Always disgusted to see how many fascists and crypto-fascists play this game, and easily fall for (neo-)nazi ideology and fairy tales. Let's hope they all are plainly ignorant and harmless...

<t> If you finish a turn closer than 10 hexes to an factory location, that factory will be gone in the next turn.<br/>
I think it is 10 hexes (roughly), please correct me if I am wrong.<br/>
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the AI has no rail cap limit, but only rolls out the factory that are threatened (10hex rule), so ...

<t> I guess capping the rail link will prevent evacuation, at least in my present game I trapped the factories in Leningrad...<br/>
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but generally, the AI evac rules are retarded. They lead to an unrealistic style of play because industry can only be destroyed by making huge leaps (because of ...

<r> post#5 "the Russians may well not have beaten back the German invasion."<br/>
Glantz says (somewhere) that without lend-lease it would have taken the Soviets about one year longer to destroy the Nazi empire. <br/>
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To "save" the Soviets, the help really arrived too late, when the ...

Any news from the linux front? Works nicely with 1.00 (running Ubuntu 11.04), but I'm also not able to update the game...

<t> Well, a lot of untested hypothesis floating around:<br/>
- how to break red army: Arm, AP or manpower<br/>
- Blitzkrieg: encircle vs. spearhead<br/>
- winter strategy<br/>
- importance of leningrad and moscow<br/>
etc.<br/>
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You could run some serious statistical analysis to test ...

novgorod+bridgehead across volkhov = right hook threat, also unhinges luga-line. but this really only comes into play when you are not able to cut the the leningrad railway directly and early on, i think.

<t> I find that the AP cost to attach corps/army HQs to different superior HQs is ridiculously high. up to 60 AP to attach a puny army to a different front (12.2.1)? If you fail leadercheck, it's cheaper to disband it and build a new one (25AP)...<br/>
Also starting a 42/43 campaign is no fun as ...

<r> The whole "theory" is an aberration. <SIZE size="5"><s>[size="5"]</s><SIZE size="3"><s>[size="3"]</s><SIZE size="2"><s>[size="2"]</s> "a million paratroopers !!", that sounds convincing! The most obvious lunacy of this stuff is to portray the Red army as this massive, mobilized and prepared ...

<t> Granted, to some people numbers (and facts) are boring. It's much more interesting to read made-up fantasy novels like Suvorov stuff. But dont expect me to tolerate those guys that propagate this fascist-enabling counter-factual bullshit. As you see how the thread is named, some want to disguise ...

<r> "This premise makes far more sense than the history of the Eastern Front I was raised on." this makes me really angry, but shows which agenda is pursued by <SIZE size="5"><s>[size="5"]</s><SIZE size="3"><s>[size="3"]</s><SIZE size="2"><s>[size="2"]</s> Suvorov and his ilk<e>[/size]</e></SIZE><e ...

Flaviusx, you are probably right (though I think you could mix my proposal with hard cap), but your comment (admittedly taken out of context) still made me smile:

"German players would [...] totally ignore logistical constraints"

Talk about realism...

<t> I'm not sure what the effect of the new 20MP rule will be for game balance, but I see why some people dont like it. The cut-off point is really quite arbitrary and constrains the freedom of choice. Another idea would be to let AP and truck costs rise exponentially with distance/MPs to railhead ...

<t> @heliodorus04: The overall lines of your argument may be valid, youre probably a more experienced player, but that the routing routine is a "necessary abstraction given the IGOUGO" doesnt make sense to me. in one week, some disorganized unit in the open with no line to fall back to gets chopped ...

<t> Nobody wants to touch the big issues... [:)]<br/>
So lets talk about routing: <br/>
as it is, it really favors Soviet human because AI doesnt encircle, German human has to spend extra Mps to not touch routed units (annoying).<br/>
My proposition: routed units have probability to bounce (~25 ...

<t> @murat<br/>
I know that morale is the most important variable. My point was that game balance, historical outcome, is achieved by morale and weather changes. Thats why I called the modelling pseudo-realistic, it gets the outcomes kind of right, but not how it comes about. Then of course you ...

thanks, didnt remember that.
concerning how much missing ammo affects combat, I only found this: "If less than 50%, the combat unit will likely get fewer shots"
Doesnt sound like a harsh penalty...

<t> Just read Glantz's stumbling colossus (chapters on ground force readiness - Impressive data by the way...) which made me reassess my judgement of how appropriate early period (Barbarossa) is modelled. <br/>
Always smelt sth fishy about the morale/weather modelling decisions... Kind of ...