CMBB v CMAK

[McIvan]

80mm armoured Stugs are immune to Russian 76mm. So is the Tiger. Both of them will handily dominate until 85mm armed Russians come to the party.

KVs dominate early war.

There's a short period where T34/76 M43 dominate anything other than Tigers, because the long 75mm isn't out yet.

Russian infantry is quite hard to deal with pre 1943(?) with it dropping one morale/competency level, eg regular Russians perform like green Germans.

German HMGs rock...but you already knew that.

The 57mm is the only decent Russian AT gun. Try to get your opponent to agree to rarity off in days when one side's armour has a clear advantage....but beware it is of course a double edged sword. You can buy stuff like early 75mm and 76mm AT guns for the Germans, and T34/57, 57mm AT, 6 pdr armed Valentines and SU152 for the Russians. Of course your opponent can now load up on whatever looks good, especially as the Germans.

Russian artillery is actually quite poor. It disperses a lot more than other national artillery. Russian 82mm mortar and 76mm arty spotters are, in my opinion, almost completely useless....they simply can't deliver enough fire to one spot, because of the increased dispersion, to supress anything. They can be used with a degree of sucess if you combine more than one spotter on the same spot, or even better three of them. Also the 120/122mm mortar/arty is ok. I spose. You're still much worse off than with German arty.

Green and conscript Russian spotters don't work very well at responsive fire, especially not for larger calibres, because the delays before rounds arrive is almost prohibitive. Either buy conscript large calbre spotters and pre-plan the fire, OR nothing larger than 120mm mortar fire....maybe 122mm if you can afford a reg/vet spotter and a long wait.