I love switching to German command - stormtroopers plus smoke makes a brutal flank, especially once trenches are reinforced.

Never skip gas masks. Spending the points early means your squads survive the counter-barrage instead of panic retreating.

Keeping officers in reserve to refresh morale lets me chain assaults without losing the central trench.

German heavy machine gunners locking down both lanes gave me my first unstoppable defense. Layer them with mortars for pure suppression.

Mortars take a beat to reload, but syncing them with sniper calls clears bunkers so the shock troops stay alive.

Beating the campaign on hard and watching the war score slide in my favor is the closest thing to negotiating the armistice myself.