Russian names follow a simple pattern: [first name] [patronymic] [last name]. The easiest way to see if you're doing it right is to look up real-life Russian names and ape that pattern; the patronymic can get tricky since it differs between male (-ovich) and female (-eva).
Anyway, in-character and out, I am hoping to get answers to the operational questions I asked last page. Infiltrating enemy-held territory and getting back out alive is not exactly a walk in St. James Gardens.
And if it seems like I'm getting hung up details, I'd like to point you towards a favorite quote of mine from Adm. H. G. Rickover: "the Devil is in the details, but so is salvation." You get very used to careful planning, even in RPs, when you've experienced the joys of watching your party get pinned down by superior enemy forces because of a planning screwup, or watching your party's plans crash and burn because we didn't pick out a leader ahead of time.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Oh, and a crazy historical suggestion. If we've found that "getting out of France" may be a difficult proposition, we could make the assault date August 19, 1942, and the target building somewhere near Dieppe, France.
This way, we could link up with the beachhead and then get out that way.
Maybe in this alternate 'verse, the Dieppe Raid could be more than just a bloody badly-planned failure, since it'd have the possibility of achieving a genuine intelligence success about the German superhero program. (Although given that we're only hearing about our mission one day before we're supposed to do it, "badly-planned" remains a definite possibility. :V)
I've got Justina ready to take the snarky staff officer role and arranging for the logistics to be sorted out (if and when I switch to her, plus it'll let me leverage my WWII-buff knowledge) but Rai's an ordinary squaddie; he's not trained to coordinate and lead something like this.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Oh, damn. Just when Herja's starting to get some support.
...maybe as a squad leader or something?
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.Democratic leadership of an army: absolutely nothing can go wrong there!
...I'll start prepping medevac procedures just in case.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.I think I do want those healing powers, after all.
what do you mean I didn't win, I ate more wet t-shirts than anyone elseWe'll just have to see how well it'll work for a professional army. I've read Orwell's descripts of how well it worked with militias on a theatre of war where everything could more or less be improvised because their enemies' organizational/logistical skills were at the same level. Against the Wehrmacht, well. (Plus—the militias lost.)
We'll need a procedure for "no arguments right now, everyone do as I say or we're all dead", for when the inevitable happens and everyone comes up with a different plan.
Charlie Stross's cheerful, optimistic predictions for 2017, part one of three.

STRATEGY!!!
Also, Eachiunn, I'm pretty sure NPC Russian commander is legit, but Fyodor thinks she is spy because her name doesn't follow Russian naming conventions or something like that. I could be wrong, but Fyodor would expect her last name to be something like Denisova since, from what I've gathered, Russian surnames and patronymics differentiate for gender. I'm not sure if she would have changed this while in an English speaking country. I haven't looked that hard, but I couldn't find the name Natasya. Natasha is a shortened form of Natalia or Natalya, which are different forms. Also, when Fyodor asked British commanding dude, he was fishing to see how she introduced herself, which components of her name she gave and in what order did she give them. If anyone who has done more than a few hours of research can correct me, please do so. This is probably too much to ask for a campy RP, but I'm just playing Fyodor how I think he would realistically act in this situation.