S41 : Making the jump out of bootcamp

[Mr Grumpy]

I've given up. Played the Mogilev River Crossing scenario with the Soviets. Tried to evacuate my center to more favourablr grounds, with units on my flanks, and after 7 turns my whole center find itself isolated and out of supply. Pocketed, with no way out.

I really need pointers on how to play the Soviets. They are brittle as thin ice. The Germans so much as sneeze at them, they get disrupted. I take potshots back, they get disrupted. They move to shuffle, they get disrupted.

What does the Russian player have for him to have a fighting chance?

You played a guy who has 690 games under his belt, while this is your first, a wider gap in experience could not be imagined.

How about changing sides and playing the Germans? Don't be surprised if that "easy" victory is not as easy as you think, without actually seeing how you play it is very hard to give advice, I have played newbies who have done the most bizarre moves and strategies, some because they don't really understand military tactics, some because they don't understand how the rules work and some a mixture of both!

I cannot overstate how important playing experience against a varied range of players is, you cannot run before you can walk.

Believe it or not we were all in your boots once, but like everything in life it will take some legwork to gain experience and begin to improve.