Apply common sense and intuition and don’t expect "gamey" tactics to work - no matter how successful they were in other games.
You will be forced to plan ahead, use timing, suppression fire, feints and flanking attacks to survive, let alone to win.When planning your moves, think about what would work in the real world, not what would work in other games. The resulting 60 second replayable “movie” can be viewed from any angle and perspective before moving onto the next turn. Combat Mission: Barbarossa to Berlin allows the player to lead the soldiers of seven nationalities (German, Soviet, Finnish, Hungarian, Romanian, Italian and Polish) into battle, using historical Tables of Equipment and Organization (TO&E), surroundings, and combat results.