guard your starting airforce, it would take a long time for the s.u. to build an airforce,
build a lot of armor, you need that to move quickly at the eastern front,
you also need a lot of infantry and artillery, move your infantry and artillery to forward position’s, guarded by armor
build more infantry at the early round’s to make time to move toward russia
if you have not broken the second line by turn 3, you are in for a long hard struggle
karelia would be an objective, because of the 5 infantry that are there
with good planning russia can withstand almost any type of attack from germany,
during the early round’s russia has no airforce,
buy a bomber to consolidate the existing one at germany,
when attacking the second line concentrate the main focus of your attack above or below the german n.o. marker
use a secondary force, reinforced with aircraft to attack and repel the other front,
by the start of turn 4 you could have enough to attack russia, do not fall into the trap of trying to hold onto every territory, russia is the objective, and for this, you need karelia solidly, and the first line, you only need 1 territory from the second line to attack russia, if you have been moving infantry forward to the front line, you should have 5 -10 infantry for a first wave assault at russia, your second round infantry should be behind these, you should also have 2 bomber’s 4-5 fighter’s, 4-5 armor, and some artillery to boost your infantry attack, russia is not an attacking force until round 2,
it would be round 3 before you see the deployment of russia’s force, if the russian player has purchased 4 - 6 armor, this
can strike at the second round, and with the starting infantry, can cause a lot of damage to a weakly defended german attack,there is a great distance between germany and russia, therefore if you lose your frontline infantry, you end up with a see-saw effect, germany pour’s armor forward, it takes 2 turn’s to get to russia, by that time russia has deployed large infantry, and armor to repel the invasion,
personally, i think that if russia has not been taken by round 5, you would need japan
also if the u.k. play’s patiently and send’s it’s airforce to russia, you definetely need bomber’s to take russia