May I extend the thanks for this excellent set of reports, with so much useful advice - quite a shame I am playing the German in my game!

Like the others, I struggle to see, on the basis of the last battle outcomes, how you were not heading towards victory.

Not such a terrible malus then!

Clear, even if the situation I have in mind is not one described in the numerous examples. I think it should work with a small malus, nothing too bad, as the two corps would belong to the same army group, albeit one through an army and the other one attached directly.

- allocating the corps to other armies and spread as much as possible, even if this means they need to support much more than their 27 or 36 point quota , with a loss of efficiency.

Be aware, that you shall not have any HQs over their CP capacity when it comes to ASSAULT HQs (maybe someone can ...

Playing the Axis, I need to prepare for the 11th Army to convert into an Army Group. I have enough of these but only barely enough of German army HQs, which means that I will need to reorganise to accommodate for the corps that are no longer supported. Unless other options I didn't think about are ...

Indeed, thanks... GD having sat next to a depot for about 6 or 7 turns, but not in refit mode, would have started at 20% and improved the odds regularly afterwards, so now that it will be in refit and on a depot, the odds will jump further.

Oh yes I know what it looks like in 1943!

Thanks, so indeed put on a depot and let it drain some replacements once it converts.

We are playing the GC, are in July 1942, and I still have the GD as a regiment. It sat idle for quite a while, having been in refit at the end of the winter, and I saw no dates anywhere on when it would convert to a division. Q-Ball kindly indicated that I needed to put it to refit mode (from April ...

Clear, thanks, that was my suspicion but better confirm.

I will try that in a couple of areas then.

Did I see Romanian artillery attached to German corps? Does this improve its performance significantly?

Question on fortifications: they cost 4 APs to build for the Axis and are great to improve positions not adjacent to the Russians.

Once at level 3, do they bring material benefits during a battle or is it better to disband them and avoid dipping into the limited number available throughout the game ...

Thanks, I will certainly pile a few big guns where I want to get through. Not the 600mn ones as I will not be tackling any fortress for a while.

Disappointing for air leaders, an improvement in LW performance would always have been welcome. If I get an opportunity, I will nevertheless do the move ...

Two questions that show my unbounded optimism as we are coming in April 1942 after I made an egregious mistake at the start of the winter and rotated my units too late with the reserve pool.

At some point, I may have well in excess of 30 APs and a bit of margin to carry on with other tasks. I will ...

I will sure meditate your last sentence and try to avoid understanding every aspect!

Interestingly enough I had one last try at squaring things up before considering that we are where we are: looking at the turn's losses for the Romanians showed virtually nothing, whereas the negative replacement ...

Still on my learning curve of how the system works vs expectations.

I have a number of units well behind the front (let's say 4-8 hexes) that are either entrained but in a city with their HQ next to them, or just gaining CPPs with their HQ within 3 hexes. They have little in terms of damaged ...

Same division, same place, same leader (but army HQ nearer): 59 tons





Over 40% less than the previous consumption. So either there is an element of randomness or we miss something.

All right, thanks, what I understand is that there are a number of factors at play which can lead to abnormal results sometimes. I just have to live with these.

Given that this division will not move, I will also take a look next turn to check consistency.

Yes, I compared everything to divisions with the same level of personnel and equipment.

I would have thought that the consumption would be static, with the resupply constrained by the level of nearby stocks, but understand that both aspects will be affected by what's available nearby. Correct ...

Why would a unit recovering (for damaged elements, supply & CP) in Riga, well behind the front, would consume 102 tons of supply when same size divisions in the front line would need 60-75 tons?

There were two administrative failures. Did this play a role? How to avoid these (the unit is ...