ORIGINAL: chaos45
shame as i was wanting to see how he did as we were close to the same turn count before he stopped sending turns.
The make up of the 2 armys are very different.
He has ant army with very deep fort belts, allot of reserve reactions but far lower CV then you do per hex. Very easy for me to get pockets every turn, he has far more AP's and manpower then you.
This set-up is old school what most people use. I faced it allot in the past, you just pacman (many small pockets)
every turn and after a while you grind down his AP's, generally Russian players start spring with 450 banked and allot of arm pts.
In the past in many cases I been able to defeat this strategy by late summer and then VP out.
You have very high CV but paper then lines,no AP's, no arm pts banked ect you built completely different units.
A few pockets of any size and your done. The first pocket I formed but you broke out of was game set match. I had not done any HQBUs and did not expect to so easy punch through lines, you had 2 weak hexes 1 strong once strong on dropped it was over.
If I get a few pockets you cant recover or have little chance of it as your industry is tied up until end of year because of what you built.
I have fased this before and been able by late summer to get the pockets and things go down hill very fast after that. One or two pockets and your lines become very paper then.
Best way is to do both, but generally high CV stacks with depth only happens vs a poor to average German player. There is no way for German to crack lines vs that
