Russia
Posted: Thu Jan 19, 2023 10:30 pm
From what I have read, the summer of 1942 is still an issue in terms of the Soviets surviving. I have played 2 PBEM game with a friend who is the same skill level as me and in both games the Soviets collapsed in the summer of 42 due mainly to encirclements. We have just started a new game with the latest update so Soviet tank and mech will have 7 ops in March 42.
Strategy suggestions that I have seen are only building infantry corps until the spring of 41 after which you build armies. Secondly, try to position your lines so that German units have to move at least one hex before entering a ZOC to reduce the number of ops they have for attacks and advances. Thirdly try to maintain a second line behind the first. Fourth, move air units back so they are out of range of German air. In my last game I had my air attacking Finnish ground units to gain experience. I also deployed a number of coastal defence units on the Leningrad front and in Crimea and the Straits of Kerch.
It appears to me that it is important to keep the Finns from taking the hex adjacent to Leningrad. I am debating about defending hexes 185,78 186,79 and 185,77 with tank units and the infantry army that starts in Leningrad. I would also place coastal defence units in those hexes if possible. Once the Germans take hex 186,78 it is impossible to move units in and out of the Leningrad port hex.
Any other suggestions or comments would be appreciated.
Strategy suggestions that I have seen are only building infantry corps until the spring of 41 after which you build armies. Secondly, try to position your lines so that German units have to move at least one hex before entering a ZOC to reduce the number of ops they have for attacks and advances. Thirdly try to maintain a second line behind the first. Fourth, move air units back so they are out of range of German air. In my last game I had my air attacking Finnish ground units to gain experience. I also deployed a number of coastal defence units on the Leningrad front and in Crimea and the Straits of Kerch.
It appears to me that it is important to keep the Finns from taking the hex adjacent to Leningrad. I am debating about defending hexes 185,78 186,79 and 185,77 with tank units and the infantry army that starts in Leningrad. I would also place coastal defence units in those hexes if possible. Once the Germans take hex 186,78 it is impossible to move units in and out of the Leningrad port hex.
Any other suggestions or comments would be appreciated.