Matrix Games Forums

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

Maybe they'll find frogmarcs current game file corrupted and he'll have to replay a turn. Whatever it is, you should be able to continue the game from some point.

ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

The last save was indeed corrupted (the file was only 1k) so I reverted the game to the prior player turn. Hopefully this was just a fluke and it won't happen again.

ORIGINAL: Joel Billings

The Slitherine tech people are going to take a look at this now that they are aware of it. I was told there was another game experiencing similar issues so it appears to be a server wide issue. I have a lot of confidence in their technical people to make things better. As for the 1k file upload, I really think this was some kind of fluke event.

ORIGINAL: loki100

you've done an incredible amount of damage. The Soviets at 6m and the Germans alone at 4m, be interesting to see if you can manage the final gains in 1943 or if you have reached the limits of your advance.

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

In case people were wondering, I've seen no evidence that losing Baku and the fuel/oil that goes with it will have any significant impact on the Red Army. The Axis player will take out about 35-40% of that production, but there will still be some excess production capacity on the Soviet side even with the loss.

ORIGINAL: GamesaurusRex

Reading through this AAR is just another confirmation for why the Russian should not fight forward or counterattack in 41 blizzard. Doing so is suicidal because of the multiple "over the top" Russian penalties during 41-42. To whit:

1) Extreme morale differential
2) Unrealistic binary isolation rules
3) Fantasy Lvov pocketing
4) Historically inaccurate and low reinforcement rates
5) Combat resolution routines that result in too few losses to the attacker

Nevertheless, the game is playable and interesting once HRs and intial optional settings are put in place to balance the game. Even then, though, you can forget fighting forward or the blizzard attack as the Russian. The best the Russian can do is try to survive until 43, when the rebuilt Russian Army 2.0 can be assembled to actually play the game.

ORIGINAL: STEF78

ORIGINAL: GamesaurusRex

Reading through this AAR is just another confirmation for why the Russian should not fight forward or counterattack in 41 blizzard. Doing so is suicidal because of the multiple "over the top" Russian penalties during 41-42. To whit:

1) Extreme morale differential
2) Unrealistic binary isolation rules
3) Fantasy Lvov pocketing
4) Historically inaccurate and low reinforcement rates
5) Combat resolution routines that result in too few losses to the attacker

Nevertheless, the game is playable and interesting once HRs and intial optional settings are put in place to balance the game. Even then, though, you can forget fighting forward or the blizzard attack as the Russian. The best the Russian can do is try to survive until 43, when the rebuilt Russian Army 2.0 can be assembled to actually play the game.

Your analysis is only focused on russians problems.

Even if most of your points are correct, german players also have their own difficulties:
- russian airborne and amphibian capacity
- partisan efficiency in the early months of the game if well managed
- impossibility to take Moscow and often Leningrad against good players in 1941
- the fact that the russian commander doesn't make the same errors than Stalin
and I forgot surely others points

ORIGINAL: M60A3TTS

Your inexperienced opponent didn't leave a sufficient garrison at Baku. So go ahead and finish him off there, but I'd suggest you not linger too long.