Quick Questions Thread

[thek3mu]

good to know ...

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found here: https://forums.matrixgames.com/viewtopi ... 8#p3603378 (yes, it's from WitW but should hold true ...)

[Wiedrock]

RECON Air Directives Settings, when switching Strategic to YES i see some zeros (0) in parenthesis - who knows what these mean?

in this example the target hex is Minsk and the larger area to recon is 5(6) - when i point the recon area somewhere else i get different numbers ...

are these numbers related to already available recon data on industry in my target area? and why the parenthesis?
searching for answers ... (should i care? )

thanks in advance!


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edit: i guess, i will find my answers inside the WitW manual ... something to do for tomorrow.

It's the damaged factories out of the number before paranthesis.

[Wiedrock]

Ahh you've found already. Got it.

Two things....
1. Remember that in WitW you've got points for Strat Bombing afaik (which you won't get in WitE2).

2. Be aware that Strat Recon is suposed to give you better intel on the damage.
But what I can say is that this is not always the case (I did not do statistics).
Like, you can actually have 17% → 25(4) damage which you can see with FoW OFF.
When FoW ON this may be shown as 20% damage.
Then you run a week of Strat Recon on the city and you end with 9% damage shown (while it is still 17%). So be aware that whatever you do does not make any sense anyways since the more intel you get the worse the information may become.

[thek3mu]

RECON Air Directives Settings, when switching Strategic to YES i see some zeros (0) in parenthesis - who knows what these mean?

in this example the target hex is Minsk and the larger area to recon is 5(6) - when i point the recon area somewhere else i get different numbers ...

are these numbers related to already available recon data on industry in my target area? and why the parenthesis?
searching for answers ... (should i care? )

thanks in advance!


parenthesis.png

edit: i guess, i will find my answers inside the WitW manual ... something to do for tomorrow.

It's the damaged factories out of the number before paranthesis.

thank you!

[thek3mu]

Ahh you've found already. Got it.

Two things....
1. Remember that in WitW you've got points for Strat Bombing afaik (which you won't get in WitE2).

2. Be aware that Strat Recon is suposed to give you better intel on the damage.
But what I can say is that this is not always the case (I did not do statistics).
Like, you can actually have 17% → 25(4) damage which you can see with FoW OFF.
When FoW ON this may be shown as 20% damage.
Then you run a week of Strat Recon on the city and you end with 9% damage shown (while it is still 17%). So be aware that whatever you do does not make any sense anyways since the more intel you get the worse the information may become.

yes, thanks a lot! hey, i'm into the old USAF Hist Studies books on the Luftwaffe and right now i'm reading the 'German Air Force Operations in support of the army' ... lots to LARP, wouldn't you agree?!

[Wiedrock]

Ahh you've found already. Got it.

Two things....
1. Remember that in WitW you've got points for Strat Bombing afaik (which you won't get in WitE2).

2. Be aware that Strat Recon is suposed to give you better intel on the damage.
But what I can say is that this is not always the case (I did not do statistics).
Like, you can actually have 17% → 25(4) damage which you can see with FoW OFF.
When FoW ON this may be shown as 20% damage.
Then you run a week of Strat Recon on the city and you end with 9% damage shown (while it is still 17%). So be aware that whatever you do does not make any sense anyways since the more intel you get the worse the information may become.

yes, thanks a lot! hey, i'm into the old USAF Hist Studies books on the Luftwaffe and right now i'm reading the 'German Air Force Operations in support of the army' ... lots to LARP, wouldn't you agree?!

I have a version of this from 1999 or so. But not read.

On the Air War in the East I can suggest 'War Over the Steppes' by Hooton.

[Walkyre]

Is there any way to prevent friendly HQs from being displaced when isolated enemy divisions are destroyed inside a pocket?

The enemy divisions are correctly destroyed and removed from the map. However, during the process, they appear to "fly" out of the pocket, and if their displacement path crosses a friendly HQ outside the pocket, that HQ gets displaced as well.

The problem is not that the isolated divisions survive or escape the pocket, but that their removal from the map can trigger the displacement of friendly HQs.
This just happened to one of my FBD units operating near a pocket. When an isolated Soviet division was destroyed, its removal from the map displaced my FBD, preventing it from carrying out any railway repairs for an entire turn.

This is more than just an annoyance, as it can seriously disrupt railway repair schedules and logistics during the 1941 offensive.

Is this intended behavior, a known bug, or is there any way to prevent it?

[thek3mu]

[...]

On the Air War in the East I can suggest 'War Over the Steppes' by Hooton.

found this review on Good Reads:

[...] Never encountered any historian complicating a text as Hooton done, the established abbreviations has he dismissed and instead introduced firstly abbreviations emanated from complicated Russian terms, eg. VVS (Voyenno Vozdushnye Sily) for Red Army Air Force and secondly applied a method with scaling down the Air Force in the various different naming of the functions within the VVS (Red Army Airforce) and used the abbreviations established from other long and complicated Russian definitions.
I must repeatedly check the glossary. [...]

LOL, that's a book for me then, thanks for the tip. since finishing Stalin's War (Sean McMeekin) i'm eager to play the soviet side as well - always wondered how i'll get into a russian mood and hey, Gary is using the same abbreviations everywhere in his magnum opus ... that's 288 Pages? nice, thank you!