hellraiser1973
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Defending against barbarossa is not really an option against a decent axis player. Delaying, yes. Distracting, yes. Russia needs time to build a competitive army and tech up and that's not gonna happen during the first year - year and a half. Russia can try to temporarily defend some areas of the map, using natural barriers - rivers, marshes, etc but only as a part of a broader strategy of delaying the german advance until winter time. This usually consists of a corps defence, taking good care to keep the units in supply so they can be rebuilt at half the price. Counterattacking in high axis supply areas is probably a horrible ideea (unless axis player screwed up badly somewhere). So it is best to focus on major objectives - Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad - there the reds have good supply and might just stand a chance. It is highly unlikely to hold all the major objectives but as long as you hold either moscow or stalingrad, you have a ramp to launch a counterattack when the time comes. IMHO, Rostov - Stalingrad area is very important because if axis cut caucasus off, you lose a lot of mpps. Alternatively, Russia can try to distract axis by launching a preemptive strike on Finland, aiming to take her out thus depriving Axis of a lot of units (finns have a decent army). I'd do it immediately after germany DoW USSR, so the germans have to decide to either follow the original plan and push deep into the USSR or divert troops and bail finland out thus maybe slowing the advance on the main front. The same principle would work for an invasion of Turkey - that is contingent on axis african campaign result though. Surely this might mean you have a lot less units defending Russia proper but it might just give the allied player a breather should the germans decides to divert resources to respond to russian actions.
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