What Would Stalin do?

yes but that was not Stalin’s decision. The was could have been won in 1941, but only in that year. In 1942 they didn’t have enough and the Russians did.

Meh, I think Hitler could have won a local offensive to take Moscow in 1942, if he’d played his cards right.  The Germans actually consolidated some Russian pockets from the 1941 winter counterattacks and cut off a major counteroffensive at Kharkov in spring 1942.  Seriously, at Kharkov in 1942 Stalin was probably directly responsible for at least 270,000 Soviet casaulties, most of them prisoners of war, by refusing to give the order to retreat until it was too late.  With the Germans taking the initiative after that Soviet defeat they could have made a decent stab at Moscow with what they had left from 1941.  If the Germans had been able to cut the rail lines leading into Moscow and pushed the supply line for Russia back into the Urals, they might have stood a chance.  But since this is HITLER we’re talking about here…

1943, not a chance.

What are you defeatists talking about!

He had a chance right up until christmas 44.

And if he’d gotten the nuke in 45… :P

I agree russia must not be to passive
as far as hitler and stalin
hitler did the same thing as stalin he just didn’t have enough germans

Well History does repeat itself “Napoleon”, just lure them in let the snow come in and own them.

You defeat Russia from the East not the West.

Buy a Fighter a turn

stalin moved his siberian troops to moscow,and pushed the germans from the gates,and got a few months breath,we cant do that cos the japs would kick the shit out of us in the east.this is a game not a real war,we cant do anything that stalin would do,except drink lots of vodka and play pissed:)

@Idi:

Buy a Fighter a turn

Buy an Idi each turn and place them in the front lines. Then attack in the evening and the setting sun reflecting off all those medals will blind the Germans!

I am a history major, so I have a small amount of insight into this area, and the primary reason that the Russians were able to push the Germans back is because of immensely horrible leadership by Hitler. Had Germany followed Guderian’s encirclement plans at the time of invasion, or had the 2nd or 3rd panzer corps not sat still for 39 days after the fall of Smolensk, or had Hitler not sent Guderian to the assistance of Rundstedt, or had Hitler used Gen Student’s paratroopers. Or had Hitler merely besieged rather than conquer Stalingrad, or allowed Von Paulus to break out and meet Manstein, or really just allowed Gen Bock to command the South in 1942. Any of these things would have brought victory to the Germans.

This is obviously simplistic but in the broadest sense the Rise and Fall of the Third Reich had the same cause - Hitler.  He created it and he destroyed it.

Russia has been getting more fun to play with each new edition. You have lots of ways to respond to Germany. One of my recent experiments as Germany allowed Russia to buy a couple bombers and transports to great affect. Don’t sit idle even if you see nothing but a stream of troops coming in. Artillery are a great buy a huge offense boost for little cost. Tanks, planes, and mechs can also be part of the mix depending on what Germany is buying and how they are moving.

@poloplayer15:

that’s wrong!! yeah you need to defend but don’t give up all that money and territory. the key to defending Russia is simple: layers of defense. have a defense line at the boarder and each territory line after that. i.e. Novgorod, Belarus, pripet marshes, western Ukraine, Ukraine.  just build inf. and a few tanks. make the Germans pay for each bit of ground they take. but its most important that you don’t let them destroy your whole army. what i mean is don’t bunch up your forces at one defense line. do some small counter attacks.

also don’t give up Leningrad or Stalingrad with out a major fight. if you do the Germans get a minor factory. the same goes with the Ukraine.

This tends to work quite well for me, as long as i don’t leave stacks within reach of germanys tank stacks. I’ve found it’s a rare day that germany can keep the supply lines constant on it’s march to Russia. I can usually chop them up at some point or another.