<t> Update: I decided to play the GC once more on Rommel, strictly without reloads, without "Chess" and also without a mod (to see if I can really beat the original game before turning to a mod). <br/>
The biggest impact so far was the missing "Chess"-cheat - some bad die-rolls in the early ...

<r> It's taken a while as I don't have much time to play and also had to take many breaks in order to not get bored too much but today I finally finished the Grand Campaign East victoriously.<br/>
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I must say I cannot confirm that things got tougher in the later years. I easily DV'd every ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: kirk23<br/>
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Well I must say I disagree with the logic...<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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So do I, actually I disagree with how the game handles a lot of things. But I was basically told that the game designers decided that playability and balance have a ...

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For your information, I've started to design a pseudo-historical setup for all the purists. ...

Will you also do the Russian front?

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Orm<br/>
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Petrograd bombardment can be stopped by making the city a port. Something I think should be done anyway... <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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That should definitely be changed. Of course Petrograd had a fortress and a naval port (Kronstadt) to ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: kirk23<br/>
As for Britain only having 1 Battlefleet I can only repeat what John McEnroe famously shouted YOU CANNOT BE SERIOUS !![&:]<br/>
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Apparently this was done intentionally by the developers: <br/>

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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Myrddraal<br/>
we have a set of game rules which, despite relative simplicity, almost always lead to historical advances in the early war, stagnation along historical frontlines in the middle war, the economic deterioration of economies and manpower shortages ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Forwarn45<br/>
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EDIT: There is also the matter of Mexico and the Zimmerman telegram. I don't want to dismiss the fact that there were other tensions between Germany and the US.
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The Zimmermann telegram was only ...

<t> Warspite - very easy. Simply replicate the historical situation: AH armies at the Russian border but facing even stronger (numerically) Russian forces. <br/>
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Btw AH's troops were, on average, decidedly inferior to the German, not least in terms of morale and fighting spirit, which had a ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Myrddraal<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>There were deliberate design decisions to misrepresent the historical situation to balance the game and because the game engine is not able to simulate the historical events correctly. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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I find ...

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Keke - I know that it's impossible for a strategy game to perfectly simulate the historical conditions but in my opinion if a game deliberately alters the historical situation to a significant ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: warspite1<br/>
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... You could have the most comprehensive, detailed OOB in the world, but as soon as something happens outside of actual history (caused by a lucky/unlucky dice throw or a player mistake) you potentially start a chain reaction that moves ...

<t> Keke - I know that it's impossible for a strategy game to perfectly simulate the historical conditions but in my opinion if a game deliberately alters the historical situation to a significant extent in order to achieve playability and balance it is not a serious conflict simulation. If that is ...

<t> What I take from this discussion is: There were deliberate design decisions to misrepresent the historical situation to balance the game and because the game engine is not able to simulate the historical events correctly. The more I see about the game the less I'm surprised about that inability ...

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1. ... Where are [AH's northern] armies??<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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You build them. Maybe you should also ask why there are hexes and counters, when they were not used in real life. [;)] <e ...

<t> After reading some promising reviews I had bought the game some time ago to have something to do during the holidays, but now that I got around to start playing my first 1914 campaign (CP) I immediately ran into some issues that to a certain extent dampened my motivation to immerse myself in the ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: gunnergoz<br/>
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Interesting - subs sinking convoys is what triggers the American entry into the war. Historical, for sure...<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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Actually subs sinking convoys was in itself not a problem historically. What brought America into ...

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...So yes, the final spark that exploded the situation probably came from the Central Powers, but the overall crisis was by no means only one side's fault, and I know that the vast majority of ...

<r> 7th Somersets - I absolutely fail to see what you get so upset about.<br/>
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In my original post I wrote <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> a recurring theme [in Tuchman's book] is that the French cause is just because they were fighting to "free" the French province of Alsace-Lorraine that had been ...

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Are you seriously suggesting that all of the lands of the Holy Roman Empire are 'German'? - 'had been German for many centuries'?!
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