Quick warning to those following: for the scripted Guards promotions, I did not receive any. Most of the VVS was in the reserve when it was due to happen, so that may be the issue. Not raised a bug report yet - will go back to an earlier save and see if bringing them out of the reserve makes a ...

Great AAR, learning a great deal from your work.

I know that, understandably, you are employing the VVS en masse to inflict casualties on the Germans. But I was wondering what your experience was of the ability to improve the pilot skill levels via flying missions. My general impression is that ...

Great AAR, learning a great deal from your work.

I know that, understandably, you are employing the VVS en masse to inflict casualties on the Germans. But I was wondering what your experience was of the ability to improve the pilot skill levels via flying missions. My general impression is that ...

Quick clarifications:

This was after three games in a row on an "easy" resource and pop rich start (I was specifically looking for a "big" game where there was not much resource constraint)
Difficulty was Extreme. (A very quick fix would be to make difficulty level severely impact diplomacy chances ...

Right now diploannex of minors is very easy and the AI does not do it at all, making even Nemesis games non-challenging for any map with a reasonable number of minors.

Two suggested fixes:

1) Have a mechanism for Majors (especially a nemesis) to diploannex minors, to allow them to compete with ...

What planet settings have you tested this on? I'm interested to know if you've managed to get this working outside of Siwa-like planets without lots of friendly farmers.


I was playing on Unclassified as it appears that's the only one you can enable the Ocean DLC on. However you have a fair ...

I realise the answer is going to be "don't annex/unify minors" if you want a challenging game, but I was wondering if I was missing something. I'm playing with the Nemesis option enabled, along with the one to make minors more aggressive, but still the same process every game: 1. Boost relations ...

Thanks for pointing out the issue and the solution. We've made the change to the OB file and hope to release with a new beta version next week. Unfortunately as it's a data issue, only games started with the new file will create guards tank corps when you use 2 guards brigades.


I take it there ...

When modding the TOE(OB), I found some issue with the Guards Tank Corps. I think one of them may also be the possible cause of this reported problem as well, see https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=4969428#p4969428 .

My guess is that in one patch (1.02.01?), TOE(OB) for 42a guards ...

Well I should have checked before jumping to that conclusion. I actually have 2700 ZiS-3s in stock, ready for conversion. It would be good to know what the trigger for non-direct production is. Is it 10 times the weekly production perhaps - with a 280 per week I suppose that would fit. Please ...

Maybe it should be changed to direct production? would require a reduced build limit for the Field Gun version to compensate.
Getting AT-Guns will always be an issue with no stock of the field guns


Well I should have checked before jumping to that conclusion. I actually have 2700 ZiS-3s in ...

Hi, can I get confirmation that there's a fix for this in the works? I've just realised any Soviet player heading into '43 with a decent number of Guards Tank Brigades will have to scrap them in order to let his Tank Corps promote to Guards. Which is a touch ridiculous.

So sorry, was comparing with a previous game to see if I could make sense of it, as there does seem to be a delay between availability and actual production. From what you are saying, is it possible then that a surplus of ZiS-3s or equivalent need to be available for conversion? I have a larger army ...

Ok, this is a strange one - Sept '42 and I have a bunch of Anti-tank regiments/brigades sitting with no guns in the Reserve, because we're not producing any 76.2 ZiS AT guns. Should be 50/turn from Mar '42, but we've produced a grand total of 1. All other 76.2 arty models being produced fine, and so ...

Ok, so a bit of a misunderstanding here - yes, there's potential for abuse, but it's limited.

You can build 15 airborne brigades on top of the existing ones which are due to disband (and cannot be used for guards divisions therefore). On the first turn of March '42 you can build these up into 5 ...

Are you using the Beta? It's presently bugged. Reported here:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 7&t=378965

I'm not sure what kind of priority it has for a fix, so a bump may be in order.

1941 GC
Axis Challenging AI
Soviet Experienced (WITE, WITE2)
1.02.18Beta
HWM 574
T169 Soviet resignation as unable to break German lines
Losses Axis/Soviet
Men 4018k/11101k
AFV 24720/67831
Aircraft 15522/36071

Huh. Well, no, it's not in the manual, but it definitely used to be possible, and is mentioned in the pearls of wisdom.

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=5013961

In the attached save I've played on until April, and got a GTC promotion from wins, so I definitely have room for more GTCs at 29% Guards motorised. 2 GTBs and an MotB available to form a GTC, instead they create a TC.

<t> Ok, turns out this is a problem after all. Once I hit December 42 I got a series of TC->GTC promotions and thought all was well. Then in March 43 I collected some more GTBs to build GTCs. The interface did not recognise 2 GTB + 1 MotB as producing a GTC, and built TCs instead. Deploying them ...