Hi,

I'm looking for a relatively high tempo pbem (or pbem++) game. I'll play either side.

I have finished one solo campaign on each side.

Regards.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It was pretty clear from the beginning that the designers intended for the Soviets to be much more flexible in Army building, and given them the opportunity to form an idealized Red Army rather than to repeat the historical course, and thus necessarily mistakes, that the ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Denniss<br/>
Rudel did indeed disable that many tanks, how many of them were repairable later is not known.
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There is no way to know for sure. When figures are available from both sides of an encouter (claim from 1 side, losses ...

<t> All the "historical" figures cited here have little to no value. They are "claim", nothing more. And the airmen always made huge overclaims since the begining of air power, whatever the target.<br/>
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Destroying a tank with plane was something difficult in WWII, especially with bombs. When ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>It would have been costly some thing like 6,000 but it would have have changed the whole balance in the Med! <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Even worse than Malta, the biggest pb in Lybia was port capacity and the lack of railway. Malta made the problem worse, because ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch<br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: Rafo<br/>
Actually, as Betchley wrote, the main problem with the rules (at least in 41) is that it allows the Germans to make pockets with thin air by converted hex. The cost of ennemy hex is not much for ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Personally, I think there is something really wrong here. The Soviet player, Flaviusx, is basically cheating. Call it the "retreat gambit". He is cheating because he forces the Axis player to have to expend movements points just to come to grips. It is a gambit based on the ...

On the other hand, most of the pockets of the real war, if not all of them, needed some help from the other side. [;)]

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Looking for an opponent for a GC41-45, full FOW, pbem. Weather as you like.<br/>
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I have had far too many aborted games for various reasons (from lack of free time to FUBAR situations, both with the Germans and the Soviet), so please, answer only if your experienced ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> In real life 2 of the 3 front were demolished from the getgo. The Lvov gambit turns it into 3. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/>
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Yep, and the 2 out of 3 fronts were hopelessly outnumbered and unprepared. This wasn't the case for the 3rd one since the south axis is where ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: heliodorus04<br/>
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The German has so many disadvantages over his historic counterpart in that the Soviet player won't repeat any of the mistakes that his predecessor did. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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He also has a lot of advantages, like knowing precisely ...

<r> Great AAR.<br/>
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One observation :<br/>

<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>these air losses are perhaps the lowest I've got from a human opponent on turn 1. I don't know whether Q-Ball refrained of pushing too hard the Luftwaffe on the VVS airfields.<e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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In my GC41 ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Here are the numbers for the germans I found: <URL url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Military_Casualties_by_branch_of_service"><LINK_TEXT text="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_ ... of_service">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II ...

Hi,

I'd like to start a new pbem GC41 with either side, preferably against an experienced opponent.

Full FOW. You can choose the weather setting.

The target would be roughly 2-3 turns a week.

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>Just compare what Plan Marshall was and meant for Germany and many other Western countries, and now compare that with the settlement of 1919. And by Western allies, I basically mean France, sorry, Clemenceau. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>
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The Plan Marshall had nothing to ...

<r> Tooze is not the first one to have written about all the investments made by the Germans before 42 and how those investments were one of the major explanation of the later results. Iit doesn't mean there wasn't room of improvement before 42, though.<br/>
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<I><s>[i]</s>I love Battle Cry ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: heliodorus04<br/>
What's the counter-balance? If you incentivize something to a high degree, shouldn't there be counter-balances?<br/>
What happens if you use all your AGS panzers in the pursuit of Smolensk/Rzhev/Moscow but you ignore Kiev and Dnepropetrovsk ...

<t> I think Leningrad is way overrated in most Axis players strategy, but I also agree with most people saying that Moscow is not given its due.<br/>
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I think there is a simple way too improve Moscow value, easy to implement :<br/>
- divide by 2 the Soviet rail capacity as long as Moscow is ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>This was with a roughly historical size mobile force. (36-40 tank/mech corps is about the historical maximum, with a 2:1 ratio between tank and mech corps.)
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If I remember correctly, the historical mechanized soviet forces peaked at 26 ...

<t> If you don't want boring opening move, just don't make them.<br/>
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Some think Leningrad is a no brainer in 41 ? Then make a credible feint toward it the first few turns (until Pskov is taken for instance) and then redirect PZG4 quickly on your true goal (forget about Riga -> it could be ...