Regular infantry is of very limited use, shock infantry is the standard in nearly every game, and regulars only appear for very specific roles or because they come with a good transport. Planes in RD are mostly used as panic buttons so learn to play without them to start.Д«uidings and compounds also work differently to SD so it's good to have the infantry numbers to start. They have a good range of recon units and a solid infantry base, which is the biggest difference from SD to RD. Eastern Block and Scandinavian are both great. If you were a complete noob to the game I would say trying playing with mechanised decks and no aircraft to start. also units have hitpoints so supply is more important that SD as it replaces ammunition, fuel (which can be a pain in RD) and repairs your infantry with cyborg parts. Eastern Block is more focused on mechanized stuff, Norad has high tech unicorns, USSR has cancer, ecc.Д«ecause the attacking and defending is more focused, range is important. Not all specializations are viable, the most common and strong ones are motorized and mechanized.Д®uroCorps is know for the strong motorized flavour but inefficient mechanized grind. You get more slots of a specific type with higher veterancy (infantry for moto/mech, tanks for armored, ecc) but you lose access to other units (moto get only wheeled transports, mech only tracked and both lose big tanks). You can have also specializations like motorized, armored, mechanized of the same coalition. The trade off is that you have some of everything but not a lot of a specific type. For example: you can take 2/3 cards of mechanized infantry (inf with slow but cost effective transports/IFVs) as your main inf force then some motorized infantry (fast but less cost effective transports). a deck without specialization that let you choose every unit from the coalition's nations but you are limited in the number of slots per category. You can have what is called a 'general deck' i.e. If youre taking the MLU, make sure its upvetted, since it has Radar missiles. Deck building is much more flexible and can be a painful experience for new players. You can take a second card of AT plane, either getting another card of Peace Rhine, or a card of F-16A MLU.

Wargame red dragon deck builds