[Charles22]

Yes, at least there's some compensation for having better troops other than the obvious. It can get to be a problem over a long haul with a VERY large force, because I was explaining to somebody some time ago, in so doing you would deny the enemy that may had used hordes tactics from doing just that, just because you may have so many units he cannot exceed your own by very much. I don't think most of us play with that large a force though, and I can only guess whather the default points would allow that to happen later on, assuming you didn't add to the core later. Perhaps the USSR is the only nation that I would venture to guess could start by filling out the default points and then have too many units for what I spoke of.

If you bother to equip the USSR that high from the beginning, you really do have a horde yourself and down the line run into the problems I anticipate. That at least can be explained away somewhat, as who could had out-horded the USSR later in the war? Germany could do it at points of attack in the first couple of years, but I would think having somewhere around 150 units or so that they could muster ingame with the default points, wouldn't be a problem until then.

When I campaign USSR, I wouldn't dream of using 3000pts. I think I'm more around 2500 when I get my general 90-110 units. If you start off in Finland instead of Poland, I think by then at least one of the KV's is available, which can soak off some points.

As far as I can remember, winSPWW2 was the first game that allowed the USSR to start a campaign in Poland; for better or worse.