Played two Volkssturm battles with general fantastic
First was USA vs Volkssturm, in which I was able to win thanks to some poor usage of flame sherman jumbos and defense in depth (I failed the ground objectives because I didn't have anyone in them again, I do hate that defenders dont automatically "own" objectives). Overlapping machine gun positions and bunkers did well, while he still had many men left, a ceasefire was declared once he lost all his tanks, as he had lost faith that he could continue the attack. At least he didnt needlessly sacrifice his poor infantry more than he already had.
After that we decided on a mirror match, in which he would play the volkssturm on a city map and I would attack him, this time as the british. My paras did rather well as you can see, with a 4:1 casualty ration on the attack, which would have been better if I'd remembered TRPs are a good idea in urban terrain. A 95mm armed Cromwell did hit a mine, and a Churchill AVRE got ammo detonated by a Stielgranate 41, but otherwise I was able to keep the AFVs alive in the city, although they certainly lost some effectiveness due to my excessive timidity to push into good locations for fear of the panzerfausts that had been so effective in my hands.
Overall Volkssturm review: fun, extremely prone to mass surrenders, I wish there were any options aside from just one standardized battalion.
Next is to be a massive infantry meeting engagement in Fortress Italy. Reckon I'll go for the Fallschirmjager against his Brazillians, I do like some elite paras with wacky weapons.