[updated 22 July 2023]
Theater of War Mission Pack: Operation Barbarossa
Mission: General Winter
This 2 v 2 mission involves snow and cold, which severely hampers movement for your infantry, so you will want some armor. You share the defense of one VP on your side of a frozen river, and there are two other VPs on the other side of the river. It’s a slow-paced mission, but good for a newb because it’s hard to lose.
Right base (default)
Very basic strategy here. For the first 10-15 minutes, all you have to do is cap/guard the near-side VP and two other near-side points on the riverbank, keep your infantry from freezing to death, and build up your forces until you have a couple of KV-1s or T-34s. Note that there are two uncrewed 251s at the start—one at the middle VP, the other at the muni point to its E. You want to crew them and use them to carry your squads.
When your tanks are ready, assemble most of your force on the riverbank near the farthest E territory point on your side of the river. One penal squad can stay behind to guard the middle VP, another the muni point to the E of that VP.
Your assault force should charge across the frozen river, tanks in the lead, and cap the right VP. You will have to battle some gren, panzergren, and pio squads, but you should make short work of them.
After that, you should set up a solid defense of that right VP, fend off (generally weak) attacks on it, and maybe use one tank and a scout car with penal squad to rove around capping nearby points. Usually it’s not hard to go all the way to the German base and start pounding on their base buildings. Your CPU-ally might even get there ahead of you. But by this time you should have all three VPs, so the German victory ticker should run quickly down to zero.
Left base
Same strategy, essentially: Take your half of the near-side riverbank while helping out at the middle VP; wait till you have tanks; then go across and take the upper left VP.
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