LC-

I just purchased Black Sea today and started with the first 3 smallest missions.  The first mission gathering the intel from the knocked out vehicles played like all the other CMs I have so it was a pretty easy victory for me.  Had one wounded and destroyed all other enemy personnel on the field.  I even had one wounded by the knocked out vehicle in the middle of the field and had a Medal of Honor moment and sent my men back into the fray to get him medical attention.
Second mission "Going to town" I got my butt handed to me.  As in my scout/sniper team took 3 steps out of cover and got destroyed, so I moved some of the AFVs up and they both got lit up without so much as looking around.  Ended the mission there thinking I needed practice with modern day Russian equipment.  
Mission 3.  The night one with an American platoon? hunting a few AAA vehicles.  Look at map and think...easy.  Got a sweet little creek to follow with cover, got a scout team ahead already, this should get my pride back up.  NOPE!  I cannot for the life of me move my guys up close enough, even in the dark (night vision perhaps) to even see the third launcher let alone get a coordinated three shots at the same time ambush on them.  
So really, thank you BFC!  I have been gone from the game (again sadly) because I had just lost my love for the game because I had I guess figured out the A.I.  Took a shot in the dark that Black Sea was different and I wasn't disappointed.  I am going to have to learn my tactics all over again and I love it!
Side note, any tips for this one guys?  Such a noob question but this isn't WWII anymore and I cannot get my men close without getting shot to pieces.  Im guessing I need to learn to stay way back for this modern stuff?

I often wondered about repayment from the Soviet Union after the war, being as the two counties quickly became enemies. Found this little bit interesting :

"While repayment of the interest free loans was required after the end of the war under the act, in practise the US did not expect to be repaid by the USSR after the war, it received $2m in reverse lend lease supplies from the USSR mostly in the form of landing, servicing and refueling of air freight although some industrial machinery along with rare minerals were supplied. The US asked for $1.3bn at the cessation of hostiliities to settle the debt but was only offered $170m by the USSR, the dispute remained unresolved until in 1972 the US accepted an offer from the USSR to repay $722m linked to grain shipments from the USA with the remainder being written off. During the war the USSR provided an unknown number of shipments of rare minerals to the US Treasury as a form of cashless rerepayment of Lend-Lease supplies agreed before the signing of the first protocol on 1 October 1941 and extension of credit, some of these shipments were intercepted by the Germans the light cruiser HMS Edinburgh was sunk in May 1942 carrying 4.5 tonnes of gold to the US Treasury meanwhile the steamer Port Nicholson was sunk in June 1942 while sailing from Halifax, Canada to New York while carrying $43m in platinum (worth $3bn in today's prices) along with 10 tonnes of gold and industrial diamonds." -Albert L. Weeks, Russia's Life-Saver: Lend-Lease Aid to the U.S.S.R. in World War II, 2004 New York, Lexington

Lets go find those ships fast! Who can scuba dive?

edit: Seems they have been salvaged already. Dang there goes my get rich quick scheme of the day.