Helping The Soviets

[vince hughes]

I've played many people either ftf, PBEM or Skype Voice Chat and one theme that many opponents bemoan is just how hard it is to command Soviet troops and keep their cohesiveness despite their usual numbers.

PG avoided the ASL 'Beserk' status and I think rightly too. Its inclusion of Penal Battalions/Platoons was cool and personally, I'd like to see more of them than the few scenarios they have turned up in.

Now I'm not advocating the following as a rule change, but think that it would be a sometimes neat inclusion as a scenario special rule (SSR) by some of the scenario writers. It is also a very small game change with minimum impact, but would give the Soviet player something to look forward to when rolling recovery.

This is what I thought would be nice:

14.43 "A demoralised unit or leader immediately returns to good order (skipping disruption) on an unmodified recovery result of '2' (double 1). However, Soviet units achieve this with an unmodified rolled result of '3' or less."

Not much of a bonus but it would add to their own national characteristic and kind of give them that odd bit of fanatacism (eagerness to rally to the cause) beyond that of other nationalities ?

Just a thought and perhaps a discussion point. :-)