Joel,
I have played a 1.04 game through March of 1942 now. Albeit on easy (made me think less). A couple of observations:
1. Partisans pop up everywhere now. I garrisoned every city to at least 100%. Throughout the winter I even garrisoned several of the towns on the main supply lines (populations 1 through 4)...but I still had several partisan units that "broke" the supply line. Some partisans affected 5 or more hexes all by themselves.
2. Axis casualties are way down. I did have almost all of my units in Level 3 forts, towns, or cities. Certainly all armor was. I would say down about 70% in December and 50 - 60 % or more.
3. Axis air power losses are down also. Say about 15%. This could be attributable to the Air Forces only supporting their own Army Group.
4. Interesting enough....in February, when snow reappeared in Western Europe and the Crimea....all of my forces (in the Crimea) went back to their full strength (ie, the blizzard affect went away). However, Blizzard still shows up in the 2nd week of December in the Crimea, though the rules say that should be snow. So, it looks like part of this is fixed.
Here is a screenshot from 1-15-1942. 4 partisan units. One damaged 4 rails. Even though the partisan is less than three hexes from the front lines and 4 hexes from Orel, which is fully garrisoned. There are also 4 other partisan units. Again, on easy. I spend 10 minutes hunting down and killing partisans each turn.
Thanks Joel.
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