How on earth do you play barbarossa to berlin and actually win? I have read the online strategy guide, the manual, and forums here such as tips and tricks and nontheless each attempt I've made has been a wash.
My guys always get pinned, shaken and even broken and could not hit the broad side of a barn. they also many time don't do what they are asked, such as a simple instruction like contact and hide a little ways through the trees. I had just played a senerio (Gefechtsaufklaerung) as the germans and these guys where totally useless, no matter how much protection and cover and support I gave them. I mean I had like two rifle plats and a machgunner firing at a couple of guys and a mortor (who did seem to know what to do despite his vantage point) all had excellent cover though and where getting pinned and shaken and eventually had one or two of the russians actually charge them down throught the feild and my guys couldn't even hit them; they where right out in the open! and my guys where in the trees with perfect line of sight! In another incident I had a rifle man run at my tank down the hill and he throw a maltiv cocktail and killed one of my men in the tank and rendered it something drastic like "immoble" or ready to evacuate. How did he even have the balls to do this one rifle man how did he even manage to stop my tank and one of the main guys in it?!!! This is just plan silly.
I had high hopes for this game from what I've read about it and what I've played as far as combat mission demos go: afrika corps etc. But after reading other peoples strategies and ways to play this game and aplying them I can see its a very unrealistic and unbalanced game. I don't know maybe you can only win if you are on the defensive or playing another human player, but to be on the offensive and win it takes some kind of to use your expression "gamey" trick something specific to this game not real world tactics definitely not.
Now you can either get cranky and conceited ostracize me and tell me its all my fault I'm a hopeless idiot and don't understand how to play (which isn't true I've read enough on how to play) or give me the main secret that will keep my men from being shaken, panicing, breaking, while under cover the minute they make contact and have heavy long range gunners behind them and where they can actually hit something and kill it -maybe there's a patch I don't know about, everthing seems a mystery about this game the guides are full of strategies that seem plausibly and in theory would work well in a real work situations but don't actually when aplied in this game.
Also, I tryed the renowned veteran jasonC's tactics for beating the germans in jaegermeister as well as the manuals advanced tutorial and guess what...: it doesnt work! You playing a different game my friend? ( your russians will panic no matter and there simply isn't enough turns and they always see you even hiden way down in the hills; going all the way to the left is too long with too many trees that your tanks can't get through-I've tryed ever possible route through there) maybe it does with something else I don't know about-like a patch or the editor- but really it is impossible.
I'm not trying to "flame" or be a "troll". but does anyone in this forum have the balls to say something they don't like about this game- has anyone ever? About some of the obvious stuff such as I've mentioned in this post.