Thanks for the input ehlokeay. I think I was just really strung-out yesterday from getting mollywhopped and couldn't see a light at the end of the tunnel, so to speak. I went back to an earlier save in which I still had my full compliment of men and replayed through the mission from about the docks onward.
I found it was helpful to pull a little "side mission" and clean out that little bit of the map showing where the major concentration of Romanians show up after securing the AA guns (...with the 3 sandbagged mg's behind the minfield, and where the T33's will be beached). From there I basically took care of the AA guns again making sure to safeguard my numbers, which was no problem today for some reason (yesterday an additional tank plus 15 infantry showed up right after I secured them and laid into me...).
I then simply took my time slowly sabotaging and working my way through to the howitzer gun objective (...lots of house clearing with nades, acquiring a tank, and saving about every 2 min did the trick). I was relieved that once I neutralized the 3 artillery pieces an entire wave of Russians attacked the sh*t out of that trench line, pretty much doing the cleanup job for me.
I am looking forward to trying to defend Sevastopol, although at first glance it looks like a rather rigid defense with little customization possible, kinda disappointing since I love the set-piece micromanagement battle, oh well...
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