Marines in Germany?

[Imp]

@Shahadi

This scenario battle type should be Delay/Advance rather than Defend/Assault. In this way the point ratio is more equitable at 1:2 Marine to Soviet rather than the 1:2.5 in current battle type. If battle type set to enable purchase of mines, make purchase and deploy mines. Then save scenario changing battle type.

You keep mentioning this & the ratio of forces is not that relevant compared to knowing if they have had time to fortify positions.
Defend/assault tells you they have had time so there may possibly be mines trenches & other fortifications.
Force ratio not being ideal just means your intelligence stuffed up.
Assaults have had ratios of 10:1 for the attacker but they have also had ratios the wrong way round.
The biggest assault ever was Kursk where the defenders outnumbered the attackers by something like 2:1. Sure it was a disaster the beginning of the end for the German war machine but you cant call it anything else but an assault despite the force ratios being back to front.

[IronDuke99]

Given roughly equal weapons, training and technology very few assaults in the real world will work well at much below a 3 to 1 ratio in favour of the attacker.

As I think is noted in the game manual, in the British Army a Company can be expected to assault a enemy platoon, but an enemy company probably needs a battalion to take it out without overly high friendly casualties.

Although note the first paragraph, if the enemy lacks weapons, training or, especially these days, technology (ie, anything from intelligence, to comms, to artillery or air power, etc) that ratio can change in favour of the attacker.