Did the Gold Treatment help with Minsk 44 ?

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Reading through some old posts on Minsk '44, it seems that there was some frustration and dissatisfaction from the Soviet perspective about being a bit of a slog.

Has anyone gone back and played Minsk '44 after the Gold treatment and have an updated evaluation of  the game?

(Looking for a good / fluid Soviet major offensive game - so this subject matter is of interest)

I don't know about slog- I never played the WDS version- and played a couple of smaller scenarios as the Soviets, plus the campaign as same.  I was pretty much wiping the floor with the Germans, to the point where it didn't even seem fair -- and this was against human players, not the AI.

I mean sure you have to play as the Soviets, differently than you would as the Germans in 1941 over the same basic ground - but isn't that really the point of playing as the Soviets.

I mean - find German Armour, find 88's -concentrate on them- render them neutralised, and just push everywhere.

Personally I would think that the German player might find themselves punch-drunk after a short time.

What I think might be interesting, is to write up a series of play guides in how playing as the Soviets, basically evolves from 1941 - 45 - especially with their offensives, from the winter in front of Moscow, the Izyum Pocket, encircling Stalingrad, countering Kharkov 43, Kursk, Korsun, Bagration, then Budapest, not to mention anything else that ends up getting put out there.  Something to do down the track, I'm sure...   (edited -- forgot Rzhev -- but -same point ... all of them -especially ones with big Russian pushes, regardless of if they worked out as anticipated (because that actually would be the point of analyzing and comparing/contrasting them.

but yeh, considering the version as it was released was basically a Russian steamroller - which it was historically... not sure what could be done differently and retain the character of the campaign.