General "unrealistic" stuff
Posted: Sat Aug 12, 2006 1:53 pm
Not really bug reports, but things that are unrealistic in the game:
* Fleets should not be able to sail in and out of Leningrad during winter.
Nor should they really be able to use the north part of the baltic sea,
really. Unless they have wheels.
* WA should not be able to ship supply to SU in winter via Archangel.
Murmansk is OK because of the gulf stream, it never freezes over but
Archangel is on the opposite side of the Kola peninsula and doesn't
get the gulf stream.
* Not sure what this whole invading Gibraltar via spain thing is. The
spaniards have been trying it since 1805. It can't be done, the stretch
of land is too small, precipitous, and too heavily fortified. Treat
Gibraltar like an island, really.
* There are no reasonable landmarks on the southern coast of Spain on
which to mount artillery platforms. Not sure why artillery in Spain
gets to op fire at sea traffic moving from the atlantic to the western
mediterranean, that's what Gibraltar is for.
* The kerch straits -- not really crossable unless you have support from
the Black Sea fleet. The Germans never managed it in several years of
trying. So you can't just stick a big army in Sevastopol and march it
to the Caucasus, again a matter of a small stretch of (swampy, treacherous)
land.
* The bit about spain being a frozen ally of Germany (covered in Francos
alliance) and the bit about how scotland can be invaded on the first turn
before the allies get to move have been covered elsewhere.
Del
* Fleets should not be able to sail in and out of Leningrad during winter.
Nor should they really be able to use the north part of the baltic sea,
really. Unless they have wheels.

* WA should not be able to ship supply to SU in winter via Archangel.
Murmansk is OK because of the gulf stream, it never freezes over but
Archangel is on the opposite side of the Kola peninsula and doesn't
get the gulf stream.
* Not sure what this whole invading Gibraltar via spain thing is. The
spaniards have been trying it since 1805. It can't be done, the stretch
of land is too small, precipitous, and too heavily fortified. Treat
Gibraltar like an island, really.
* There are no reasonable landmarks on the southern coast of Spain on
which to mount artillery platforms. Not sure why artillery in Spain
gets to op fire at sea traffic moving from the atlantic to the western
mediterranean, that's what Gibraltar is for.
* The kerch straits -- not really crossable unless you have support from
the Black Sea fleet. The Germans never managed it in several years of
trying. So you can't just stick a big army in Sevastopol and march it
to the Caucasus, again a matter of a small stretch of (swampy, treacherous)
land.
* The bit about spain being a frozen ally of Germany (covered in Francos
alliance) and the bit about how scotland can be invaded on the first turn
before the allies get to move have been covered elsewhere.
Del