I wanted to see if there are any generally accepted guidelines for PBEM play? One I live by is to not call artillery or air into what may be my opponent's setup area during the first turn.
A purely hypothetical question speaking as a person who has never even played Cold War until now. The question is not based on my first ever Cold War PBEM. Definitely not.
So I believe doctrine says Soviets don't dismount infantry for recon (they're probably in too much of a hurry). And they don't unbutton. Would I be gamey doing either of these games? Hypothetically.
The avoidance of recon by death is on my mind. How un-Soviet.