hattori

As I said before, I'm still pretty new to this game. I'm also going back and forth on Red Thunder as I have a pretty deep interest (again, relatively new, the past couple years) in the eastern front ww2 history. I'm still playing QBs, so I am aware the AI doesn't come close to matching another human. That all said, I was wondering if my unit purchase would be considered a little 'gamey'. First off, I'm playing as the Russians. I was annoyed with what I thought was poor unit selection by the computer, so I picked a veteran U.S. armoured rifle company to go up against. I also gave them a uav, 3 155s, 2 platoons of 120mm mortars, and an extra javelin team. All bradley's are ERA only, the Abram's platoon I believe are all APS. I *think* that's a reasonable defensive force. As for my force, I ended up picking and really editing the Russian tank battalion (the one with companies that feature 3 tank platoons and one rifle platoon). As a final purchase I ended up with 2 tank companies (I have a total of 21 T90 AMs), a battery of 152, a battery of 122, 2 SU-25s, 1 Tunguska, 2 Khrizantemas, and 2 zalas. I am VERY infantry light (the large random map is pretty open, 2 small villages, a few patches of woods here and there). I've ditched all the BMPs and infantry that regular came with the battalion and gone with 6 scouts under the 1st company's infantry platoon, and 4 AT14 and 4 AG 30s in 2nd company's infantry platoon. Oh yes, I picked up 1 more forward observer with the last of the points. Again, it's just the AI, but 20 min in and I've destroyed half his bradleys and my only casualties are one wounded ATGM team (although I pushed my Tunguska out to rip into an infantry squad, and the last turn ended with a javelin headed straight for it, sigh, one day I will learn patience). Considering how bad I normally am with the Russians, I'm pretty satisfied with how this started. Used a ton more smoke to isolate a key piece of terrain, lots of scouts to get spots in that isolated area and overwhelming numbers of tanks on individual targets and area fire around them. Anyways -- I was just wondering if this force make up would be considered 'gamey' if I were to ever play another person, or also, if this is something that would only work on the AI, as a human is not going to let me meticulously go around destroying his defense one small piece at a time.

I'm extremely new to Combat Mission, so take whatever I have to say with a grain of salt. I've been looking through these messages these past couple of weeks -- I've personally had a lot of problems using Russian forces against the U.S., so Sublime, I would be very interested in what you have to say. You've made endless references that most people are using the Russians incorrectly, but all I've managed to piece together from your posts is to buy lots of ATGMs, use a stripped down BTR-82A batallion with T-90AMs on defense, and use BMP2s with T-90AMs when attacking. And play with no APS house rules So please, I'd love to hear your opinion on tactics, what works for you, what you think people are doing wrong and how they should fix it. I personally have severe difficulty dealing with how well the U.S. spots my forces (that and Javelins). All I ask is you take your time when writing it. In fact, write your thoughts first in a word doc of some sort, and correct all the red spelling mistakes -- I mean no offense, but sometimes with your spelling, punctuation, and lack of paragraphs it is a bit of a chore to parse what you're trying to say.