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Will surrounded units surrender after a time or do they have to be destroyed by force?

ORIGINAL: Capt Cliff

Will surrounded units surrender after a time or do they have to be destroyed by force?

They surrender if attacked under the right conditions. So you don't have to grind them to the last man.

With some conditions (isolated, low morale) unit can surrender during the supply phase and without explicit attack.

just thought of something:

if an enemies unit surrenders, do i get the enemies units equipment into my equipment pool?

Not only equipment, but maybe more importantly, fuel and other logistical supplies? What was on Elmo's screen...oh yeah...supply/need...fuel/need...ammo/need.

Would be great if the surrendering unit gave up 1/4 to 1/2 of its supplies! Nothing like scavenging for parts!

been there, done that!

ORIGINAL: knilli

just thought of something:

if an enemies unit surrenders, do i get the enemies units equipment into my equipment pool?

You can capture fuel/supplies and some equipment does get captured and placed into your own pool and subsequently used.

ORIGINAL: Sabre21

You can capture fuel/supplies and some equipment does get captured and placed into your own pool and subsequently used.

Now that's cool. The dam German's were such pack-rats (thrifty if you like), remember they invented sausages, they'd find uses for even empty tooth paste tubes. A lot of German AT-guns in the 1942 time frame were capture Soviet 76.2 mm guns.

@sabre: thx for the answer. like it!

Excellent. Can I carry a bunch of rubber hoses to help siphon fuel faster (Battle of the Bulge - jk)[;)]

You can capture fuel/supplies and some equipment does get captured and placed into your own pool and subsequently used.

That's great to know, because as we all know the Germans made great use of captured equipment.

Here is the equipment that I've captured in my 1942 PBEM game. we are about 30 turns into the game. The "Captured" column shows how many I've captured. The "Unit" column shows how many units are outfitted with them and the "Pool" column show how many I have in the stockpile. I've noticed that you capture about 2% of a units equipment that surrenders.

Is the "vehicle repair" column an abstraction of captured trucks and other vehicles?

Have you not captured any tanks ?

ORIGINAL: ComradeP

Is the "vehicle repair" column an abstraction of captured trucks and other vehicles?

Yes.

ORIGINAL: cavalry

Have you not captured any tanks ?

Not in this scenario.

At work now, but as the Russians in 43 I have a few Panthers, Tigers and elephants I captured (less then 10 of all these, like 1-3 of each).

All this 'pro-German' guys are not playing the game right [:D] I have a bunch of really nice Soviet Red Guards watiing for you... [8D] darn panzer pushers... [;)]

Kid - I notice you have Beta Tester in your signature pic.   Have we moved to Beta?!!!!!![;)]   Just gearing up for the next campaigning season, eh?

Stuart

ORIGINAL: von Jaeger

Kid - I notice you have Beta Tester in your signature pic.   Have we moved to Beta?!!!!!![;)]   Just gearing up for the next campaigning season, eh?

Stuart

No, I just always think of myself as a Beta Tester. We are still in Alpha.