I did really well as Iran despite not having enough fuel to do jack. Ended up taking all but 1 little square and destroyed or routed all 78 platoons of soviets. Although most of my tanks ended with no fuel left. Its all about picking the good ground. If something is going to result it your units destroyed give a bloody nose and flee the battle. Your guys get routed but just counter attack if able the next turn and you get alot of those routed forces back. Reverse slope of a any mild incline and placing jsut the turret of tank sticking out makes a hell of a hard target. Does not even need to be dug in. But priority 1 for me was get ammo to my tanks. That was all I cared about for first 3 turns. Most ended up with next to no fuel but most ended up with enough ammo on good ground to beat off wave after wave of tanks. I let the afgan guys get slaughtered however.
Couldn't be helped. They where a needed speed bump.
So dug in infantry so long as they have rpg's followed behind a few 100's of meters with tanks or recoiless rifles/atgm. Just hold what you got most of the time and take little risk.
I lost about 32 tanks. But I killed something crazy of attackers.
Oh my and with so little supply level in the 2 depots and on the supply trucks ......LOCK half the platoon and any unit that is not critically important. Then use allocate ammo and fuel to disperse among important units. If a vehicle gets knocked out and it has ammo or fuel left, take its ammo/fuel for your surviving tanks. The worst is having a tank platoon run dry on fuel. even 7 percent left means you can do a little moving in a tactical battle. ON the OP map DONT move it with that little left! Unless you have too.
Ill be playing the soviet campaign again soon. But want to get some nasty surprises for Iran first. For a truly hard DLC Solokovo is it. I got shoved off the map. =) Don't know how the hell to not loose that one. Well also playing soviets with the Germans having tons of tigers and you get pee shooters.