Case Brown: The tannenbaum Blitz

[stonestriker]

I am currently in a game as the Germans versus AI French/Swiss, and have a few questions/suggestions:

1) I was not untill I entered Adincourt, that I spotted the first French forces. Were they not supposed to move into Swiss territory to help them?

2) I chose to play with French armor, and as soon as I spotted them, I attacked with my Stukas. As they were too far north, they had no Swiss fighters covering them, and they were massacred. It seems that my bombers will be able to attack the French without fear of interception. Perhaps the French should have a few fighters, or do they have adequate AA, that I haven´t spotted yet?

3) The Germans have no rail capacity, which I could really use. But this might be intentional?

5) The description of the Victory conditions does not tell me when the game ends. I can only see it in the Victory Report in the log or when the turn starts. Slight oversight

4) I am unsure what the intention behind the VP distribution is. It seems that you can either go for A) all the French VPs and Bern VP , or B) all of Switzerland and most of the French VPs. Option A seems more achieveable (still early in the scenario)and historically plausible. Especially if the AI Swiss will withdraw to their mountain strongholds, you only need to fight the French and those Swiss units defending Basel and Bern.
Is option A your intended plan and the rest of the Swiss VPs are just for flavour, or am I missing something?

[ernieschwitz]

I am currently in a game as the Germans versus AI French/Swiss, and have a few questions/suggestions:

1) I was not untill I entered Adincourt, that I spotted the first French forces. Were they not supposed to move into Swiss territory to help them?

2) I chose to play with French armor, and as soon as I spotted them, I attacked with my Stukas. As they were too far north, they had no Swiss fighters covering them, and they were massacred. It seems that my bombers will be able to attack the French without fear of interception. Perhaps the French should have a few fighters, or do they have adequate AA, that I haven´t spotted yet?

3) The Germans have no rail capacity, which I could really use. But this might be intentional?

5) The description of the Victory conditions does not tell me when the game ends. I can only see it in the Victory Report in the log or when the turn starts. Slight oversight

4) I am unsure what the intention behind the VP distribution is. It seems that you can either go for A) all the French VPs and Bern VP , or B) all of Switzerland and most of the French VPs. Option A seems more achieveable (still early in the scenario)and historically plausible. Especially if the AI Swiss will withdraw to their mountain strongholds, you only need to fight the French and those Swiss units defending Basel and Bern.
Is option A your intended plan and the rest of the Swiss VPs are just for flavour, or am I missing something?

First of all thanks for playing my scenario

1). Yeah, they were supposed to enter Swiss territory, but i suppose that they for some reason choose to defend only their own VPs. I don´t know... I might have to force the AI into some action.

2). The French have some fighters, albeit not many, and the Swiss have some too. I have put on the allies help each others air defence rulevar, so they should intercept German attempts at attacking stuff through the air. Maybe you just ground their airforces to dust? As for adding AA: that would be unhistorical...

3). Yes, the germans have no rail. This is because i saw it fitting that An Army group did not have trains, and that only OKH did. And OKH is far too busy with the fighting in Belgium, Holland and at the Maginot to allow trains... But if this should become a common request (you are the 2nd person mentioning it) I might give some sort of rail transport. Either via card, or via a few trains at Army Group D.

4). The idea behind VP distribution is that you have to take Bern, and alot of the French VPs, at least. Getting to France, and pacifying the Swiss, are the main goals of the game. It used to be that the VPs would require you to take both Besancon and all the Swiss VPs, except the fortresses. But I changed it so that players playing the French / Swiss would not just hoard units in Bern and Besancon, making them miniature Stalingrads.

If you have any suggestions for improvements I am very open to ideas

[stonestriker]

I will keep my eyes open for anything else

1) As you write in the scenarios brief, after the French border, the Germans have excellent open tank country. If the AI could be coerced to perhaps move to Delemont, they should an easier time defending against the German Panzer divisions. In regards to defending their own VPs, I took Adincourt without opposition, so there aren´t doing to great a job

2) I was not aware that the Allies could co-intercept my bombers. I had 5 or 6 squadrons of 3 fighters intercept my air forces the first few turns, and they might very well have been a mix French/Swiss fighters. Of course no AA should be added if it is not historical. I was just suggesting that I might think the French defenceless against my air force, because I had yet to run into the French AA.

3) A card for it could be nice. I love having to make a choice on what to spend my PPs on. But you reasoning behind the lack of trains is pretty sound.

4) Glad to hear that I reached the same conclusion as you intended

[stonestriker]

I just finished the scenario, and I must say, it is really great work. I think this scenario could easily be mistaken for a "official" scenario from Vic.

I can´t quite remember how victory is supposed to trigger, but on the 25th the Victory Report reported that I had all the necessary VPs, however the victory message did not trigger until the 26th. Is this working as intended (the other scenarios might work the same way, if so, please ignore this)?

[ernieschwitz]

I think it is intended, but i am not sure... Basically i modded the victory function from the Poland scenario... and thanks for the high praise