Increase Fuel Costs For Sustained Offensive Posture, Please

[Flaviusx]

This is pretty broken.

Panzers never ever need to stop once they accumulate a critical mass of fuel. They can even keep moving during an FSB relocation.

There is no need really to ever put them on blitzkrieg posture after the early turns. Firstly, it makes them vulnerable to counterattacks. Secondly, the Luftwaffe is pretty much all the extra bonus they need.

[lancer]

Hi Flaviusx,

Not sure I agree with you there.

Blitzkrieg posture gives you a +40% Offensive bonus compared to Sustained Offensive and a +40 AP movement bonus. That's substantial.

It's not designed to be a posture that you leave your PG's on for the duration but, if you can manage to build up a fuel buffer again, switching back to Blitzkrieg for a while can make all the difference in punching through defensive lines.

The Luftwaffe bonus is very powerful early on but once you start rolling their airbases forward into Russia and running into bad weather it can dissipate pretty fast.

Cheers,
Cameron

[Flaviusx]

In my present PBEM game an FSB relocation from Vilnius to Smolensk proved to be no break whatsoever on the panzers, and by moving forward in big wedges they cannot be counterattacked, either. They just kept rolling on forward. Seems to me that this kind of change in supply base ought to have some effect.

All the mobile units in this game are now set to sustained offensive posture and near as I can tell will be able to move forward in perpetuity. Big Soviet stacks of regulars in good terrain aren't stopping them, either, at least if they have air support.

They don't need to switch over to blitzkrieg posture.

[lancer]

Hi Flaviusx,

Stalin wasn't too excited on the day either.

Similar reasons.

Cheers,
Cameron