general attacking questions

[Bacillus98]

Hello. I recently picked up some PzC games to see what this war game engine was all about. I am impressed, and it seems rather addicting to say the least! I have skimmed the rules and tried a few solitaire short games in Sicily 43 and Stalingrad 42. Some questions I have are:

1. Are the Sicily landings at Gela (Dime Force) supposed to hurt the Allies badly? Granted its my first few times at the scenario, but when the big red one division lands most of the units are disrupted. It seems to take forever for them to undisrupt, so I cannot assault the paltry Italian coastal units, only use direct fire. Even my paratroopers undisrupt faster than the amphibious landing divisions. This seems to play in the hands of the Goring Division, which only gets closer and closer to the beaches. It's turn 5 and I haven't been able to move any allied units off the beach except for a few that managed to squeeze inland. Total Casualties are around 600, which seems rather high, and this is before the Herman Goring division has showed up. What's the best way as an attacker to approach an amphibious landing and have units undisrupt as fast as possible?

2. How does one attack with Russian Units in the East front games? For example I tried the Uranus scenario. I just wanted to practice attacking the Romanian divisions. A lot of them are in bunkers, which seems suicidal to attack. It seems to me that direct fire for the Russians is not their strong point, so should I only just assault with them? Assaulting undisrupted enemy units hurts very badly, which usually takes the attacking Russian battalion out of the picture at least temporarily. Should I only hammer away with artillery until the strong points w/ enemy units disrupt?

Any help with these questions would be great!