It’s a neat idea, but in practice it rarely has any negative consequences in my time with the game I never saw anyone executed because of 227. These conscripts make poor soldiers, but there are certainly a lot of them to go around-a seemingly infinite number, in fact. Your main special ability involves calling up conscripts-fodder troops forcefully drafted into the Soviet army that you can merge into other units to replenish their numbers or treat as disposable forces. The Russian Army relies on conscripts backed up by heavy-duty firepower. Squaring off against the Nazis, you definitely come to understand this war involved a smaller, more powerful German force on one side and a meat grinder on the other No matter what obstacle you’re facing, the primary solution is to throw more men at the front lines. Relic definitely tries to capture what made the Eastern Front so horrific. It’s a gloomy set-up for a discomfiting game. The story is related as a series of flashbacks from his comfy home in a Siberian jail cell, presumably for rebelling against the Motherland. Even our protagonist, former Soviet lieutenant Lev Abramovich Isakovich, doesn’t agree with his country’s actions.
