This a new question and unrelated, but kinda. I have noticed that all the Russian troops, when defending from a building, are not right to the front of the building, but are almost always back some, into the building, seemingly to use it the same way, a unit would use woods for cover ' getting more cover for being back further into it'. Is this what the AI is doing, and is it a valid tactic, as in, will my forces get better protection from being back into the building a couple metres? it doesn't seem to help them much, but I am now applying liberal doses of HE to any place where Russians are even suspected to be, which is working wonders.
Another question. To me, it seems that in CM the only real unit cohesion is up to the platoon level, beyond that Company and battlion commands only really seem to be good for the 'extras', commanding spotters and heavy weapons teams. Is there any point to keeping units cohesively united, above the platoon level?
Right now all my forces are organized by the platoon, with everyone higher acting as gun/ machine gun battery commands. Or as substitute commands, if the Platoon commander eats it.