What is different from Panzer Corps?

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Kuokkanen
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What is different from Panzer Corps?

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What are the differences between this game and Panzer Corps? Theater, obviously. And user interface. Anything else?
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RE: What is different from Panzer Corps?

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Most things are very similar but there are a few key features that are is not included in Panzer Corps and makes this game more advanced:

- Supply (you must defend and be wary of your supply lines. No more sneaking units around without high risks of being cut off from supply)
- Flanking bonus if more than one unit attacks an enemy
- Destroying and building bridges across rivers
- Destroying and laying out minefields.
- More advanced Naval Combat and carriers
- Strategic bombing of supply lines
- More restricted movement rules
- Terrain affects efficiency when traversed by units
- Events that could trigger during a scenario
- Better and more varied objectives as well as secondary objectives
- Dive bombers could be equipped with torpedoes or bombs
- More difficult to destroy units = lesser damage done overall
- The superiority of air dominance is not as powerful as in Panzer Corps
- Command points that restricts the number of units you could commit at any one time divided between army, air and naval units.
- Fortification is reduced if fortificated unit is attacking

I have certainly missed some things.
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RE: What is different from Panzer Corps?

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What are the supply lines like? Like Unity of Command OR The Operational Art of War?

What about transport units? Are those like in Panzer Corps OR like in Battle Isle 3 (or Battle Academy)?
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RE: What is different from Panzer Corps?

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Supply is simple, but effective. You need to trace a path to a supply source. It really pays to try and cut off enemy supply as the units are almost useless out of supply. You're either in or out of supply.
Transports are somewhat like in PzC, but you get to purchase trucks/halftracks for your units.
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RE: What is different from Panzer Corps?

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I don't know Panzer Corps but I understand that it's a good game from comments I have seen. Visually, though, going by Panzer Corps screen prints, I must say OOB looks more realistic (odd relative unit sizing notwithstanding - men half the size of destroyers, for example - but that is a common phenomenon that is soon overlooked and forgotten). I have played OOB a lot recently and I like the artwork and animation.
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