[updated 28 July 2023]
Theater of War Mission Pack: Operation Barbarossa
Mission: Pripyat River
This is a solo contest against CPU-Germany in 1941, situated (if one takes the mission title seriously) in the same area where the Chernobyl nuclear plant disaster would occur decades later. The map is bucolic and pretty, and, even on General (Hard) difficulty, the Germans are fairly easy to beat.
The simplest, safest strategy is to bring in 4-5 frontoviki squads and use them, and your starting engineers, to establish map control. Your initial priorities should be territory, muni, and fuel points, not VPs, but after 6 or 7 minutes you will often have all but the eastern third of the map under your control, with all the VPs and plenty of fuel. When you do have sufficient fuel, retreat your engineers to base and bring in three KV-1s. Even one of those will give you a significant advantage over the Germans, and two will ensure majority VP control. With three, you can hold all the VPs and territory points and then quickly demolish the German base.
You also can win this one (on points or by base-rush) with conscripts, penals, engineers, GRs, scout cars, and mortar squads—no armor required.
Usually takes about 20 minutes, either way.
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