
An empty bunker can be upgraded to a MG Emplacement, Healing Station or Reinforcement Point for 60 60 Osttruppen can construct an empty Bunker, giving Heavy Cover for the squad inside it. Requires friendly and connected territory.Despite being historically experienced soldiers, they are a relief infantry with abilities akin to Volksgrenadiers and Soviet Conscripts, with little combat training, and rely on large numbers and good support to be effective in-game. A few of these Russian Osttruppen also saw combat in France in 1944. Historically they were foreign formations from occupied territories of the Soviet Union and were formed by the Germans as foreign infantry legions.īased on the shoulder sleeve identification patch in their uniforms in-game, these Osttruppen units are from the Russian Liberation Army (ROA, POA in Cyrillic), a collaborationist armed force commanded by General Andrey Vlasov, a Red Army general and a turncoat, and was composed of local Russians in occupied Soviet territories, Red Army prisoners, White Emigrés, and Russian Civil War veterans.


Osttruppen (historically as Ostlegionen, "Eastern Legions") are a unit of Georgian, Azeri, Armenian, Dagestani, Russian, Ukrainian, Kazakh, Kyrgyz, and Uzbek soldiers conscripted for Wehrmacht service.
