All this would be somewhat easier to test if the game had shipped with a 1941 Winter Counter-offensive scenario. Curious that it didn't....

<t> Maybe some kind of 'hoard supplies' switch is desirable for isolated units. Or an option to discard the vehicle pool. I can't envision a plausible 'Winter Storm' scenario incorporating a 6th Army breakout in WITE as things stand.<br/> <br/> But beefing up CV factors in cities will also have the ...

Other info: Random weather, Full FOW, played with 1.03 beta 2 until turn 16.

Parameter #1 was most likely decisive. The Blizzard?

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: 2ndACR<br/> But that is what happens when you are kind of locked into a pattern. I know there will be blizzard from this date to this date, so I stop well in advance and prepare. What I would like to see is random winters, will it be as bad as the real 41 winter or...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: heliodorus04<br/> <br/> 2) A flanking modifier to CVs must be imposed on defenders when attacked from multiple hexsides. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Well, probably beyond the scope of a patch. But it would surely drive a stake through the heart of the 'checker bo...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: bevans<br/> <br/> Finally, the terrain, especially swamps, along the Dnepr, make the replication of the actual rate of advance by the Germans impossible to replicate against a competent defense (see first point). The AI in fact seems to be well programmed to do thi...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: JAMiAM<br/> I don't see them changing the code so drastically as to implement that more realistic model, but the hex level degeneration would be extremely easy to implement. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> That works. The goal is to apply some costs for formations co...

<t> One potential issue I have with the game is the ability of units, usually Germans, to make 'free' deliberate attacks along the line, often from Forts, on the enemy and not be compelled to advance into the vacated hex if successful. Yes, there's the supply expenditure, but it seems the attacker s...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: timmyab<br/> <br/> I want to be able to feel the personalities of my generals on the battlefield in a very obvious way and I'm not getting that at the moment. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Agreed. The effect is there but it could be 'felt' better. If there was a wa...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Ketza<br/> <br/> <br/> This solution seems to be a political/strategic point system of some type linked with territory ownage. Both sides need some type of reward for actually holding different areas of the map other then the resource/industry factor. <e>[/quote]</...

Yes, more small scenarios. Even 2-3 turns, e.g., Manstein's attempted relief of Stalingrad.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Avenger<br/> <br/> Take these three points and Leningrad will be considered surrounded, <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Yep. But you have to pass through dreadful terrain to get to those ports. Armoured units in this area are about as useful as snow plows in Miami.<b...

<r> So close. But yet so far:<br/> <br/> <IMG src="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/22863/A661047A28814C9AA01F42E278BC9C73.jpg"><s>[img]</s><URL url="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/upfiles/22863/A661047A28814C9AA01F42E278BC9C73.jpg"><LINK_TEXT text="https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/u...

Why not? It might work. One assumes the game doesn't aspire to simulate the demoralisation inherent in giving up previously conquered territory.

Arstavidios has performed an interesting stress test on the system, imo.

Arstavidios' strategy may work within the confines of computer ones and zeros. Or a robotic alternate universe. In reality, the retreating German formations would suffer a fatal hit to their 'global morale' and never get off the carpet again.

Nice to have but perhaps lengthy in execution.

Hehe. This thread reminds of that classical Mitchell & Webb routine: 'Skulls'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEle_DLDg9Y

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: sztomcat<br/> <br/> You can see my successful cutting off at <URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2660227&mpage=1&key=&#65533"><LINK_TEXT text="tm.asp?m=2660227&mpage=1&key=&#65533">http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: jjdenver<br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Pford<br/> Is Gary going to revisit the- allegedly gamey- checker board strategy?<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> I think that issue is way overblown. It's not a game breaker as far as I can tell. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <b...

Is Gary going to revisit the- allegedly gamey- checker board strategy?