there was some kind of bug early in the game resulting in huge ai interception fleets. make sure you updated the game.
if you play the ai it may makes sense to cheat a little: look where his air bases are and do some attacks on them on the first turn.

could you pls post some screens?

<t> Hugolin: the thing is that there are no troops in Stalingrad. And as a soviet commander you are constantly dealing with fronts that are about to collapse. so it is a tough question when to start sending precious units to build a front at Stalingrad.<br/>
Playing the Soviets really is a nerve ...

the game is really well balanced. a good axis player will make you run. a mediocre axis player against a capable soviet defender will stall soon. the game is absolutely winnable for the axis

<t> The Soviets will rush to open supply lines to Sevastopol. i guess one option is to sacrifice your KM and interdict this as long as possible. A soviet landing is possible. there are enough ships to transport a fair amount of troops. keep important places guarded. but if the Axis offensive is ...

would it be a lot of work to make this also playable in DC2?
i gave it a short go and being Swiss i will go deeper into it.
thanks for making this Ernie!

there are some mods doing different unit graphics. pull the trigger, it's a great system

<t> you can create an aa unit. you can assign it to a different army. but you cannot decide how many inf units the aa has. the aa unit is a preset. but as i said earlier: the game is not about creating units at all. you do not have the means to build lot's of units and fill them with troops. <br ...

<t> units receive replacements from the hq. you can set priorities where they go first. but you cannot individually send them. you also can create units from scratch. but it will take a lot of turns to build them up. the german have very low reinforcements and the soviets have high losses that suck ...

or even better DC: East Front 1914:1917

<r> Vic talks about the importance of the editor. considering this and looking at his previous games i strongly believe he will refrain from doing endless tweakable complex rules. so far he enhanced his engine from at to dc1 to dc2 very elegantly. my guess is that his full east front game will be a ...

first day purchase here too. i am excited!

<t> that was quite a relief to read. i have to check how Oliviers defence did compared to mine in losses/kills. i think the difference is not that big. even though i avoided big encirclements the carpet style defence works exactly like Isokron predicted: lots of small victories for the axis with ...

<t> what do you think, is it possible to cut off Rostow with a bombing campaign from getting reinforcments from the Caucasus? in my game Olivier reached Rostow real fast and i was only holding to it by chance. if he destroyed some bridges he might been able to overrun it on turn 4. that would be a ...

i currently play Olivier as soviet player. great to see this and to be able to compare. in our game we got sunny weather until July 16th... and here he has mud already on turn two. lucky guy. how is the airway? did the soviet make some sorties or interceptions?

I go you go

i hipe you guys are doing one or two aar's on your game. this coild later be sold ad the definite guide to proper wargaming.

reassigning units cost pp and command points. i think it costs readiness too. i am not sure if it is worth all those penalties.

very nice!
the only small thing: i would like to get away with the mahagony table and have just something more neutral there as the map and counters are allready very colorful

wow very cool! great graphics