Lapsed player/lurker just wanting to show solidarity with Loki - the best manual writer I've ever encountered, and the most excellent tutor/guide on these forums. Incredibly patient and generous person judged on his contributions to the forum.

Very surprised the racist/homophobic poster wasn't ...

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WITE2 is actually one of the most playable, <B><s>[b]</s>intuitive<e>[/b]</e></B>, easy to use and easy to understand games out there.<br/>

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I’m sorry and no offence, but that sentence is simply ridiculous ...

<t> I must say that I essentially agree with the OP. <br/>
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I am not against the depth or complexity of the game - quite the reverse, I think that this is all fantastic. That is what brings all of us here to this forum. This is the best game of its class ever created. <br/>
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But I from ...

Thanks guys that's great stuff.

Until you've completed a full campaign it's all those estimations of future truck use that are hard to judge without having lived through it!

<t> Thanks Q-Ball - really useful stuff.<br/>
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Talking trucks: So when the soviet player looks at his truck pool, and let's say he sees 20k trucks there, is that 20k trucks going to waste that he should build new units to use up? <br/>
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Also, as Soviet player approx how many tank corps ...

If you accidentally transfer a unit to a theatre box, but you're playing without enhanced TB control, is that unit basically lost to you?!

<t> Once you hit mid 1942 and tank corps are available, what are folks' thoughts on how to manage the red army's armour?<br/>
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How many tank corps do folks build in 1942? <br/>
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Should you make tank corps out of every tank brigade/motorised brigade that you have already built?<br ...

<t> I'm struggling to get my head around measuring how I'm doing on the truck front. Clearly this is something vital to get right. <br/>
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Speaking from the Soviet perspective in this case, how do you judge the health of your truck force - ie helping decide how many tank corps / mech units you ...

Great map! I'm using this from now on!

<t> Changing HQ assignments is probably one of the most egregious generators of excess clicks in the game, seeing that one is constantly shifting units between commands. <br/>
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It would be great if a more streamlined system for this could be devised, although I suspect the architecture of the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>I guess I'm not sure (a) why you are seeing this as such a huge issue or (b) why you think a lack of recon should trigger systemic over-estimation. You are not showing instances where an attack is made on a unit that wasn't detected till the encounter happened, never mind if ...

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I'm pretty sure that the CV values you get on the pop up when you are about to attack (i.e. before you release the mouse button) are fully accurate and free of FoW. So you can find out that way. That was the case at least in earlier ...

<t> So in this small data set, we have the difference between the estimated CVs and the real CVs as +12%, +30%, +30%, +15%, +40%. <br/>
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And in my experience this pattern is repeated across the entire front, every turn.<br/>
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Which means as a simple rule of thumb, if I look at an enemy ...

<r> And finally the unit showing estimated CV of 12. The hasty attack reveals true CV of 17. That's a difference around +40%<br/>
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<r> Now for the unit displaying CV 19. My hasty attack reveals a true CV of 215. That's a difference of around +15%.<br/>
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<r> Next moving down to the hex with CV 11. <br/>
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I attack to discover the real CV is 16. Which in this case is around +45%. A little on the higher end of the range, but more careful research would have revealed the mouse-over CV of the hex is 5.7 + 6.9 = 12.6. That brings the difference ...

<r> Next I attack the hex with estimated CV 7, revealing a true CV of 9. So the true CV is around +30% here.<br/>
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<r> To demonstrate, I now make hasty attacks with cavalry on the units I listed to reveal their true CV. <br/>
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Firstly the stack showing CV18. The hasty attack reveals the true CV is 20. So the real CV in this case is +12%<br/>
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<r> I think I'm not making my point very well so I'll try to illustrate. <br/>
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Here's an image of a section of the front, March 41. I'm soviets. I've selected this region randomly. <br/>
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Let's look at the string of enemy stacks starting with defensive CV 18 going south with CV of 7 ...

<t> Just had a quick spin on the Vistula scenario and attacked all the German units across the front. <br/>
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In every case the estimated CV was always less (occasionally equal to) the real CV of the defending units. Typically the real CV was somewhere between 20-60% more. <br/>
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Surely ...