Amazing game really !

[Franciscus]

Amazing game.

I keep getting back to it, and it continues to amaze me.

Currently playing as Axis, vs Normal and Slow AI. This I think hits the right spot, and giving more time to her really makes for a formidable AI oponent.

I am in middle September and probably have already lost the game although having inflicted almost 2 million casualties and almost 200 russian lost divisions.

Due to a sequence of early game wrong and reckless decisions, my relations with Gercke (trains) and Wagner (trucks) are terrible. Von Bock hates me, von Rundstedt despises me, only von Leeb tolerates me. The man with mustache loves me but apart from Goering and Brauschitsch, all my superiors (Goebbels, Keitel, etc) hate me.

Result: I never have enough PP for vital decisions, have a terrible lack of ammo because I have no trucks (fuel now is not so bad, but just because I had to stop moving my PG most of the time...), replacements and new divisions take ages to arrive if ever, several armies have great AP penalties, I can give no focus to the PG of AGC and AGS. I managed just now to create a small pocket around Smolensk (finally) at terrible cost and captured Odessa easily, but Kiev, Luga, Narva still hold out.

The AI has played incredibly well. She has managed to avoid too huge encirclements or fought hard to relieve them. She has made costly and unpredictable counter attacks. In the south she has managed to build a near perfect line of defense behind river Dnieper (by early abandoning Odessa and retreating most her army from around Lvov) that only now have I managed to break, at Dnepropetrovsk, at huge cost for my panzers...

Each time I end my turn I cringe and fear at what the AI will do to me...[:'(]

Having great fun ! [:D]

I hope some of you guys enjoy the sale and grab this game, it does not get any better than this, IMHO [&o]