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This is actually hilarious, as it perfectly reflects the thought process of the historical 1941 Germans.<br/>
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<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AlbertN<br/>
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The Soviet player has the benefit of overflow of tanks, planes, soldiers and guns. <br/>

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This is actually hilarious, as it perfectly reflects the thought process of the historical 1941 Germans.<br/>
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I'd estimate less than 5% would want that.

Just like with grossly overestimating German truck numbers and truck maintanence, it was a commercial decision you needed to make.

<t> I don't.<br/>
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The Red Air Force loses an ungodly number of transports running supplies in to air bases near the front, to bases that aren't actually important.<br/>
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I shake my head, and go 'Yeah, another couple of Air Army generals got sent to Siberia' and move on.<br/>
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And your Air Transport don't listen to 'Don't fly there, it's right next to enemy fighters'.\\

Bluntly, your air force is being run by drunk junkies.

And that's for the Soviets and Nazis.

Deal with it, and move on.

The bigger issue is the 'vision from God' where the player sees how good a general is.

Reality saw OKW/Stavka see generals win or lose battles, and that was it.

<t> The designers are stuck between a couple of rocks.<br/>
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On one hand, if they reflect the Soviet armies as they were, then players need to do a bunch of micro-management about how much of the artillery, trucks and tanks are sent to this army or that army.<br/>
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On the other hand ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: AlbertN<br/>
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Granular VP diffusion makes fights for localized Cities a matter of 'prestige'.<br/>
Not just the BIG names of Cities.
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Not that that ever happened in the actual war.<br/>
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No locations were ever ...

<t> Note that for the Soviets to have built this many guard tank corps ... they have already won.<br/>
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The Nazis need to kick the door in, encircle the Red Army and destroy it.<br/>
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Then they need to do this a second, and maybe a third time, as their estimates of the Red Army were ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: carlkay58<br/>
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IanW - actually my panzers are roughly -5 MPs each over my normal non-motorized games. I took out roughly 4500 trucks out of the pool to motorized that infantry corps. That is roughly how many more unit trucks I had to use for supply on ...

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If you're looking to abuse the game system, the same "Axis naval mines dropped by air equal 1980s era anti shipping missiles" code is in WITE2 and is in WITW.<br/>
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Basically, a small amount of ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: GibsonPete<br/>
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would not hand out silver bullets that would unbalance the game. I look forward to what you discover in future turns.
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"Their mobility had allowed me to keep a normal Panzer Corps in the front line instead ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: GibsonPete<br/>
The player is using around 5400 + trucks to motorize those Divisions. A big trade off. The results will be interesting.
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No. It's not a big tradeoff.<br/>
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What are they giving up ? The panzers are still at ...

Oops, I was thinking of the on-map mech units

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T02 Motorized Corps:<br/>
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The XII Corps is holding the southern flank of PG 2. Their mobility had allowed me to keep a normal Panzer Corps in the front line instead of protecting flanks where infantry are not fast enough to reach ...

<t> In the First World War, the German army's theory of defense was based around a weakly-held first line that fundamentally slows and disorganises the attacker, and then counter-attack forces that hit the disorganised enemy forces before they can entrench in the ground gained.<br/>
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If they ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: carlkay58<br/>
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T02 Trucks:<br/>
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A lot of unit trucks were used for supply which lowered my MPs in the panzer groups.<br/>
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<t> My advice would be to get an old save from one of the middle turns, and look at where your units are being resupplied from, and whether they are getting replacements and whatnot.<br/>
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Have a look at the rail lines supporting those depots.<br/>
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Then load up the next save, and ...

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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: GeneralDad<br/>
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I don't think game play alone will give a historical result at sea in Normandy.<br/>
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It won't.<br/>
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The core of the problem is that the game designers buffed the ...

<t> There's also another decision - where are you okay with the Soviets breaking through and leaving a large salient that you can cut off once the weather gets good and the German Army can operate again.<br/>
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You may be better off leaving a sector weak that you have good supply lines to in ...