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ORIGINAL: dlazov66

Follow up Questions

4. Are Soviet Guards Divisions/Corps/Armies available and if so how do they effect the game (thinking late war here)

5.  Are German Korps Abtuilungs available and if so how can they be created?

6. Besides German SS divisions will their also be the SS Corps HQ assets available?

7. Have the play testers made to 1943 and beyond yet? I am more interested in the middle to late war when the Soviets have a better chance and crushing and killing German units.

8. How is the Command and Control (C3) aspect handled? For example during the early part of the war (41-42) Hitler stayed out of the OKH business for the most part (until the no retreat orders came about) and Stalin's meddling in 1941-42 cost him units and Generals. As the war in the east progress the axis shifted to the Germans being completely controlled by Hitler continuing interference and confusing orders and the Germans strict obedience to follow orders (sans individualism like Mainstein, Gudieran and Hoffman, until their dismissal or death) while at the other end as the war progress Stalin would listen and let his General Staff conduct the war and operational planning. So the long and the short should be in the early part of the war the Germans should run rough shod over the Russians but as the Russians gain more experience (by about 1943) they begin to not only hold their own, but ultimately defeat the Nazi invaders.

One of the most fustrating aspects of war games (both board and PC) displayed on the eastern front is this lack of command and control and doctrinal shift of the Germans beginning mastering of doctrine and operations overtaken and then superseded by the Soviets doctrine and ultimatly the Soviet victory over Germany.

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ORIGINAL: jaw

3. The basic game mechanics are that everything ground units do is based on movement points. It takes movement points to attack as well as to move but individual units can attack more than once provided they have sufficient movement points to do so. The turn structure is IGOUGO but as the non-moving player you can have units set to reserve which can possibly allow them to add their strength to units under attack. There is NO plotting of moves (i.e. orders).

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ORIGINAL: jaw

Plans are for the game to include an editor that would allow you to modify units but terrain would not be modifable. Unless you're God I don't know how you could justify wanting to change the terrain. This is after all an historical game.

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ORIGINAL: Rhetor

It's great that this game is getting close to the release. Allow me to ask some questions:

- would players be able to continue the game after having reached the victory conditions for the scenario?
- are Polish units included in Soviet OOB?

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ORIGINAL: Gresbeck

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ORIGINAL: jaw

3. The basic game mechanics are that everything ground units do is based on movement points. It takes movement points to attack as well as to move but individual units can attack more than once provided they have sufficient movement points to do so. The turn structure is IGOUGO but as the non-moving player you can have units set to reserve which can possibly allow them to add their strength to units under attack. There is NO plotting of moves (i.e. orders).

And how is combat handeled when a hex gets attacked by different units which have spent different movement points? Suppose a unit is already in position to attack and another unit has moved during the turn; does the moving unit enter the battle later? Or does the unit that didn't move "wait" till the second arrives (so that both expend the same amount of MP)?

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ORIGINAL: jaw

The scenarios in which there are Polish units that fight on the Russian side are just Russian units with Polish designations (i.e. there is no Polish nationality in the game).

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ORIGINAL: freeboy

can someone talk about FOW and if intellegence gathering, photo recon, contact reports etc play int othis? I saw in a post alot of enemy info being reported.. thanks

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Maybe I didn't make myself clear... I was enquiring about modding the look of the graphics... are they bmp, png?

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ORIGINAL: jaw

The scenarios in which there are Polish units that fight on the Russian side are just Russian units with Polish designations (i.e. there is no Polish nationality in the game).



Thank you.

I hope that you have taken into account the fact that all ten Polish infantry (not rifle!) divisions formed under Soviet patronage were organized according to TO&E of a Soviet guards rifle division.

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ORIGINAL: Helpless

Actually there is a Polish nationality as such in the game. But it is used only for accounting the population/manpower. But as Jim said no combat units of Polish nationalities currently supported by engine. Who knows what could happen later on ...

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ORIGINAL: Rhetor

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ORIGINAL: Helpless

Actually there is a Polish nationality as such in the game. But it is used only for accounting the population/manpower. But as Jim said no combat units of Polish nationalities currently supported by engine. Who knows what could happen later on ...

I can well live with Polish units being differentiated only by their name. There weren't so many of them, when compared to the size of the Soviet army. In 1945 there were two Polish army commands, ten infantry divisions, an independent tank brigade, heavy tank regiment, a few artillery brigades, and a tank corps.

How would that manpower calculation work? Does it mean that the Germans actually draw replacements from the occupied territories as if it was their own?

And one more question - Guard status. In War in Russia Soviet divisions, brigades etc. were being given a "Guard" status when their experience exceeded a given level. It wasn't so with army commands though. How would that work in War in the East?

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ORIGINAL: Arstavidios

hello,
A few questions:

1 - It seems the soviets can build some units in addition to the reinforcements they get. What kind of things can they build?
2 - Support units do not appear on the map how are they handled? I guess there's some kind of general pool.........
3 - what kind of support units are there, I suppose there are corps assets like artillery units, engineers, antitank units, assault gun units.......?
4 - how do airbases work? are there some airstrip or do you suppose it is preexisting wherever the airbase units moves to? Can you attach additional support units to airbase like AA units?
5 - stacking is three units. Do HQS count? Airbases?
6 - Germany cannot create any additional units. This means everything is recieved through production, including airbases, support units and corps army and army group HQ? No possibility to create an additional army HQ for exemple?
7 - Some units have to be withdrawn for vatious reasons. I suppose it's a specific unit at a specific time. what happens when a unit is supposed to withdraw for refit whereas it is in good shape? are the benefits of the rebuild lost?
8 - the german army used large numbers of soviets for various duties like garrison, construction work, cooks, drivers, anti partisan duties....... In all well over 1000000 men. Is this factored into the game and in the TOE of the units like osttruppen support or infantry squads for exemple? ar they just factored into the general replacement rates?
9 - does the production system adjust to produce what is most needed or is there a fixed production of each item like allied production in witp.  For exemple I may be short of 105 mm guns whereas I may have a surplus of 150mm howitzers, or I may need some infantry squads whereas I have plenty of support squads in the pool, what happens then?

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ORIGINAL: karlxii

Hi, another question which I´ve not found here so far (though I apologize if I have missed it)

- Is the enourmous Allied supply to the Soviet modelled in the game ? Or is it just taken into account in the normal production/replacement pool and will the Soviet have American/British vehicles in their pool ?
- Can you capture Murmansk or Archangelsk and deny part of that supply by sea ?

Thanks!

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ORIGINAL: Arstavidios

hello,
A few questions:

1 - It seems the soviets can build some units in addition to the reinforcements they get. What kind of things can they build?
2 - Support units do not appear on the map how are they handled? I guess there's some kind of general pool.........
3 - what kind of support units are there, I suppose there are corps assets like artillery units, engineers, antitank units, assault gun units.......?
4 - how do airbases work? are there some airstrip or do you suppose it is preexisting wherever the airbase units moves to? Can you attach additional support units to airbase like AA units?
5 - stacking is three units. Do HQS count? Airbases?
6 - Germany cannot create any additional units. This means everything is recieved through production, including airbases, support units and corps army and army group HQ? No possibility to create an additional army HQ for exemple?
7 - Some units have to be withdrawn for vatious reasons. I suppose it's a specific unit at a specific time. what happens when a unit is supposed to withdraw for refit whereas it is in good shape? are the benefits of the rebuild lost?
8 - the german army used large numbers of soviets for various duties like garrison, construction work, cooks, drivers, anti partisan duties....... In all well over 1000000 men. Is this factored into the game and in the TOE of the units like osttruppen support or infantry squads for exemple? ar they just factored into the general replacement rates?
9 - does the production system adjust to produce what is most needed or is there a fixed production of each item like allied production in witp.  For exemple I may be short of 105 mm guns whereas I may have a surplus of 150mm howitzers, or I may need some infantry squads whereas I have plenty of support squads in the pool, what happens then?

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1. Are regions/cities sources of manpower/industrial production?

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2. Are strategic resources, like Oil, Tungstene or Manganese, factored in the game?