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ORIGINAL: timmyab
Some apparently strong positions just evaporate at the slightest hint of battle whilst other seemingly weak units hold against overwhelming odds.I'm starting to think that a carpet defence is the best way to defend because it's guaranteed to sap MPs and what you need more than anything when defending a position is certainty.If the CVs on counters aren't reliable I'd much rather they weren't there at all.Same goes for forts.As a defender, you need to have at least a rough idea of how strong a position is otherwise the carpet is the only obvious (and boring) choice.

ORIGINAL: Bletchley_Geek
CV numbers are an indication of units combat power, which is in turn, a function of unit ground elements accuracy, damage, rof, experience and fatigue. Besides that, combat power is influenced by terrain, weather and leader checks.

Basing all of your decisions on CV alone is not a sound idea. High CV correlates with high combat power, but not always and can often be very misleading.

ORIGINAL: Capt Cliff

Perhaps the concept of tactical expertise is missing from the games algorithm. I don't mean experience in battle or being battle hardened. The German was the inventor's of the Blitzkrieg and therefore had a tactical edge over the Russians in mechanized warfare. They held this edge until 43' then Russian superior numbers of troops came into affect helping the Russians. A similar analogy can be seen with Napoleon. Boney's use of divisions and Corps and the French Army's tactical expertise made them victorious in 1805. But when the Allies, meaning the Brit allies, learned to dance with the French and model their armies after the French they did better. They also avoided battle with the Master, which helped.

So I'd say in 41' the German mechanized tactical expertise was like a 4:1 advantage (or 5:1), in 42' it was down to 3:1 (the Russians were learning but could only win in a battle of attrition), but by 43' it was down to 1:1 (1.5:1) due to German loses of experience troops and the Russians finally getting the hang of it.

IMHO

ORIGINAL: neuromancer

Although as has been said, it may be complete fantasy to say that the Axis has anything but the slimmest chance of winning the war, so a game victory doesn't necessarily have to mean they will win the war.  That probably means doing significantly better than the historical performance.

ORIGINAL: sillyflower

ORIGINAL: neuromancer

Although as has been said, it may be complete fantasy to say that the Axis has anything but the slimmest chance of winning the war, so a game victory doesn't necessarily have to mean they will win the war.  That probably means doing significantly better than the historical performance.

That's why I always play with house rule 'victory' means doing better than historically so there's a point to Germans hanging on.

ORIGINAL: tigercub

Helpless ill think you will find it is true Not because the germans were better at his stage they were mostly Karputt,but because the Russians were doing crazy attacks and pushing too hard to finnish the war and get to berlin before the US/UK .under Stalins orders!

Tiger

ORIGINAL: randallw

I like how someone is using the term 'Tank Corpses'. [:D]