how to use them in battle was vital. There the Red Army realized that the attack and penetration of enemy defenses was no small feat. The penchant for "shock armies" that would deliver a narrow cut and a deep penetration of the enemy front would become a staple of the Red Army during World War II. The sore experience of a long, treacherous and thin front line of the Russian Civil War convinced the Red Army that preferably no segment would be left untouched and that if no "shock" troops were available in a front, the regulars would have at least to cooperate to the offensive with a penetration and shallow envelopment. The years following the Russian Civil War were ripe with military thought. Frunze, Tukhachevsky, Shaposhnikov, Kamenev, Triandafillov, you name it. No military doctrine comes from a vacuum. It all comes from campaign experiences. Revolution Under Siege is a premier display of all the issues that shaped modern Soviet military thought.

[SlickWilhelm]

Yep, I agree. In fact, with RUS I've finally figured out the AGE engine and how to play it. I struggled with AACW, but RUS really opened my eyes to the strengths of the engine.

I'm playing the Ice March campaign right now, and it's a lot of fun trying to guess  where the Reds are going to strike next. I'm actually taking the fight to them, and doing well so far. But I fear a massive Bolshevik counter-attack somewhere, and soon.

[pvthudson01]

Let me know your secret ?

Heh I still struggle with it