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Thread: New Commander Submission - SOVIETS11 Jan 2019, 07:40 AM Guards Airborne corp Theme: Drop elite airborne troops behind enemy lines to exploit weaknesses, use air power to break through hardpoints, and keep the initiative on your side using airdropped supplies. Unit and Ability Roster Slot 1: Airborne guards riflemen Paradropped/glider dropped unit, available from 3CP. Costs similar to american paratroopers? Ppsh guards squad from lend-lease Ideally a paradropped squad but if the chutes and animations from paratroopers/fallschirmjaegar can’t be easily attached to the model, having them appear from a british glider should be much the same Slot 2: Allied suppy drop Slot 3: Recon flight Slot 4: Il2-Sturmovik attacks/Il2 PTAB bombs, or perhaps an ability like OKW Airborne assault that has planes loiter and allows paratrroopers to replenish Basically a way to give some anti-vehicle in a thematic way. Although it would be a new ability, the replishment offered by an airborne assault ability would be good as the paratroopers otherwise have no way of replenishing in the field (not a huge loss though, just a neat thing about the other paratrooper units). Slot 5: M42? Least sure about this slot. M42 gives a stopgap light antitank to help against vehicles, and allows for skipping tier 2 initially to keep up mobile pressure. Was historically also the main gun issued to the corps Strategies and Rational Largely this was just designed to give the Soviets an air focussed doctrine to add a new way to play them (currently they’re the only faction without one). The specific tactics I had in mind are a kind of deep strike moving into a continual pressure on the enemies. Paratroopers can get behind enemy lines to bypass strong points, wih recon helping to spot those weaknesses before dropping, the Il2 loiter can help break through a point or make a nasty backline surprise and by being active within enemy territory you can take pressure off your own lines to use the supply drop safely and keep the initiative with extra resources for earlier vehicles. As I said, I’m not completely sure on the fifth slot, but the M42 call in allows you to use tier one for the more mobile and offensive units such as the penals and scout car without becoming too weak to light vehicles and needing to side tech. Additional Context While they were largely used on the ground as elite divisions as the war went on (much like the fallschirmjaeger), the Soviets did establish and train a number of large Airborne corps, and were one of the pioneers of airborne troop tactics during the interwar period (even experimenting with a gliding tank). In 1944 a number of even more elite Guards Airborne corps were formed to be able to exploit opportunities presented during offensives, much like how I envision this commander playing. In: Lobby

Thread: New Commander Submission - SOVIETS11 Jan 2019, 07:40 AM

Guards Airborne corp
Theme: Drop elite airborne troops behind enemy lines to exploit weaknesses, use air power to break through hardpoints, and keep the initiative on your side using airdropped supplies.

Unit and Ability Roster

Slot 1: Airborne guards riflemen
Paradropped/glider dropped unit, available from 3CP.
Costs similar to american paratroopers?
Ppsh guards squad from lend-lease
Ideally a paradropped squad but if the chutes and animations from paratroopers/fallschirmjaegar can’t be easily attached to the model, having them appear from a british glider should be much the same

Slot 2: Allied suppy drop

Slot 3: Recon flight

Slot 4: Il2-Sturmovik attacks/Il2 PTAB bombs, or perhaps an ability like OKW Airborne assault that has planes loiter and allows paratrroopers to replenish
Basically a way to give some anti-vehicle in a thematic way. Although it would be a new ability, the replishment offered by an airborne assault ability would be good as the paratroopers otherwise have no way of replenishing in the field (not a huge loss though, just a neat thing about the other paratrooper units).

Slot 5: M42?
Least sure about this slot. M42 gives a stopgap light antitank to help against vehicles, and allows for skipping tier 2 initially to keep up mobile pressure. Was historically also the main gun issued to the corps

Strategies and Rational
Largely this was just designed to give the Soviets an air focussed doctrine to add a new way to play them (currently they’re the only faction without one). The specific tactics I had in mind are a kind of deep strike moving into a continual pressure on the enemies. Paratroopers can get behind enemy lines to bypass strong points, wih recon helping to spot those weaknesses before dropping, the Il2 loiter can help break through a point or make a nasty backline surprise and by being active within enemy territory you can take pressure off your own lines to use the supply drop safely and keep the initiative with extra resources for earlier vehicles. As I said, I’m not completely sure on the fifth slot, but the M42 call in allows you to use tier one for the more mobile and offensive units such as the penals and scout car without becoming too weak to light vehicles and needing to side tech.

Additional Context
While they were largely used on the ground as elite divisions as the war went on (much like the fallschirmjaeger), the Soviets did establish and train a number of large Airborne corps, and were one of the pioneers of airborne troop tactics during the interwar period (even experimenting with a gliding tank). In 1944 a number of even more elite Guards Airborne corps were formed to be able to exploit opportunities presented during offensives, much like how I envision this commander playing.

In: Lobby