<t> This is something I have been pondering for many years. IMHO what I think would work would be a free to play game with premium features available for small repeatable fees inicated by the player which are so small that each one is considered 'cheap' while in the long run you cash in on repeated ...

So what are you saying here - the finns never attacked any russian airbases south of some imaginary line ?

I can reason with a ground troop limit, but in the air, things seems a bit more dynamic.

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I just read the winter-clothing was prepared and order given by Hitler to distribute it in november 1941 but that the clothings reach Warsaw and stay their due to logistical problem (quote from Guderian in Panzer Leader). I wonder if this is ...

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The longer barrel of the Panther gun meant the shell reached higher muzzle velocity and obtained higher accuracy. This translates to more penetrating power even though the Panthers gun is of a smaller calibre.<br/>
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Combine higher penetrating ...

How's the nightmare evolving - did Stalingrad fall yet?&nbsp;

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Maybe a big box with a dancing pink elephant asking "Are you really sure?"

And after that a flashing red/yellow flying kangaroo asking "Are you really really really sure?"

<t> Just to state it - in my opinion WITE is the closest yet to my wet dream as described above - and it is quite possible that at end of the WITE series they might decide to make an the whole european/africa/middle east theather game that have the potential of eventually fullfilling that wet dream ...

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The HPS Panzer Campaigns are excellent at what they portray and the OOB's are very detailed and accurate given the information available on a particular campaign.<br/>

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<t> Ridgeway, unfortunately, you have to spend AP to change the old planes to new ones when there is no upgrade path, the computer won't do the switch for you.<br/>
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That or wait until the pool of that particular model is exhausted and you air group drops below 50% due to losses - THEN then ...

<t> I've noticed the older models of soviet fighters, all I-15 and I-16 models, have no upgrade paths in the game.<br/>
Thus precious AP's have to be expended to upgrade them manually as the auto upgrade function won't work.<br/>
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Is this something resembling a bug, or a conscious decision ...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s> <URL url="http://witewiki.com/index.php/Soviet_Aircraft_and_Early_Strategy"><LINK_TEXT text="http://witewiki.com/index.php/Soviet_Ai ... y_Strategy">http://witewiki.com/index.php/Soviet_Aircraft_and_Early_Strategy</LINK_TEXT></URL><br/>
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<QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: PeeDeeAitch<br/>
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Oh, and Color? I wasn't totally faithful to your Rubberband notion. But note this, for what it is worth. The 2nd Army and the 6th Army in the Big Empty Middle followed this the most, and they had a far larger "bounce back" of CV than did ...

<r> It's just your imagination, better stop smoking that stuff [:-]<br/>
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But had it been real this is probably what it would have looked like: [:D]<br/>
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I'd wager that a lot of 'mechanized' carriage was still trucks, no?
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Well, the Sdkfz 251's were halftracks, but there were never enough of them to go around so many panzergrenadiers had to do with trucks ...

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I think the SdKfz-251/1 carried the the MG 34/42 on its heavy mount, either on the front (without shield) or dismounted out of the half-track. That they equipped the support companys along with the mortar carriers. <br/>

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Goering swears that if the defenders are cut off the Luftwaffe can supply them by air.

Don't trust that fat pervert, his mouth is to big [:D]

It would definitively raise the bling factor of your AA units. Performance wise it was about comparable to the 88 mm FLAK though, with the latter much easier to produce, and mostly it seems it was used in static mounts or on railroad cars.

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True Oleg but WITE has one of the toughest "first winter penalties" I have ever experienced during my 20+ odd years of wargaming...
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The thing is, it grows on you .. <br/>
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so when v 1.04 is coming out ...

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I've only nibbled a bit playing the Soviets, but my initial impression is that it is actually a whole lot more difficult than most of the Axis players think.<br/>

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The challenge is different, and you have to ...

<t> Another smart way to implement CPU dictactes would be not to hinge loss or victory on them, but let them give you bonuses or penalties... something that would really want you to follow them, but allowing you to ignore them.<br/>
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F.instance , complying with a certain dicate could give you ...