Human wave tactics was nothing new even then. The scale and callousness with which the Soviets did so was practically medieval, especially for the time, but that was the reality of total war.
That's right, isolated mechanized columns being picked up and destroyed by light infantry was truly a novelty. But seriously actually this also happened in the Winter War, famously so (the Raate Road is a symbol of the war).
I can perhaps concede about "paratroopers doing a crossover between Crete and Dien Bien Phu but with helicopters", it's true nothing like that happened in the 21st elsewhere.
I liked the Mad Max armor from wooden logs and various crap on their trucks and APCs. Actually futuristic, in a way, the postapo aesthetics. (Stacking the ERA on the sides of BMPs was also innovative, and very eccentric as it's a cartoonish self-destruction contraption.)
DNR conscripts with the Mosin Nagants and WWII helmets and OMON with riot gear and riot trucks sent as a spearhead completed the whole package.
It was almost as good as "the new land warfare doctrine of the 20th century" they displayed in the Winter War.
Human wave tactics was nothing new even then. The scale and callousness with which the Soviets did so was practically medieval, especially for the time, but that was the reality of total war.
Noticeably that is not the case here.
That's right, isolated mechanized columns being picked up and destroyed by light infantry was truly a novelty. But seriously actually this also happened in the Winter War, famously so (the Raate Road is a symbol of the war).
I can perhaps concede about "paratroopers doing a crossover between Crete and Dien Bien Phu but with helicopters", it's true nothing like that happened in the 21st elsewhere.
I liked the Mad Max armor from wooden logs and various crap on their trucks and APCs. Actually futuristic, in a way, the postapo aesthetics. (Stacking the ERA on the sides of BMPs was also innovative, and very eccentric as it's a cartoonish self-destruction contraption.)
DNR conscripts with the Mosin Nagants and WWII helmets and OMON with riot gear and riot trucks sent as a spearhead completed the whole package.
War, war never changes, and neither the Russian war doctrine.