I'm still pretty early in both campaigns.
On the allied side, I'm at the first level where you get to futz around with spies.
Lost Tanya to an attack dog, said to hell with it and stopped for the night.
On the soviet side, I'm still on the level where you have to capture the science lab with an engineer and turn it into a psy-beacon.
And then defend it from aerial troops.
And I didn't have enough flak troops/tracks to defend it in time, so it got blasted.
This was like, level 2 or something I think, I was still getting the hang of what units work best.
Yeah. The Allied campaign comes out strong, although a lot of Allied campaign missions are pretty straightforward. The Soviet missions have a slightly wider variety of missions, but they aren't quick out of the gate. Stick with both of them, but the Soviet campaign might win out in terms of variety and ridiculousness in the end.
Also, never underestimate the engineer. On that Soviet mission, you're encouraged to snatch up the three oil refineries right off the bat. Still, you can swing in and snatch up an Allied barracks and war factory, allowing you to make IFV units, which are great anti-air units because of how mobile they are. Throughout both the campaigns, the engineers prove to be useful and give the game more flexibility. Heck, if you know where to look in your most recent Allied mission, you can have an engie capture an ore refinery and a barracks, allowing you to make a giant army of conscripts, which in turn lets you rush both nuclear missile sites with a giant wave of ruskies instead of having Tanya risk her neck. When you're REALLY ready, you can do a run in which only engineers capture opposing buildings instead of destroying them. Of course, defensive structures and soldiers are fair game, but it takes quite a bit of patient to only use engineers to deal with opposing buildings.
It's worth it for the fun of the final mission, though.
Yeah. You could either go on a giant Kirov curbstomp or slowly suffocate the Allies to death. Both took some time, but were beyond gratifying.
