Political decisions (meddling) were certainly Hitler's forte to a major extent and to a lesser extent for Stalin as well. I agree with that. If we're sticking to historical precedent, there was a political decision to divert 4th Panzer Army from Army Group North (AGN) since armor was needed for the ...

My point was less about the fortified zones and more about the fact that troops only dig in above a superficial level when in contact? Enemy contact should not be something that increases the ability to construct basic trench fortifications.

I'm not trying to rebuild the Panther line here (manual ...

Thank you for your response.

I take it that this is the relevant section from the manual I missed:
Fortification Levels 2 or 3: Must either be 1) adjacent to an enemy hex , or 2) a City/Urban/Heavy Urban terrain
hex, or 3) contain a port (of any size), or 4) contain a fortified zone unit in the hex ...

I'm playing the German side in the 1941 campaign and I'm setting up for the incoming winter. The weather has been raining and I understand that heavy rain/heavy mud drastically slows down entrenchment, but I have units that have not improved over entrenchment level 1 +10% for up to 5 turns/weeks now ...

<r> (u) generally denotes unready. Usually this happens because the unit is below a minimum TOE%/morale. For a support unit it generally means they are going to sit on the sideline until they receive replacement and improve morale. For a standalone combat unit it means you probably want to get them ...

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This makes the choices interesting. If there would be PP for everything, they would be useless.
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Agreed, but that doesn't mean that there isn't a middle ground that could take the current command points that ...

<t> Although I agree that the easiest workaround is to just transfer excess units out of an army, I also don't understand why it costs the same number of points to transfer an empty army as it does an army that is at maximum capacity with 9-12 divisions in it. An army that has no units attached to ...

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The original question was raised because Dinglir lost 80% of his attacking bombers on a night mission vs. an airbase. I'm now assuming those were all due to German flak, which ...

<r> <LINK link="http://imgur.com/a/pfQ7Q"><s>[link=http://imgur.com/a/pfQ7Q]</s>Air Resupply Casualties<e>[/link]</e></LINK><br/>
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Hoping that a screenshot might help? Anybody have any insight as to why air resupply is so deadly or how to make it less deadly?<br/>
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Also still hoping ...

<t> The British were fairly accomplished at engaging Luftwaffe night fighters, but they worked hard to make it work and they were the pioneers in airborne radar equipped fighters from the start. They deployed their first radar equipped night fighters in 1939 and it still took years before they ...

<t> Does anybody have any info on what the difference in effectiveness of the various Soviet construction units for repairing railroads?<br/>
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Also, is there any reason why air resupply drops are so lethal to the bomber/transport crews? I'm looking at my resupply runs and I will regularly ...

<t> Bumping my old thread here with a few follow-up questions - is there an optimal way to build units that will repair railroads for the least cost in admin points and/or manpower used?<br/>
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Playing the same campaign ('41 USSR) and it looks like I can create Engineer-Sapper brigades for 3 ...

<t> I'm sure there have been discussions on this before, but is there a reason why the attrition casualties are so HUGE compared to direct high intensity combat? I'm not sure I've ever delivered (or taken) more than 10-20k casualties in a week/turn of direct combat (obviously I'm not including ...

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See 1.08.00 new feature #138
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Ouch - it looks like I've found the patch note you mentioned detailing the change which just never made it into the manual. I'd been using them half and half as reserves (many of ...

<t> Section 18.5.1 talks about all of the NKVD Border Regiments disbanding at a rate that I would think they would all be gone by the end of September 1941. I'm in October of 1941 and I still have 25 of the original 36(?) NKVD Border Regiments and there have been 0 NKVD disbands in the last 4 turns ...

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I think it's a good dampener preventing you from exploiting the AI weakness further <E>:)</E> You'll have to wait until 1942 to drive into Hungary.
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I have checked ...

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I guess those units are not allowed outside Soviet Union in 1941. Otherwise they should be fine repairing rail away from enemy. Are they in the stranded HQs or in some other HQs on the right side of the broken tracks?
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<t> I'm playing vs AI as the Soviets in the 1941 campaign (currently turn 15 in September '41) and there are a few spots where I have torn up tracks that I need repaired. The Soviets don't get NKPS units until September of 1942 so I need to figure out which support units I need to create to allow ...

<t> Just gonna stick with what I have a rough idea on and let the more experienced players take the others.<br/>
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2) You want to make sure that your combat units stay within 5 hexes of their commanding HQ if possible so they will be able to get full resupply. I believe it is default that if ...

<t> Very basic tip here that I'm sure every experienced player knows, but make sure you use Security division units to garrison the critical towns (Shift-K Show Axis garrison requirement - Red = No Garrison, Yellow = 1-99% Garrison, Blue = 100%+ Garrison) since they count double for garrisoning ...