<t> The russians suffered a general shortage of aviation grade fuel throughout the war and although by 1943 they had over 21,000 aircraft in their inventory they certainly could not fly them. The actual operational total in '43 was just over 12,000. Even so those 12,000 planes could only fly on ...

<t> In addition what happens in the case of returning wounded? do they return to their parent units ar are they added to the manpower pool?<br/>
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If they are added to the pool their experience is lost and anyway for a game that goes into great detail national differences in replacement and ...

<t> OK to a point but in the '42 campaign I got sick of the AI teleporting dozens of units vast distances to block my panzer breakthroughs. As in lots of cases it would have been impossible to get the unit there in real life it ended up being a joke and I have essentially given up playing more than ...

<t> FOW? what FOW?<br/>
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even i don't mind flying hundreds of recce missions!<br/>
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apparently there were situations where air recce could not effectively get through the fighter screen!<br/>
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Make maskirovka etc more effective by having the recce identify a number of units that ...

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to shortcircuit all the problems of analysing PBEM games etc etc why not just trust the players and<br/>
add a end turn number for the 1:1=2:1 rule?<br/>
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Put it in the player options section so that it can be changed during the game if the players agree.<br/>
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<t> I think static mode is there in the scenarios etc as an attempt to simulate the reality of not being able to attack all along the front.<br/>
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I like coding for effect rather than the complex 'realistic' calculations which ofter add complexity and little advantage<br/>
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Perform a ...

<t> One thing the germans remained good at even in 1945 was deploying ad-hoc blocking detachments around an officer and a gathering of men. Sometimes these detachments got large enough and survived long enough to be honoured with names! and became Kampfgruppe.<br/>
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The rear areas of the army ...

<t> This Baku issue ties in nicely with the need to give the germans incentives to go on the offensive in summer 42.<br/>
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something like <br/>
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Capture Moscow - one off hit on morale? large, say 20 or 30%<br/>
Occupy west Caspian rail line with unit on hex - all factories suffer a ...

Are the air doctrine defaults the same for both sides at start?

The reason I ask is having recon set to 101% for the russians would help to simulate the utter confusion of the first turn.

<t> Swopping out MG34's for new MG42's ? Should not happen<br/>
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The MG42 is not a replacement equipment for the MG34, just a cheaper to produce alternative.<br/>
I presume they fire the same bullets!<br/>
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I doubt divisions would be asked to hand in their MG34's and it is more likely ...

<t> how many Jagdpanther battalions are in the game?<br/>
I can find only one (560th) in the 44 campaign game<br/>
Some sources suggest 7 panzer divisions on the east front were issued with them from feb 45<br/>
Duffy in Red Strom on the Reich quotes a panzer platoon commander in 4th panzer ...

<t> LL avgas is included<br/>
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LL delivered about 1.2? million tons of avgas for the war.<br/>
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I don't have the annual delivery figures<br/>
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My figures are very approximate but it is interesting that this subject ties in well with the front wide offensive thread.<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jomni<br/>
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The Army activation idea is also what I got from the other thread. <br/>
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Why not use AP's to activate armies? It's easier and more elegant. Makes you think more about AP spending. And you wouldn't have to rewrite the supply code.
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<t> In essence the germans could attack with 3 army groups in summer 41, Two in summer 42 and one for the rest of the war one?<br/>
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The russians one in 41 and 42 and two in 43 - 44?<br/>
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Pity the russians don't have the 'Direction' command level or it could be called the STAVKA ...

<t> This would potentially tranform the feel of the game in a positive way<br/>
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Without going into details Chasman and I played the Stalingrad scenario of the 'old' SPI War in the East<br/>
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Standard scenario. Germans attack everwhere in the summer and wipe out the russian salients in ...

<t> Got bored last night so did some internet delving plus tossed a few bones and raked about in some entrails<br/>
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apparently the russian oil production went from 31 million tons in 1940 to 19.3 million tons in 45<br/>
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they had great difficulty in producing high octane avgas, only ...

<t> After a quick internet search<br/>
MG34 production<br/>
42 - 77,340<br/>
43 - 165,527<br/>
44 - 278,164<br/>
45 - 56,089<br/>
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MG42 production<br/>
42 to 45 - about 750,000<br/>
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If you sort of match the two guns production rates<br/>
42 - 177,000<br/>
43 - 380,000<br/>
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<t> Maybe there should be a 'bug out' setting on the air doctrine screen?<br/>
When units are below a certain level they withdraw to the rear.<br/>
This takes place DURING the turn<br/>
Having to suffer for several days because command decisions are only made Tuesdays looks crazy to me!.<br ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: olivier34<br/>
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Interesting discussion about fort levels and morale issue. I have open up the 42 GC. Is the order of battle of this scenario enough accurate ? If yes, we should have seen some situation like that in some AARs by now. Or I never seen both ...

<t> Whatever is done should be as simple as possible.<br/>
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Perhaps start with simple code that reduces level 3/4 forts to 2 at the end of the logistics phase.<br/>
Release it as a public beta and see what happens.<br/>
Do the germans now run riot in 1942?<br/>
Is the 42 game balance about ...