Do forts build too fast (particularly for Soviets)?

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Altaris
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RE: Do forts build too fast (particularly for Soviets)?

Post by Altaris »

Interesting changes, particularly about supply affecting the build rate of forts. That will definitely help keep the forts from going up quite so fast in those first few turns. Will be interesting to see what the testers think of it.
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RE: Do forts build too fast (particularly for Soviets)?

Post by Zort »

My worry is the 3 to 5 hex deep fort lines.  Started the GC42 scenario and having only one line of forts is bad.  In my GC41 game my sov opponent had 4 hexes deep of forts of all levels.  I know that this is a game mechanic but at this scale, I believe an unrealistic fort depth.  Glad there are some changes but don't see much of a change to a defense in depth.  The sov figures what his main line will be in Dec 41, pushes the germans back during the blizzard, starts building until Jun.  He will have 3-4 hexes deep of lvl 2-3 forts easy I think.  So seeing a German successful summer offense will be slim. Let's hope the changes will be effective, otherwise WW1 starts in Jun 42....
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