You've delayed him so long in France he must be doomed. In retrospect, maybe putting more British reinforcements in France you would have been able to actually hold it?

<t> Take a mine that has 5 health points and produces 2 MPP per turn per health point. Left alone that mine will give 50 MPP over the next 5 turns. One hit from a strategic bomber at level 4 will probably level that mine, so over the next turns it produces 0,2,4,6,8 MPP, or 20 total. So one strike ...

<t> Did you check the levels of equipment in the pool? When I encountered this before, it just seemed the case that my army's total ability to accept reinforcements (about 250k a turn) couldn't keep up with the rate that blizzard attrition was dumping manpower and equipment back in Germany. Distance ...

How many German rifle squads are in the pool? If there's manpower but no equipment in the pool, it's an armaments problem. If there's manpower AND equipment in the pool, then it's a reinforcement rate problem.

<t> Pelton, are you sure it's a bug? Check the number of rifle squads (i.e. rifle squad equipment) you have in your pool. In my games, the Germans can build up a huge amount of manpower and equipment in the pool that they can't move to the front. The way I understand it, due to the way damage ...

<t> If it's true that Q-Ball has lost less than 15% of his industry and 40% or so loss rate leads to roughly historical capacity, doesn't that indicate that something is seriously out of balance?<br/>
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After all, Tarhunnas has accomplished quite a bit in terms of destroying Soviet industry ...

Wow, you seem to be a real monster at this game, particularly on the offensive. I'm also impressed by who quickly the two of you can crank out the turns. I'd be interested to see how this scenario plays out with the roles reversed, now that you've both learned a bit.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Q-Ball<br/>
Big Anorak cites 16K as the Rifle Squad number that leads to collapse. Did you really lose 8K Rifle Squads in 2 turns? That's bad. Real bad.
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I don't think he's really lost those squads, they are just sitting in the ...

<t> It seems that you are trying to get at the Sov's overall manpower situation. So you can look at it two ways:<br/>
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1. Look at what you've lost (lower is better), both direct losses to manpower and losses to manpower generators. So something like the number of killed captured, plus half ...

<t> Yes, only partly jest. Sure, your opponent can do a lot in a weekly turn, but it forces you to plan a bit, try to project where he's going. I think that daily turns would allow you to react too quickly to developing problems.&nbsp; It would require some different mechanics to model the delay in ...

Probably a better simulation of 41 would have the Germans running on 3 day turns and the Russians running on 1-week turns

<t> Jokes aside, I don't think Tarhunnas has a goal of knocking them out of the war. Just inflicting more losses on the Sovs than historical and suffering fewer losses should set him up well for later. Even if the balance of forces is worse for him in '43 than it was in '42, it will still be ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: mikemcmann<br/>
The only final score comes in May, three years later....
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Take a look at this <URL url="http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2749221"><s>[url=http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2749221]</s>AAR<e>[/url ...

<t> Yeah, I think an attack against an empty hex should be allowed, for the reasons you state. It doesn't make sense for the defender to be able to control the hex when there is no unit defending, but lose the hex if they have a defender. If a hex adjacent to an enemy is 'controlled', then they must ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Lava<br/>
To be quite frank, what happened during the blizzard was pretty much what I thought would occur based on history... at least vs the AI.
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I think 'vs the AI' is key. The AI is fairly timid on the attack and doesn't seem ...

Ah, my apologies.

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Klydon<br/>
Too bad you could not get one more hex with the motorized troops from the standpoint of view that he will be able to rail in fresh troops to Leningrad if he has them.
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I didn't think you could rail troops through a ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: IdahoNYer<br/>
At the southern end of the line, Soviet's keep pressure up against 11th Army, but surprisingly, leave 17th Army alone. Very surprised at the lack of a thrust against Kharkov.
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Well, attacks cost him manpower too, and ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: raizer<br/>
You talking about leaving the finns and ang to hold lennigrad, I dont think but 2 people have taken lenningrad playing against another person since the game came out
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I can think of a few. It seems to be a reasonably ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: alfonso<br/>
What matters here is, in my opinion, the effect of that model in the game. Is it reasonable for a unit to duplicate, triplicate, quadruplicate, etc…its defensive potential in n1, n2, n3 weeks? I have zero idea of this, and I have read nothing in ...