taking Moscow

[AC]

Hi all!

When playing against the computer, the manual states that if one is able to capture Moscow and Leningrad before winter, there should only be a weak - if any - Soviet winter offensive. In fact, this is what I experienced. I wonder if someone knows more in technical detail what happens to the Soviets and why they don't attack so much with Moscow and Leningrad fallen.

Thanx

AC

[Ed Cogburn]

Originally posted by AC:
I wonder if someone knows more in technical detail what happens to the Soviets and why they don't attack so much with Moscow and Leningrad fallen.

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Add up all the population, resources, and factories in those 2 cities. Losing all that *hurts* in '41.

[IKerensky]

Hum, expect a figthing moral boost for half the population and a moral losse for the other one evening thing s up. <img src="smile.gif" border="0">
More important :
- Losing Moscou and Leningrad = losing major industrial city andf a lot of manpower too = less gear for counterattack.
- If you take them then all the troups that were keep in reserve for winter counteroffensife have already been send in the fight to defend those city : i.e. no more reserve.
- Losing Moscou = soviet centralised governement have to move elsewhere = lots of administrative and military problem...

[Kuniworth]

Well the most simple reason is that the russians always defend these cities most vigoriously. Takin them means you have most likely destroyed the bulk of the red army.