[updated 29 July 2023]
Theater of War Mission Pack: Operation Barbarossa
Mission: Minsk
The “Minsk” mission is a bit more challenging than the Pripyat River mission. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can get your force and then your base wiped within 10-15 minutes. The Germans here seem to have “free” access to a lot of extras, and not long into the mission, the map will be swarming with grens, panzergrens, snipers, pios, MG42s, Pak-40s, mortars, mortar halftracks, scout cars and 251s—to be followed soon by StuGs and Panzer IVs. Whether you play from the left (default) base or the right, your initial weak units will begin to be overwhelmed only several minutes in. Even so, for Russia there is a clear and straight path to victory: 1. Bring in 4-5 frontoviki conscripts initially, and use them, with your engineers, to cap points (fuel most important, VPs least important). 2. After five or six minutes, retreat your engineers to base (or call in more engineers) and tech for tanks. 3. Bring in 3-4 KV-1s and use them, first, to get better map control, and second, to hit the German base.
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