I think it's stated in the manual somewhere that the Panzer Replacement Battalions are an intentional design concession to abstract the round of equipment and replacements for the Panzer Divisions in the first half of 1942 to enable Blau. It was known they were a bit a-historic, since they can be us...

The structural shock between games pre-1943 and post-1943 to me just underlines the narrative necessity of the Battle of Stalingrad if you want historic direction of the front, abstract or not. Stalingrad was a battle that by pure military rationality alone-never would have happened. I still look at...

I once tested(its been a while) with modded planes with extremely different values (height-speeds) to be more likely to see what is happening regarding the altitude at which the battle happens. From memory I have to say that I found that each side stays at their own altitude (as it is written in th...

Fact to me seems to be that the Germans were significantly “aided” by none other than Stalin and the frustrating incompetence of his leadership and micromanagement during the first season of the war backed up by the NKVD’s ruthless scapegoating of battlefield commanders for political reasons, regard...

Indeed I support the view that the retreat loss may be too high (compared to reality). Actually the majority of the loss comes from retreat. If the retreat path is blocked by EZOC then the loss will be even greater, especially for AFVs (it's also related to reliability and morale). My experience fo...

Yes, especially if you are marshalling troops, tanks, and guns in that hex region. Generally, for places where the terrain isn't bad, and the rail links are numerous you won't need to build that many but up near Leningrad it's common to have to build a Depot literally every hex you can if you're ser...

The more remote and distant the location is + nature of the terrain eg: bogs, heavy forest makes it more and more likely you should send only a regiment-or even better a motorized regiment-to convert the hex. Forts can also be used to improve with supply draw, but I admit i'm not too familiar with t...

So reading the forum i've really gotten the feeling that Air Support in WitE2 is performing sub-optimally or less effectively than it was historically. I also agree from my own games that air support seems really good at wasting supply and taking enormous losses for relatively little in return and t...