Points for Assault battle ?

[Imp]

I did actually say in game terms you should ignore the deep defence part because it will not work against a human player as his command & control is far better. But the principle can still be used at shorter range which was I believe the orthodox way to do it, encircle the encirclar or counter attack the flag force. Letting them run deeper means you need great confidence in destroying as your support assets are now at risk. But its also pssible to inflict very high loses.
Generalising but the Germans had very good C&C & the squad leaders knew the objectives & were quite capable of adapting to the current situation to achieve them. The Russians however had a very poor C&C structure & most of the force would have no idea of the goals so just followed the initial orders. They were therefore slow to adapt to changes on the battlefield & if you could kill a few decent ranking commanders it was pretty much game over. The Germans were nearly always outnumbered & 3:1 was considered normal but due mainly to the ability to react it was not a problem. Verses a player playing them like Germans it would be. Look at the losses on the respective sides or even between Russia & Finland.
Against Britain (& the USA once they got their act together) they found they had a new & dangerous adverery who they could not simply out manouvre.

If you dont belive the above look at something like Kursk where the Germans attacked unaware they were heavily outnumbered. Despite this & the huge number of mines they managed to advance & when finally admitted it was to much they had managed to kill nearly 3 times as many as they lost.
It probably was the beginning of the end because they could not afford those loses but Jesus what a war machine just how did they manage it.

Can we leave this now I was only stating historicaly you are wrong as a game tactic it is the most sensible choice but if you wanted to be realistic using this tactic very very rarely would you have any armour at all & if did would most likely be StuGs. It is however just a game as Kursk proved & stated in other posts here attacking with those odds is suicide.
Playing Germans versus the AI outnumbered 3:1 might actually be a more realistic representation!!