Looking forward to see if you can mop up Leningrad,get through Winter, and achieve anything decisive in 1942.

Sorry, I meant no Axis Airfield bombing on T1. I got Kirov and still lost but it was a very unusal game and I think we switched to playing outrageously just for fun.

I did this against M60 many years ago. Full disclosure M60 won the GC in 1945 by capturing my entire SS Panzer Armee and sending them to Siberia[;)]

In WITE1 I stopped doing Axis air missions on T1 very early on. Posted several times. Just some recce. I think it also screws up the Soviet supply system as the Red Air Force demands supply.

Thx for the posts. To be clear, is your preferred strategy NOT to activate/release the Southern Front on T1 ? Is that what you mean my "locking down" ? Or do you mean something different ?

Does this drive historical outcomes at the expense of sophisticated game play? A map showing just how much or how little a Soviet player who kept Leningrad and Moscow would need to lose in the south ( to trigger SD) would be helpful.

<t> I am a horrible evil person when playing the Axis. I don't crush pockets until everyone is starved to death as there is no mechanism in the game for all that historically captured infrastructure and people to actually 'make things' for me. They will all regrow to become enemies or partisans or s...

<t> Interesting - has the Air Logistics changed that much? I stopped all T1 air base bombing as Axis long ago - an exploit to be sure - as all the surviving junk destroyed the Soviet logistics and pilots while mooning my air experience in T2 plus. My ground campaign was average but I had players qui...

With at least two weeks supply of Privitin this seems historical.

<t> Good point. At worst this an improvement on the " Turn One - the first steps in my strategy for a marginal victory in 1946". At best it is a plan to seize territory that might be dependable if one is not going for sudden death. <br/> In one WITE 1 game player v player I took Kirov and stuff and ...

<t> I Read the rules/AAR etc. but is a an short encapsulation ( by testers ) available of what the First Winter rules mean in terms of effects on Play ? In WITE1 this whipsawed from devastating to not so bad then back and forth. I'm looking for a " You can expect to be forced back 6 hexes on a 15 he...

Now I know where the band "REO Speedwagon" got its name. Seriously I never knew.

<t> I had never heard of the SEC Regt paradrop tactic and I thought I had seen everything! I gave up ever attempting paradrops as Ger or Rus almost immediately and never looked back. <br/> <br/> My evil game the WITE1 techniques were limited to NOT attacking the Red AF on T1 and starving western Rus...

Is there a quick description or do I need to wait until that chapter of the manual is released for preview?
Thx

<t> That is a neat idea. Are you able to research the perhaps now declassified or public deliberations of the Finnish government ? Perhaps this event could be then be modeled and slightly randomized so as not to be predictable. <br/> On a related note a Finnish General history buff told me a major d...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain<br/> <br/> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: sillyflower<br/> <br/> Good to see you playing as Russians, Mr P [;)] <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> Yup, GeneralfeldmarschallWalterModel is Mr P too. The AAR reads verbatim like Mr P's. To be honest Mr P sh...

<r> Yes, it is more of a play balance tool, and essentially all the previous posts are correct. Perhaps in future there can be increased degradation of Axis capacity of truck, supply, medical recovery, a defensive bonus with with high casualty penalties but ability to hold the line but look like cra...

<r> <QUOTE><s>[quote]</s>ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS<br/> <br/> Not wise to merge 3 divisions. Better to do it with 2 divisions and a brigade. That way you effectively turn a brigade into a division for free. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE> <br/> It has been awhile, but I recall that if you manage the "merge brigade...

You still airfield bomb on T1? Why do all that housecleaning for the Soviets ? [:)]

<t> I have been playing a few games to 1945 with the Soviets at 125 in all stats. In my latest one as soon as I my FBD to Cherkassy, partisans cut the rail line every turn from 11-17 inclusive. The damage was extensive such that auto repair bots could not repair it. I always fully garrison immediate...