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ORIGINAL: Arstavidios

hello,
A few questions:

1 - It seems the soviets can build some units in addition to the reinforcements they get. What kind of things can they build?
2 - Support units do not appear on the map how are they handled? I guess there's some kind of general pool.........
3 - what kind of support units are there, I suppose there are corps assets like artillery units, engineers, antitank units, assault gun units.......?
4 - how do airbases work? are there some airstrip or do you suppose it is preexisting wherever the airbase units moves to? Can you attach additional support units to airbase like AA units?
5 - stacking is three units. Do HQS count? Airbases?
6 - Germany cannot create any additional units. This means everything is recieved through production, including airbases, support units and corps army and army group HQ? No possibility to create an additional army HQ for exemple?
7 - Some units have to be withdrawn for vatious reasons. I suppose it's a specific unit at a specific time. what happens when a unit is supposed to withdraw for refit whereas it is in good shape? are the benefits of the rebuild lost?
8 - the german army used large numbers of soviets for various duties like garrison, construction work, cooks, drivers, anti partisan duties....... In all well over 1000000 men. Is this factored into the game and in the TOE of the units like osttruppen support or infantry squads for exemple? ar they just factored into the general replacement rates?
9 - does the production system adjust to produce what is most needed or is there a fixed production of each item like allied production in witp.  For exemple I may be short of 105 mm guns whereas I may have a surplus of 150mm howitzers, or I may need some infantry squads whereas I have plenty of support squads in the pool, what happens then?

ORIGINAL: karlxii

Hi, another question which I´ve not found here so far (though I apologize if I have missed it)

- Is the enourmous Allied supply to the Soviet modelled in the game ? Or is it just taken into account in the normal production/replacement pool and will the Soviet have American/British vehicles in their pool ?
- Can you capture Murmansk or Archangelsk and deny part of that supply by sea ?

Thanks!

ORIGINAL: Arstavidios

hello,
A few questions:

1 - It seems the soviets can build some units in addition to the reinforcements they get. What kind of things can they build?
2 - Support units do not appear on the map how are they handled? I guess there's some kind of general pool.........
3 - what kind of support units are there, I suppose there are corps assets like artillery units, engineers, antitank units, assault gun units.......?
4 - how do airbases work? are there some airstrip or do you suppose it is preexisting wherever the airbase units moves to? Can you attach additional support units to airbase like AA units?
5 - stacking is three units. Do HQS count? Airbases?
6 - Germany cannot create any additional units. This means everything is recieved through production, including airbases, support units and corps army and army group HQ? No possibility to create an additional army HQ for exemple?
7 - Some units have to be withdrawn for vatious reasons. I suppose it's a specific unit at a specific time. what happens when a unit is supposed to withdraw for refit whereas it is in good shape? are the benefits of the rebuild lost?
8 - the german army used large numbers of soviets for various duties like garrison, construction work, cooks, drivers, anti partisan duties....... In all well over 1000000 men. Is this factored into the game and in the TOE of the units like osttruppen support or infantry squads for exemple? ar they just factored into the general replacement rates?
9 - does the production system adjust to produce what is most needed or is there a fixed production of each item like allied production in witp.  For exemple I may be short of 105 mm guns whereas I may have a surplus of 150mm howitzers, or I may need some infantry squads whereas I have plenty of support squads in the pool, what happens then?

1. Are regions/cities sources of manpower/industrial production?

2. Are strategic resources, like Oil, Tungstene or Manganese, factored in the game?

Looking at the many screenshots, at various zoom levels, in recent days and prior, I'm wondering if the many rail lines i'm seeing are indeed historical and have been researched by the team?
I realize a lot of time has been spent researching the geo topography of the game map and the developpers have local help in eastern europe. Does the same apply for the rail lines?
Are all those twists and turns and routes through the various cities, towns as close to 1941> historical reality as can be surmised based on the available evidence?

Will there be artwork in WitE ?

9. Only AFVs and aircraft have fixed production. All other units are produced "on demand".

ORIGINAL: ComradeP

9. Only AFVs and aircraft have fixed production. All other units are produced "on demand".

That could be problematic. If the equipment is build "on demand", does that mean the Axis player can never have a surplus of equipment? For example: if all units have more or less their organic artillery, do all the artillery factories in Germany simply stop working?

Heavy losses of a specific kind of equipment would be very hard to replace in that case.

The TOAW/WitP system of a fixed number of equipment arriving at a certain date isn't perfect, but it's preferable over an "on demand" system in my opinion, as an "on demand" has a greater potential to cause unrealistic logistical problems.