heliodorus04
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Joined: 11/1/2008 From: Nashville TN Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: CarnageINC Are you attacking them after encirclement on the turn you do the encirclement? You must wait until the next turn before attacking units that are in the pocket. So first turn encircle, next turn destroy....rinse and repeat as much as you can Did that answer your question? +1 First you encircle - this changes nothing on the turn that you do it, because during the prior soviet turn, they drew supply. End turn When the Soviet turn starts, encircled units cannot draw supply, and suffer all sorts of "Oh-my-god-what-do-we-do-now?" penalties. You will almost always see them TRY to evacuate to friendly-supplied hexes. End Soviet turn NOW they are "isolated" and it takes very little to get them to Surrender (which nets about 98% of combat personnel as casualties). On that 2nd turn, ensure: You set your Air Doctrines "percent to fly mission" HIGH so that you don't waste planes flying to missions where they're not needed. You cut off whatever means of retreat to Soviet-held hexes (even those within encircled pockets) your combat opponent has, and where you can't take them, ensure you have a ZOC into them. Experiment using minimal combat power, and hasty attacks. I've seen Axis regiments take soviet corps once isolated (I've seen that fail, too, mind you). If you're attacking a unit on the turn you surround it (i.e., it's not yet isolated), you end up with a lot of Route results, which aren't BAD, but it means a lot of combat power can escape back to a manpower pool and be used in a variety of ways still.
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