Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: morvael

It's a bit annoying (actually the whole partisan system is just micromanagement hell) that SEC regiment is enough to control most small cities with 100% coverage, but once several of its elements become damaged this drops to 99% and in place of nice blue highlight I get annoying yellow. How do you counter this? Using 2 regiments is overkill, I started to build forts in such cities. Maybe keeping SEC unit on refill mode would be enough? How do you deal with that? It would be great if the regiments would offer around 110% coverage so that would not drop below 100 with 98% of strength remaining...

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ORIGINAL: majeloz

Partisan management is getting tougher now in 1.04 (good, though annoying for me midway through several games as the Axis). Broken rail lines not only can screw up supply but also rail repair. Some tips:

1) security divisions into regiments (as many have suggested).

2) Hungarian and, later, Rumanian Security divisions, plus the Slovak one, into the larger cities (light-urban) since they have more men.

3) bite the bullet. 1 or 2 divisions (such as the static divisions which arrive late in 1941 summer) broken into regiments.

4) in winter, if you have panzers in cities, have a security regiment adjacent to move in, if you ahve to move your armour.

You will need to move units out of the cities to chase the partisans. I am seriously thinking of having some cav units or a motorised brigade or somethiing between cities (where they can cover places the city troops cant) which can chase them without then giving up city control. Could also be in a city, though sometimes terrain is wrong.

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ORIGINAL: hfarrish

As the retreating Germans in 43, my army can barely survive without a fortified line to fall back on...I'm not sure how you would manage without one (unless you make a grand retreat in mid-43 back into Poland to give yourself time to dig in). I assume that the forts sucked up some manpower that would have gone to the front (I created a line from the Baltic and then from Pskov to Vyzama and then down the Dnepr...so a lot of forts). My manpower during this period grew significantly, so other than sucking up some mortars I'm not sure how this really impacted the front. The mechanics of getting troops into the front line are still pretty unclear to me - by fall of 43 my front line strength is down to 2.6M and falling, but my manpower pool has grown during the period and now simply holds steady at about 850k (with armaments holding steady at 30k). I guess my point is I'm not sure whether FZs actually take troops from the field or are just another draw on manpower/armaments.

Still looking for someone who has played the 42 or 43 GC as a PBEM and (without winning or seriously mauling the Soviets in 42) actually been able to delay the Soviet steamroller significantly longer than historical...