<t> Your approach is excellent in game terms, and probably accurate historically -- after all, that is the role of recon units. But using this tactic you may win many battles but lose the game. The critical factor in winning is occupying the high value objectives like Orsha, Mogilev, Velizh early in ...

<t> I finished my last game with a "victory" of 121 points. Had destroyed 232 soviet units and captured all the objectives on the map except Demidov and the one in the top right corner (I was 5 hexes away from that). Did better than the historical Germans and got only a "draw". What an incentive to ...

<t> I agree the Russians seem to redeploy rapidly, but they are still pretty stupid. There is a lot of shuffling here and there, but often if you leave a great gap in your lines, they do not exploit it. The armies tend to stay in the general area where they are assigned. Pretty inflexible. The AI ...

<t> The strategy does not seem to be working. Captured Vyazma and Roslavl by turn 15 but my spearheads are isolated and vulnerable; Mogilev has not fallen. Orsha fell very late although Smolensk went down by turn 7. All of the victory points seem to want the German player to capture Orsha and ...

<t> Regarding Accross the Dnepr, it appears to be a close remake of the old Panzer Group Guderian SPI magazine game, always a favorite. This game has the same flavor -- low number of German units wading into a sea of Soviet units that range from excellent to poor quality, usually unknown. I played ...

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