<t> Ah so! I was wondering how these ended up in TOAW IV (I was never able to register for the beta). Nice job Silvanski! It's fun to see these east front games in the new version of TOAW, and excellent that you took the time to improve them well done. The designer notes could stand an update btw ...

<t> Here is an updated build of "Battle for Moscow".<br/>
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This build learns from a playtest I conducted over the Christmas holidays. I played OKW/OKH against an elmer-controlled Stavka. My strategy was to find a winter line short of Moscow by early to mid-November 1941, and then to press a ...

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- german formations had numerous erroneous formation supply ratings -- cleaned up and standardized<br/>
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- fiddled with soviet unit effectiveness, readiness and supply as well as replacement levels to try to find appropriate game balance ...

Below is the current (December 18/10) version of "Battle for Moscow 1941-1943", simulating a German "Moscow first" strategy pursued with determination. Looking for brave souls willing to playtest this build and to comment on play balance.

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In what way is the artillery abstracted? Is it the load-out or the way they ware organized?
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Well, the artillery units are labelled "artillery" instead of an historical unit designation (the panzer art units ...

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Because of how TOAW handles air units, is it a bad idea to mix different aircraft and types of aircraft? Since the air war is so abstract I've always thought it better to treat it as such and not go into too much detail.
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You're busy with your project, too. In case you got the Lw/VVS Units, let us from STALAG13 have a look and we'll start integrating them, with your and Brian's kind permission, into Battles of Moscow 41-43.
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<t> Here is the current build. This scenario:<br/>
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- provides a comprehensive re-label of both OOBs into German and latinized Russian, courtesy of Obert_Klinck with many thanks. Took a little while to get used to it but it's growing on me...<br/>
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- all of the formations have revised ...

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There it is...
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I like the new German and Russia chrome quite a lot. Just a small bit of regret you didn't work from the latest file so a number of edits ...

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Tigers first arrived on the east front in 8-42 with sPzAbt.502, but were deployed in small numbers and had little effect. At the time of the Stalingrad crisis, available Tigers were organised into sPzAbt.503 and sent to AGS. Maybe in the ...

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Like others I have been following unit histories and here are a few for consideration:<br/>
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328 Inf (39corps, 2pzG), arrives t80, 7-4-42, but historically arrived with 9th Army 4-42. It went to France 11 or 12-42, returned 6 or 9-43 ...

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There it is...
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I like the new German and Russia chrome quite a lot. Just a small bit of regret you didn't work from the latest file so a number of edits (including a couple of tricky and time-consuming ones ...

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B*gger... Either I did a bloody mistake or somehow ALL the objective tracks in my localized German/Russian version ALL disappeared! :/<br/>
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Thanks for the info about how to check the integrity Telumar. Well, another session of ...

<t> I've been experimenting with various event options during this process, and the result is a bit of a hodge-podge in the events (since some worked, and some didn't and were then turned off or over-written by new experiments). If you feel like digging into the events here is an inventory of ...

<t> The current build of this thing. New:<br/>
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- "GD withdraws" news event fire turn is corrected to correspond to when the unit really withdraws.<br/>
- 8th panzer VP penalty reset to be removed March 1942 to correspond to actual historical arrival.<br/>
- Pestillence set to zero at end ...

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I think in this scenario that the German player will be shifting infantry units of 9th Army on a northwest axis to keep in contact with 16th Army, while taking advantage of the units being sent to 2nd Pz Group in order to help protect their ...

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I think in this scenario that the German player will be shifting infantry units of 9th Army on a northwest axis to keep in contact with 16th Army, while taking advantage of the units being sent to 2nd Pz Group in order to help protect their ...

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- you'd do 1941 reinforcement units in lieu of 1% replacements in the replacement editor, just to be clear?<br/>
- may 1942 pzIVf2: so when does the pzivf1 start and stop?<br/>
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Replacement surge should have happened on turn 50, along with all the pz battalions.

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So if I understood the recipe correctly, this is how you'd set this up? Part 1:<br/>
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