Agreed. Depot placement and RR repair should serve your "grand" strategy. AI assist can't know what you're up to. It's never even approximated what I have ever wanted it to do. I stopped using it many games ago. And i'm pleased with my supply situation, unless I do something stupid.

I'm a relative newbie.
For me, like any reference material, the manual is not "read" per-se, but selectively consulted when I am ready to tackle something new: like getting serious about the air war or actually getting a clue on how logistics impacts combat.

I like this game (and manual) and do not ...

I am seeing rail usage on these 2 yellow hexes. WAD? No? Cosmetic issue?

Sov units are adjacent to the two yellow hexes. I seem to remember seeing that can happen when an enemy unit is next to an otherwise connected and repaired rail hex. But shouldn't Axis rail usage be Zero?

Late thought. Going back to the original point, having the cmdr of Army, or AG directing the course of a battle is called micro-managing. Generally, that's a recipe for failure. A good example of what a corps commander actually did in Barbarossa is Guderian in "Panzer Leader." Basically, driving ...

I have to think it is a both/and.

Alexander of Macedon's ability to read the enemy and dispose his forces to match whatever was facing him makes for impressive reading. For that I'm thinking more of his campaign in India than Persia. It wasn't always a case of just throw the phalanx against them ...

I had similar experiences in the oil patch. College boy needed a real education.

Road to Leningrad
Axis: rationabile/Advanced Beginner
SU: AI/Normal
1.02.21
VP ratio 4110/1658
Reporting on the latest game. I finally was pleased with my performace after over a dozen poor showings. This time, Hell bent for leather to Syasstroy harbor, then hook west to Leningrad and took it on T16 ...