Northern Map Edge

The development team behind the award-winning games Decisive Campaigns: From Warsaw To Paris and Advanced Tactics is back with a new and improved game engine that focuses on the decisive year and theater of World War II! Decisive Campaigns: Case Blue simulates the German drive to Stalingrad and into the Caucasus of the summer of 1942, as well as its May preludes (2nd Kharkov offensive, Operation Trappenjagd) and also the Soviet winter counter-offensive (Operation Uranus) that ended with the encirclement of 6th Army in Stalingrad and the destruction of the axis minor armies. With many improvements including the PBEM++ system, this is a release to watch for wargamers!

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BossGnome
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Northern Map Edge

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I love this game, but the way the northern map edge is handled really bothers me. Because of what was going on to the immediate north of the game map during this period, shouldn't the entire northern portion of the map act as a supply source for the soviets? Moreover, if we assume that the german and soviet lines essentially do not budge from their starting positions on Trappenjagd or Case Blue, then wouldn't it be fair to allow for either german or soviet off map troop redeployment if troops find themselves trapped against the northern map edge?

I don't know to what extent the way the map edges work can be modified, but this is one of the major sticking points for me in what I otherwise think is a great game.
"Hard pressed on my right; my left is in retreat. My center is yielding. Impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent. I am attacking."
-Gen. Joffre, before the battle of the Marne
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RE: Northern Map Edge

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Well I 'justify' it by saying the AG Centre moves forward too... Got to find a reason to live with Maginot Line type of map edge.
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RE: Northern Map Edge

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I think if the axis push farther then historical then release a whole Russian front with three armies attached or if that is to extreme them maybe an army at full strength
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