<t> Ok, thanks again guys for the tips. Now that I have a better idea of what I should be building, I will persist a little longer. I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't missing anything too obvious. I don't want to sound like I am dissing the game too much, but I was feeling a bit let down with ...

<t> Thanks everyone for the advice on unit composition - it all helps a lot.<br/>
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I'm still a little bummed that it's not faster to create units. I know it's not "hard" per se, but wow - tedious. Seems like each player could define their favorite unit templates and then crank them out in one ...

<t> Recently got the game and really struggling to learn it (and I play AGEOD titles). Here are my current questions:<br/>
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1) is there a hotkey to cycle through all your units to make sure you have moved them?<br/>
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2) I've been playing random scenarios, and I have to create lots of ...

<t> This is not a great response since I only played a little of TOAW and TOAW2, and I never played FITE. But, it's enough to make me think that Larry must be right: a game engine designed for the Eastern Front full campaign must have some advantages. TOAW always seemed to try to do too much, be too ...

<t> Very nice to see another AAR of a short scenario from the noob perspective. These are very helpful to beginners, I think. I'm looking forward to seeing how things go/went. I remember this being a hard scenario, and I didn't get a good result (medium difficulty with FoW). I think I had a minor ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: coolts<br/>
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Quick question. It looks like you have avoided the mistake i've made twice in this scenario. I tend to get the 17th bogged down around the carpathians clearing out russians in the mountains. What were you doing in the south? Did you abandon ...

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I do have to ask: to me 6th army is light purple and 17th is a light red. Color blindness for someone? Me?
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You caught me! I am mildly color-blind. Mildly enough to fake it enough of the time and then be surprised when ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Decisive Victory!<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Everything turned out much better than expected. I earned a Decisive Victory with a VP ratio of 5.8 to 1. I captured everything except Nikolaev, and I was close to that. Soviet losses were 760,000 men to my 100,000 and 3000 planes to my ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Turn 8<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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The last few turns see the encirclement of Kiev and the destruction of Soviet forces in the pocket. Here is the situation at the end of turn 8. Notice that my main line southwest of Kiev is only lightly held, mostly with regimental-sized units ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Turn 5: Results<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Here is the situation at the end of the same turn. You can see that a couple divisions from the 17th Army (light red) made it forward to start the probing attacks. I even brought up some force from the 11th Army (in blue) that started in ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Turn 5<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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Aerial reconnaissance at the beginning of turn 5 shows that the Russians have formed a second defensive line between Vinnitsa and Cherkassy. This reminds me of the Smolensk scenario I played earlier and how the German advance tends to bog down. I ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Turn 3<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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The first two turns are pretty smooth, and the 1st Panzer Group is on schedule heading towards Vinnitsa. I have to start thinking about the Russian units on the long north and south flanks. The south flank is easier. There are not so many Russian ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Initial Plan<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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A quick look at the victory point locations shows that Kiev is the big prize (duh), followed by Odessa. I’ll focus on Kiev and hope that the forces in Romania (not shown in the image) can slug their way to Odessa. Pushing towards Kiev should ...

<r> <B><s>[b]</s>Introduction<e>[/b]</e></B><br/>
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There are not too many AARs on these forums about the shorter, “Road To”, scenarios and not many from noobs like myself. So, here is one for the Road to Kiev scenario (Normal difficulty), the first time I’ve played it (v1.03 official). Prior ...

<t> I haven't played the Leningrad scenario, so that might be a good one. But I thought Kiev was a good starter scenario (well, after Minsk). The only bad thing is that you have a multinational force with Romanians, Hungarians, Slovaks, etc. It sort of clutters the order of battle, and the non ...

<t> Yes. The smallest scenario is Minsk, only 3 turns and probably 50-70 units. It can probably be played in about two hours or so. You will get tired of it quickly, but it is a good way to practice and get to know the system. <br/>
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After that, there are the "Road to X" scenarios, which are ...

<t> I've played Road to Smolensk only once and had the same issue you did with the defensive line along the two rivers and a very deep Soviet defense of the land bridge. I think I managed only a minor defeat. As a noob, it's nice to see a short, concise AAR from someone learning the system. And, yes ...

<t> Nice to see a short AAR from a fellow noob. I've learned a bunch from the forums, but a lot of the posts are too long, detailed, or advanced to be useful to me yet. Any chance of getting just a bit more? Two or three screenshots during the scenario with a bit of commentary about key decisions ...