Yuck. Yuck. Yuck. Please give me a source (a valid source about this, and enemy at the gates is not a valid source).
If we look at the statistics, the kill ratio was about 1 on 1.3 in favor of the germans. And that 0.3 came from the huge casaulties at the start of barbarossa.
In finland there were huge casaulties becasue of 1. Inexperienced officers ( due to Stalins purge)2. Harsh winter climate, if the red army would of attacked in summer, Finland would be gone in 1.5 weeks. 3. Poorly trained soviet soldiers.
Yes, some of that was still present at the start of the war, but after Stalingrad, russian tactics and strategical thinking became in no way worse than the germans. Oh, and let me tell you some "strategic mistakes" that the germans did. Paul in Stalingrad easily could of created a mobile reserve which could of prevented german 6th army being encircled , but yet Hitler decided ( And unlike rommel Paul only listened to hitler, didin't really think much himself), that the german is not going to leave Stalingrad, and even when they were encircled, HE still didin't give them the order to try and evacaute, instead saying Manstein will come and rescue you!!! It's even worse than the soviet whole "not one step back" mentality. I mean when the soviets realized that they were horribly encircled atleast they tried to make it out of the encirclement. If you still think that the soviets performed human wave attacks, then please google "operation bagration" which the soviets demolished the entire front, and "operation uranus" both of these ended as brutal fiascos for the germans. By 1944, (which the game is set in btw) your average russian soldier was in no less worse than the average russian soldier.
didnt you read what i already said?
Finland fought 2 wars vs soviets and the other was 3 years long 1941 to 1944 so there was plenty of summer fighting so forget about this "1.5 week". Really what are you guys talking about blaming the casulties on "poor clothing, poor training, poor officers" isnt that the thing i said? they basicly came in suicide waves.. there is fucking pictures from finland of mass soviet soldiers charging on open fields and getting cut down.
By the way finland was poor equipped and poorly trained, the army was mostly made up of farmers and peasants who was trained how to fire a rifle and that was it.