A smaller WW2 campaign

[Ulrik]

Hi there, I have from time to time started a WW2 campaign. The dream is to play the russians as they should be played... t-34s blitzing over the landskape, dodging nasty panthers. Full out infantry assaults supported by "stalin organs" ... that'd be soo cool ... however.... I tend to have quite a high point army... so the AI does too... and what does he buy? .... bloody infantry ... and more bloody infantry... 3-4-5000 points of infantry! AAAAAArg.... what can be done about this? Is it possible to have a WW2 campaign with limited points to buy for? can the AI be told to use; X% on tanks Y%infantry and Z% on artilery? that would be great!

Well enough badly spelled complaints can anyone help?

[MindSpy]

It is better then to make your own campaign.

Pick a battle. Read about the units and landscape. Read about what the soldiers wrote home and more importantly how many survived and commented on the battle.

Then setup your force and the AI's force. Adjust the order of the battles. It is not always necessary to start off a campaign from the beginning. In this way you could buy the expensive but limited tanks in the beginning building great experience and kill ratios then begin to select earlier versions of tanks and thus arrive at the beginning with a force that is both battle tested and inexperienced. By allowing your campaing to loop you would then progressively attempt to achieve your original build of Heavy Armour or Elite troops.

Ideally, you should edit your forces for good experience and abominable performance. Tanks in good order and those that need repair [reduced movement points-likewise for tanks supporting infantry]. Then allow for build points or only if you reach a level .. etc..

With experimentation comes play.


MindSpy

[pappasmurf]

Go into prefrences and set the AI battlpoints lower while boosting your own. You may have simiiar sized core forces but the extra points will give you expendables.

[Major Destruction]

Play the Russian Steel campaign?

[Poopyhead]

Most of the armies in WW2 were largely composed of infantry, so I would expect to see more rather than less infantry. My own experience in the long campaign starting against the Poles, my German battalion pushed through a narrow ten hex wide front, destroyed the Polish reserve, artillery and A0 and took all the Victory Hexes from the rear. After the battle, I was surprised to see a large Polish infantry force positioned in front of the VH's facing the German side of the map, waiting to repel some frontal attack. It was actually a larger infantry force than my entire combined arms group! "Blitzing" doesn't happen because you have a bigger force, it is created when you use a more mobile combined arms force to out-maneuver a larger, slower (infantry and horse drawn artillery) force. If you just want to do an overwhelming frontal assault, even the AI will use lots of entrenched infantry to frustrate you.

[Ulrik]

Thanks all. The answer is of course: buy the megacampaigns... that might be my christmaspresent from... everyone... I simply must...

I did do a few attemts to "cheat" with points and so on... I might give it a try to say that the game is a two human game, buy the stuff for the computer, then tick it back to human-computer... might be worth it.

Finally a booktip:

Alamein by Stephen Bungay. Simply amazingly well written and well proportioned... A great book for christmas! tell your family and friends

I also read: The Battle for Guadalcanal by Samuel B., II Griffith. A-ok book. Not as well written as the above, but then again Mr. Griffith is (was?) not proffesional writer. It sertainly made me enjoy Wild Bills "Save Henderson!" scenario!

So I guess I'll just enjoy all the well made scenarios untill I can afford the Megacampaigns