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For me roads are not an issue..Don't matter as I'm sure the movement factors let you gallop thru Russia untill you hit the zoc's..Then it's hex by hex anyway.
Makes me laugh to see people complaining about the biggest land battle in history having to many counters...While a couple of warm up sens are probly needed..What East front warrior can't wait to get the campaign in his hands?
In the above example...How would the AI handle it? Would it counter attack to break out? Would it try to air supply it's units..Is it as good as you say?
Will the AI Germans push you back to Moscow and hold up for the whole campaign? Surround units and eliminate the pockets?
Would love to play as the Russians vs the AI in an East front game that didn't fall apart.
How many mailings per turn/side in a pbem turn?

In the above example are the Russian units so weak because of their supply state? I know a Germ div was the equal to a Ruski Corps..But it still seems the Russians are a little weak... Man can hardly wait to get my hands on this.

Also... am I reading it right that you will look at certain User made sens and give them official blessing? Perhaps include them in a patch that will include them in the game?
I play another system that ignors user sens that are as good as the ones they put out. It can only help in advertisement of your product.

I have not spent any time with the AI yet and it's still being improved so I don't know how the AI handles pockets, either making them or breaking them.  PBEM is not really implemented yet. We only need to send one file manually each turn now so I'm guessing that is how it will be with PBEM but don't hold me to that.  There has been some informal discussion about a future scenario pack but no decision has been made.

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In the above example are the Russian units so weak because of their supply state? I know a Germ div was the equal to a Ruski Corps..But it still seems the Russians are a little weak... Man can hardly wait to get my hands on this.

You are seeing the game from the Russian side in the screen shot, so the values you see for the Russian are the ATTACK strengths. If you were to see the game from the German side you would see considerably higher defense strengths for the Russian units. Russian rifle divisions are individually poor on offense because they don't contain much organic artillery but are much better on defense due to having plenty of infantry and support weapons (mortars, machineguns, ATRs).

The more information I see about this game the more I want it. IE

"You are seeing the game from the Russian side in the screen shot, so the values you see for the Russian are the ATTACK strengths. If you were to see the game from the German side you would see considerably higher defense strengths for the Russian units. "

This little detail is incredible