I would like to thank everybody. After a few pbem games from US and Russian side let me take a crack at answering my own question.
1-understand and accept that you are against the apex predator of this game so it will not be a fair fight you can do everything "right" and lose....
2-understand that unit for unit u will be out spotted and out gunned... your guys will miss shots theirs wont.... u will connect on shots and the unit u shot will then kill u.... u will not do the same if they shoot u than your dead..
3-understand the equipment u have and more importantly how it matches up vs the US-(a) bmp3 is worse than useless the 100mm gun is low velocity, takes forever to reload, only thing about it that is good is air bursting shell on infantry.. there for use only bmp2, bmp2m, or btr, the 30mm autocannon is pretty good but either is still an underdog to the bradley your sure to be against so the amount of these IFVs to take is highly dependent on mission and estimated enemy force-- (b) your best tank T90a.m. is way over matched by abrams,,, so is your T72 option but the key here is your not that much worse off with a T72 than u are with a T90 regardless how much better the T90 is over the T72 you are better off buying T72 and using the savings elsewhere-- (c)APS will in the right circumstance knock down both Javelin and TOW2... but in most circumstances APS wont help so it is an insurance policy not worth the cost(d) this is of corse map and mission dependent but even in attacks and meeting engagements a good rule of thumb is at least 1 squad per platoon cut the I.F.V. use a supply truck instead and while the bmp2 the the clear cut better option over the bmp3.. using BTR's in there intended battle taxi role should also be considered for the point saving that can be used in other places-- all those point saving will bring the question what are u gonna buy with them...
4-Ok so what matchups favor Russia.. (a)Tunguska's are fantastic units,, they very quickly turn abrams in MG bunkers.. and they smoke all other US units.. and are the next best thing to tactical nukes vs infantry,, the thicker the urban setting the better because u can fire completely thru 1 or sometimes 2 sets of structures to target infantry in buildings behind that,, plus they swat drones and choppers out of the are and have SAM missiles for jets so u should always have not less that 1 platoon most of the time 2..... they are only 2 vehicle platoons...there is also some command and arty vehicles u should always have but will cover that in tactics section (b) drones yes stingers can take them down but often not on the first shot and often players will just attach between 2 and 4 stinger teams,,, but doing that leaves them with no reloads so a miss or 2 will leave them open to a possible air attack.. russia does have some jets that are cheap enough to gamble on if u cut it from 2 units to 1--any map with long sight lines whether attack defense or meet taking a few ATGMs is worth the cost.they will KO bradleys.. they will hurt abrams even if not ko'd so the is value in the fairly cheap cost... the rest of the possible matchups in Russia favor will be highly dependent on tactics and mission...
5-Arty... there is a vast difference in what the Red Army has available in CMCW and CMBS... the CW massive arty strike is simply not affordable ... the most bang for the buck on a reasonable call in time is 120mm mortars...but compared to what else is available they are really pretty good... 152 precision arty does not ko abrams anyway so 120 mm does just as good there and pretty much the same versus all other targets and they come in a 6 gun battery that is downright impressive.. paired with an arty observe vehicle with a drone and a player would think they had a scary capability if they had not been spoiled bey the american combo...
6-force selection ok so it being clear u dont have good chances in a balanced fight what can be done..... seek an imbalanced one....for an example lets say u expect to face the mixed company team of 1 abram platoon and 2 bradley platoons.. than map/mission dependent u should go way tank heavy so... as much of a T72 company as possible even if it only leaves not much more than 1 platoon on infantry giving the chance of taking his best down which hopefully will take the other part of his force down trying even the score or save the other side of his formation or go very light on tanks and very heavy on troops atgms and so on with the same ideal..
7-tactics....those of u still reading this is where most of your ideals focused and they were good solid ideals but they just as well could have been offered to someone asking how to play the Brits in CMBN... again they were good solid tactics and they MUST be used but i do believe this ideal must be added... there wont be some masterplan or brillant trap u can catch them in hardly ever so what u must do above all is be fundamentally sound.. move wilth cover no unit fights alone all that ... i also believe u have to do 2 things that are almost opposites of each other... u have to be patient...and very solid but at the same time u have to watch for any opportunity or mistake and u have to pounce on it almost recklessly.... but NOt reckless dont lounge out without at least the chance of doing more damage then u will receive ... what i mean by that is maybe u see a vehicle that is or can be isolated attacked and then dart back into cover...... GO FOR IT,,,, go hard....and then watch for what i will call 50-50 shots.... something that makes u think if these units make contact in the way it looks like they are about to ... i think about half the time mine would win in this spot and about half the time they would lose.....THAN GO FOR IT.... 50-50 is better odds than US equipment will usually give u ...example put a abrams and T72 head on in a flat .50km box... what does abrams win that 90 percent higher? so whatever has happened that has even those odds up for next turn or 2 roll them dice..... Take note u have done something right he has done something wrong the terrain just laid out that way or some combo of the 3 happened and u still lose HALF the time.... just deal with it
The last thing i can think of is to make sure your imbalanced force is all within the same C2 chain.. that chain should have at the highest level an MTLB arty vehicle inside your best spotter.. drone pilot.. highest ranking officer for the formation even if he is in a squad that has to be spilt down from that any company commaders should have a command vehicle even the cheapest one then if u could not get around having a second formation the main formation XO should be placed with the highest ranking officer from the other formation... this will allow the drone info to fed directly to the CO of the biggest formation and with all company officers in command vehicles will all the spotting info to flow at fastest possible rate from drone down everybody.... and anything the drone misses will flow up the fastest and having XO placed with the out of C2 chain formation it will allow crosstalk between the formations... which may save a second or 2 spotting time and that might make the difference.......
the part i forgot is ..... there will be times your vehicles just blowup like your fighting ghosts.... not even a vague spot on anything and then BANG it is dead... battlefield CSI will have to be done every single time no matter how aggravating it is... even if it comes to quick pausing it right before the vehicle explodes to catch spot of what killed u... seeing a jav diving in should allow some backtracking and when u do flood the place with area fire for up to 30 seconds next turn then run... or if it was a tank shell... whatever else is near pop smoke run..... if excalibur shells raining down kick yourself for sitting there to long ....
It will take some lucky breaks to beat a well selected and handled US force.. but at end of the day luck will even out.... so do every little thing u can think of to place yourself where good luck can hit u.....and of corse u will make mistakes but your opponent will to... be alert for them and make the most of them........
Good Luck and Thank You if u managed reading all that I would be very interested in hearing any thoughts!!!