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Big Campaign. Riga on turn 1 - 12/10/2010 7:22:30 PM   
Avenger


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Status: offline 		I have played my opening several times and I can get to the outskirts of Riga with ease, sometimes with several movement points (Seven MP I think), but I seem unable to attack. Is it possible to attack and capture Riga on the opening turn?
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RE: Big Campaign. Riga on turn 1 - 12/10/2010 7:27:55 PM   
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Status: offline 		Riga is difficult, if not impossible to take on turn 1. You'd have to cross the major river with an entire panzer corps and take your chances on a hasty attack on it from the rear is my guess.

It might be better to simply wait for AGN infantry to get there and grab the place later on. Riga is a dead end strategically and there's better places for Panzer Group 4 to establish a bridgehead across the Dvina with objectives like Pskov and ultimately Leningrad in mind.

< Message edited by Flaviusx -- 12/10/2010 7:28:08 PM >

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RE: Big Campaign. Riga on turn 1 - 12/10/2010 9:10:02 PM   
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ORIGINAL: Avenger

I have played my opening several times and I can get to the outskirts of Riga with ease, sometimes with several movement points (Seven MP I think), but I seem unable to attack. Is it possible to attack and capture Riga on the opening turn?




You can take Riga easily on turn 1, you only need to cross the major river

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RE: Big Campaign. Riga on turn 1 - 12/10/2010 9:24:52 PM   
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Status: offline 		Don't bother trying to take Riga on the first turn you'll just have Pz too far from supply. I took it on the second turn and it was undefended, same thing with Minsk I outflanked the Soviet units on turn one and had the 7th Pz Div in Minsk with the XXXIX Pz Corps close behind on turn 2.

Is that typical? I can understand forces fleeing Riga but I expected at least some speed bumps in and around Minsk some units were to the West but nothing was in Minsk.

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RE: Big Campaign. Riga on turn 1 - 12/10/2010 9:32:59 PM   
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Status: offline 		Sometimes the AI heavily defends cities, sometimes it doesn't. In a challenging test vs the Soviet AI, the AI had placed 40 divisions in Leningrad and surrounding hexes.

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