ORIGINAL: hjaco
Regarding the infamous Kesselschlacht of Berlin the Kaiser should have taken reference to 22.1 in the Manual:
On the Western and Italian fronts, if the defender takes 50 % more casualties than the attacker he is forced to retreat.
In one of the 4 battles though losses are depicted as being precisely 50 % so i guess that is a fraction rounded off or the losses must exceed 50 %. In the rest losses are below 50 %.
In the 4 battles of Paris France committed units with high readiness and SP and refitted battered units back to max strength in the hexes next to Paris. On the other hand Germany committed only 2 or 3 corps in the battle. That put together meant that although being the defender the German troops were unable to inflict enough casualties were as the fresh French troops exchanged just enough losses to stay in the fight.
The only remaining question is why there still was a dispute of ownership of Paris after the first battle ? Why does these situations occur sometimes ?
But from a French perspective quite in the spirit of "Il ne passeront pas" i must add or to quote Southpark "La resistance will live forever !"
Did read the rules. Still believe we are dealing with a bug.
The implication here is clearly that if the defender is not forced to retreat the attacker is. The game did not allow me to move additionally corps into the hex nor was I allowed to refit the existing corps engaged in the battle. As a game mechanic it makes absolutely no sense and there are no provisions in the rules for contested control of the hex.
So how come you were allowed to stay in the hex even when your attacks on it failed 4 times in a row? – they rules cited doesn’t speak to that at all.
If there a situations where control of a hex can be contested and this is intentional at the very least it needs to be documented. As it stands the player has a reasonable expectation that control of hexes is determined by who wins or loses the battle.
I believe you would have won handily if Paris had fallen when it was suppose to anyway but then I believe I would have won our previous game as the fall of France is a necessary but by no means sufficient condition for a central powers victory.
