ORIGINAL: Flaviusx
Pelton, a couple of things I have noticed about your blizzard defense:
1. You do not use terrain. You prefer these geometrically precise lines. I think that's causing you problems. Actually, that's not just with blizzard, it's what you do generally on the defense. (You are also overbuilding forts imo.)
2. You pull out too much mech. TVD is obviously taking advantage of that. He's throwing a mobile army against an essentially leg infantry force. German blizzard play has fallen into a stereotyped pattern where they just want to take a pass on the blizzard, send off all their mobile units for R&R until spring, and skip ahead to March Madness (now March Mildness.) There's ways to punish the German who does that, TVD has figured out one way, I have my own ideas, and they don't involve tank brigade cheese which in my estimation is going to hurt you in the long run when you need to make tank corps. And you'll be doing so with a bunch of guys with 0-30 records or whatever after flailing away with spam soak off attacks. Ouch.
3. I'm going to go out on a limb and say you are probably not making much use of reserve stance. Ironically, this is a problem a lot of Soviet players have as well.
All that said, if TVD is gaming things that severely then perhaps it needs to be looked at. But we need the data.
For the record: I don't think that a blizzard that consistently results in 50 dead Axis divisions is balanced. If this is really going on, it needs to be addressed. But in order to address it we need an actual AAR that details this very premature destruction of AGC.
As I stated this is 2nd time vs TDV so your wrong a allot of points.
1. Terrain means little in this game other then rivers and forts. I have used this tactics vs a dozon good players and it works every time during blizzard and the german army puts a hurt on russian armt during snow.
2. ALL mech and panzer units were put in lines from start or withen 4 turns. As I have fased this more then once. So this just does not apply to this game and tactics at all.
3. As I have played more then one game into 43 have used it allot, but if I put ALL as in every single mech unit on reserve plus some infantry I am lucky to get a single unit to do anything. This as with other parts of the game is still broken badly.
It is usable for the Russian player as he has 500+ units on map and even the very very small % that react is allot during 42+
Vs Kamil, Hoooper and TDV I would be lucky to have 1 unit to react out off 40+ in one turn.
It just not working and never has. I know 8421 has massive amounts of units in reserve and hes lucky to get 2 or 3 battles a turn to work.
As German player I 100% ignore reserve option when
I do my attacks as the russian unit hardly ever react and when they do 9 times out of 10 it has no effect on the out come of battle.
For the record: I don't think that a blizzard that consistently results in 50 dead Axis divisions is balanced. If this is really going on, it needs to be addressed. But in order to address it we need an actual AAR that details this very premature destruction of AGC.
As it is blizzard is still historically over rated, but un fixable because of supply system.
Repeating results is as easy as playing Jamiam or someone esle. Insstead of play testing summer of 41 endlessly play a few games as russian during blizzard vs someone.
2by3 can set up the game at any turn with whatever forses you wish so play testing the blizzard a few times would not take very long to test out more then a few tactics.
