Would someone advise on what type of HE round this gun used, and how effective it was against soft targets.

Two Rifle Corps in 1941, the option to build the full 1942 budget from the first week in January is something I will have to look into as that may be too many early on. Those should be two steps in 1942. 1943/44 limits are too high as well and splitting them may be required too.


To build 41 ...

Still there. An interesting option is to just ignore the guards division builds entirely and max out the airborne divisions towards the end of 1942. Then convert the airborne brigades to airborne divisions and you get close to 30 airborne divisions that themselves not too bad.

Quite a while ago, this Axis player on YouTube, Strategy Gaming Dojo, would livestream his campaign game. Those of us online cringed as he merged panzer divisions. So yeah, don't do that. The Soviets can get away with some of that. You can't.

TBH, I did this more times than I can say against jubjub in our game. But it begs the question, did you really win when it cost you 7-8 times the casualties? It just isn't the losses shown, but has yet to include those that are subsequently written off in death or long time injury recovery from the ...

Thanks Q-Ball, M60 and Wiedrock.

The Axis 1942 offensive took out about 1 Army of my forces. The front line runs roughly from Leningrad to Taganrog with a Eastward bulge South of Tula. I hold kerch.

Most of this line appears rock solid with Axis defensive CV typically > 30. I am not quite ...

Thanks Q-Ball, M60 and Wiedrock.

The Axis 1942 offensive took out about 1 Army of my forces. The front line runs roughly from Leningrad to Taganrog with a Eastward bulge South of Tula. I hold kerch.

Most of this line appears rock solid with Axis defensive CV typically > 30. I am not quite ...

Always keep in mind that mech and motor brigades are very vehicle intense. When you are gradually committing an increased number of vehicles to cope with increased artillery ammo needs, independent mech and motor brigades start to move to the luxury category, that is to say, you really can't afford ...

Hey M60, just wanted to say well played and thank you for sharing the game with us, it has been really enjoyable to follow.


Thanks, but in truth there was a whole lot I could have improved upon. After having played the Soviets so long once the game came out, I switched over to the Axis side for ...

Asking this for purposes of the Guards Cap.......

Is a MECH unit considered, for purposes of the Cap, an ARMOR unit or MOTORIZED unit?


AFAIK, it's neither. Mech is its own formation type, so it has its own guards cap. Because of this, just from a numbers standpoint it's easier to create more ...

Question on Soviets combining Rifle Bde to Division.

In 1943, the CAP on Rifle Division builds reduces to 8 (effectively stopping all Rifle Division Builds)

Does this ALSO prevent you from combining Rifle Brigades into Divisions?

I assume it does, but wanted to check

If that's the case, then ...

I mean, look at all the Zeros......I think this will stabilize somewhat; with the Nov '42 Manpower infusion I created alot of new Rifle Units (because it's the last chance and all), so unit creation will halt in 1943. This hopefully will stabilize some of these pools. I hope?

12-20-42pool.jpg ...

I actually never thought (or forgot) about your point of stacking penalties affecting the Tank corps proportionally more than the meatwave Rifle Corps. That's a rly good point. But I would propose a mix (combined arms, literally) Tank with Rifle is usually the best (adding CVs with Rifle ...

@M60: No he means 36gun Battalions, there is no limit on Mortar Battalions (you may mean the Brigades with 144 Mortars?).


No I meant the battalions. When checking my own build queue, i saw 16, but that was how many I had, not could build.

Still, the reason I didn't build many was there is ...

Back to the impact of size of the attacking force on combat, Gary said there could easily be different "size" formulas used for different parts of the game, but he can't remember details and he's not set up to look at the code now. Pavel's been gone this week, but it's very possible that the size ...

I assume you are looking at used and unused vehicles. Used does not equate to damaged vehicles. IIRC used are vehicles that were used at some point during the turn to truck goods.


Yes I was. Since units in TBs are not on a map, I don't think I want to know the logic around how many trucks the ...

One thing I had not realized is that on the production screen, the number of vehicles shown in depots also includes damaged vehicles that are displayed farther down. So if it says you have 150k trucks in the depots and 50k are under repair, you have 100k functional trucks in the depots.

If you ...

One thing I had not realized is that on the production screen, the number of vehicles shown in depots also includes damaged vehicles that are displayed farther down. So if it says you have 150k trucks in the depots and 50k are under repair, you have 100k functional trucks in the depots.


That ...

One thing I had not realized is that on the production screen, the number of vehicles shown in depots also includes damaged vehicles that are displayed farther down. So if it says you have 150k trucks in the depots and 50k are under repair, you have 100k functional trucks in the depots.

There is a lot here, I started writing a reply like 3 times and never got it done. :D

So a short question by me until I find the time to properly think.
What is your target % fulfillment of Trucks inside your MAP units? ....and why is it 100%? 8-) :mrgreen:


It's 100% because the minute it ...