Glad to see this AAR continue. It has been a wonderful read so far.

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They got out through the port. You have to lock down pockets against the AI 100%, otherwise it will use the smallest means available to make a clean getaway. It needs all the help it can get.<br/>
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Even against a human player this ...

<t> Yesterday, in my full campaign played with the Soviets I surrounded roughly two dozen German (AI) divisions in Courland. It is august '44, three of them are rather strong but I have them fully surrounded but for a single small port which is 5 hexes to the rear of their frontline. A little to the ...

Reading up on your AAR now and I am really enjoying it. One question though. Do you use a mod to get all the placenames of the smaller towns on the map? It looks good and gives you more of an objective so I would like to use it as well.

Continue the good work!

It is '42 and I bottled up the Crimea from the isthmus. I have not sealed the Crimea from the Kuban area yet however. The Soviet defence seams pretty strong, 50+ and fortifactions are 4 or 5 in strength. How do I crack it?

<t> I was in about the same position you are in at the end of the winter (against AI). During the winter I had been pushed back 5 to 10 hexes on the entire front. Contrary to most here I think you should play on through '42. I did and am having a great game. At the moment I am in turn 72 (late ...

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although I've only played WitE and Achtung Panzer recently.

I loved Achtung Panzer, any news on that front, an expansion comming out etc?

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bwhealty also posted that he feels the loses to a hasty attack should be on average more than deliberate attacks. I agree and I think logically in most cases it makes perfect sense. Deliberate attacks have invested the time to scout best ...

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Still blizard in turn 41? O boy.....(I am currently in turn 33 and hard pushed on several parts of the front).
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How realistic is it to have a ...

Still blizard in turn 41? O boy.....(I am currently in turn 33 and hard pushed on several parts of the front).

Had to format my HD recently so I only have the following games:

WITE
Sid Meiers Gettysburg
Hearts of Iron III
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Napoleon: Total War

Before that I had many, many more.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: redmarkus4<br/>
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- Finally, we need to see the AI make some random (and stupid) offensives, to add the human error that is an essential part of military conflict. At the moment the AI plays it too safe strategically, IMO.
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<t> That was very interesting to see. At turn 22 my situation was about the same as yours. I however did not employ a checkerboard defence and used the panzergroups as direct reserve for the frontline unit. It is now turn 32 and I am pushed back slowly but not pushed hard. I might lose Smolensk ...

Why don't you move into Bulgaria then?

Question is quite simple isn't it. Did anyone start the GC in '41 and either lost Moscow and Leningrad as the Soviets or was pushed back into Germany as the Axis. Thus, anybody lost from the AI or came close to doing so?

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In my first Axis GC, I didn't take anything in 1941, got Leningrad in 1942, got Moscow in 43, and got Stalingrad in 44.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Glad to hear there's still something after this terrible winter. I wasn't conservative and ...

<r> I haven't seen anyone recommending <LINK link="http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Dnepr-Zhokov-Timoshenko-Barbarossa/dp/0891415297"><s>[link=http://www.amazon.com/Thunder-Dnepr-Zhokov-Timoshenko-Barbarossa/dp/0891415297]</s>Thunder on the Dnepr<e>[/link]</e></LINK>. I have been reading this book at ...

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BTW, does anyone think that the difference in "mud-season" between Soviet territory and Central Europe should be more pronounced?
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<t> Looking forward to playing as the Germans in the 1941 scenario. But for now I am enjoying myself a lot playing the other side.<br/>
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Hitler lost the war in Russia when he made the huge mistake to treat the Ukranians and Perhaps the Bello-Russians as well as subhumans. So, in '33 or ...

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