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Pendraken Rules! => Cold War Commander => Topic started by: Christopher on 09 March 2024, 04:12:20 PM

Title: Sovjet minimum inf
Post by: Christopher on 09 March 2024, 04:12:20 PM
Why dies the Sovjet army has such a high number of minimum infantry? 6 units pr 1000 points. Most armies in second edition dont even have minimum infantry so why that much for the Sovjet?

Cheers
Christopher
Title: Re: Sovjet minimum inf
Post by: Duke Speedy of Leighton on 09 March 2024, 09:06:00 PM
"QUANTITY HAS A QUALITY ALL OF IT'S OWN?"
 ???  :-\
 Didn't someone say that?
Title: Re: Sovjet minimum inf
Post by: Orcs on 09 March 2024, 10:26:39 PM
Look at the Russian attacks in Ukraine - walls of "cannon fodder"
Title: Re: Sovjet minimum inf
Post by: Big Insect on 10 March 2024, 03:44:26 PM
This has been answered on a previous errata thread.

The reason is that unlike other Cold War forces, such as the French for example, who can field an entire formation with only Armoured Cars in it. Soviet Doctrine was combine arms and that even Tank Brigades had Mechanised Infantry attached. But as always - you can choose to use actual OOBs (in which case you'll probably have to take even more infantry) instead or no infantry at all.

Thanks
Mark