Oleg Mastruko
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Joined: 10/21/2000 Status: offline
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Now if someone tells me Germans are not supermen.... Leningrad, he just bulldozes his way forward, no subtlety, no flanking, no manouver, just brutal force attacking forward. And he will probably get there. His forces suffer no morale loss... Obviously, since the morale in WITE is gained by winning, and having to fight day and night away from home with your buddies dying bad food no toilet paper and your wife back home leaving you for the drug addict member of the motorcycle gang does not affect morale as long as you win battles. Fritzes have no supply problems, no feelings, no brain, no soul, they fight like goddam robots.... Fatigue, if they suffer any, I must conclude it has no or negligible influence on their combat performance... I really don't see what could I have done differently regarding LG defence. If anything, I alotted MORE units for this sector, and better units. I even transferred some of them very good Kiev tank and mech units here since his southern opening was pretty weak. I put them in good defensive terrain. I let them build forts, best commanders, tons of support units, best available C&C structure, whole nine yards.... He didn't outsmart me, he didn't flank me, he didn't do anything I could not predict.... And yet, his god in this game appears to be simply stronger than my god and there is nothing I can do. (May be logical after all since commies are atheists LOL!) In the memorable words of Mongol leader Hulagu: "Our horses are swift, our arrows sharp, our swords like thunderbolts, our hearts as hard as the mountains, our soldiers as numerous as the sand. Fortresses will not detain us, nor arms stop us. Your prayers to God will not avail against us. We are not moved by tears nor touched by lamentations. Only those who beg our protection will be safe. Hasten your reply before the fire of war is kindled. Resist and you will suffer the most terrible catastrophes. We will shatter your mosques and reveal the weakness of your God and then we will kill your children and your old men together." Now, imagine old von Leeb, AGN leader, saying this in his message to LG Front Commander LOL This is funny and if you know von Leeb and imagine him saying this it's even more funny. BTW I didn't see Hulagu on the list of WITE beta testers but he appears to have played WITE beta because above description is incredibly accurate regarding German soldiers in WITE summer 41! WHAT DOES THIS FREAKING GAME WANT ME TO DO TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT SUPERMEN ON EQUAL TERMS? OK, lets forget fighting on anything remotely resembling equal terms, what do I have to do to inflict casualties, fatigue, bad omens, TOE losses, constipation, diarhhea, ANYTHING to these ubermen??? German supermen are simply unstoppable, and anyone saying otherwise is wrong. OK rant over. Having said all that, I don't feel too bad about LG. If he takes the city by brute force, there will be no encirclements and I will retreat in good order. Since his position elsewhere is not too threatening, him taking LG might in fact make the game more interesting long term. So, let him have it but the way the game allows him to take it - by ubermen force - frankly leaves bad taste in my mouth. Nevermind, the blizzards will come and then I will have my own supermen. Hulagu will then be Mother Theresa compared to what my hearless ubermen will do to his German winter wussies. Elsewhere, not much happened in the last couple turns. My retreats described above worked like charm, and he spent lots of MPs to just take the area I left. He had some half hearted and not entirely successful attempts at enciclements in the south, but the most interesting development is around LG at the moment.
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