Guards Tank DIVISION

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Guards Tank DIVISION

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Shouldn't this guy have turned into a tank brigade, not that I'm complaining. You don't see one of these everyday.



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HHQ: Cav Rum Corps?
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Same happened to me a while back, bar the guards status. I noticed when the division suddenly started getting 20+ MP a turn. Turned out to be a run of lucky conversion die rolls and it did turn into a brigade in the end.
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Very rarely a tank division will be unusually delayed in converting. It does happen.

What's more curious here is the HQs.
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The HQ issue concerns me greatly, because in my last game vs. Cannonfodder, when 1.05.18 hit, his Soviet planes were using German Luftwaffe commander leadership ratings (I wouldn't have known, but it was confirmed by Helpless). It was bad enough for the air war (pretty much ruined my Leningrad attacks), but if it were to start happening in the ground war, the game would be unplayable until fixed (for me at least).
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Well, it is in Craiova, west of Bucharest - either against the AI on easy or a comatose opponent that early in 1942? The Romanians have flipped.
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I just bought the game a couple of weeks ago, my 4th iteration of G.Grigsby Russian campaign. For my first time playing I chose to be soviet gc vs AI on easy mode. After reading the some AAR's I figured I could screw up big time and still pull it out. Of course easy mode is really easy; stopped him short of Leningrad and held the Stalin line. Glad the AI doesn't to the Lvov gambit!


I liberated Romania during the blizzard, and attached 8 CP worth of tanks to the Romanian Cav Corp HQ that popped up; its got a 6 mech skill soviet leader though.
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I guessed right! See, even a broken record can tell time once in a blue moon of sundays.
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I just hope it doesn't convert to a brigade now! I wonder if it would retain Guards status.
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ORIGINAL: Mehring

Same happened to me a while back, bar the guards status. I noticed when the division suddenly started getting 20+ MP a turn. Turned out to be a run of lucky conversion die rolls and it did turn into a brigade in the end.

That's what I noticed...why does this one have 50 MP? I also picked up a (the?) Romanian panzer division with full movement.
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I think engine got "confused" by so early Rumanian conversion. Can you post a thread on the Tech forum with save attached? Thanks.
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ORIGINAL: Helpless
I think engine got "confused" by so early Rumanian conversion.

I think that the engine being confused by such an untimely demise of the Axis fortunes is quite reasonable [:)]
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ORIGINAL: Helpless

I think engine got "confused" by so early Rumanian conversion. Can you post a thread on the Tech forum with save attached? Thanks.
Sure,I'll do that when I get home.
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I should have kept quite, he converted to a brigade a bit later.

And BTW, just like with Rifle Corps, using two Guards Tank BDE and one regular you can make a Guards Tank Corps.
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