Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

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ORIGINAL: Tophat1812

So far so good.............Looks as though you can take out 10+ divisions next turn. Who'd of ever thought you'd be within 6 hexes of stalingrad in October of 43'???

He built the wrong stuff and had a screwup and you started the AP crunch. You never stop to rest anything, resting simply gives SHC time to grow 2x faster then you do.

Good play on your part and poor on his.

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ORIGINAL: sillyflower

Only 54K artillery is the real measure of his weakness - not much more than a third of what he should have

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ORIGINAL: veji1

He is beyond dead, he is already buried in game terms. There is only one thing to do, in the words of Mortal Kombat "Finish Him".

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ORIGINAL: juret

gogogo

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ORIGINAL: Disgruntled Veteran

Is Moscow enough to give you auto victory?

or

Do you think Brad will continue to fight if it falls?

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ORIGINAL: terje439

Thank you
Well, against how I had played earlier, I think Brad did not build the wrong stuff, however as soon as I learned to create pockets he was in deep trouble.
The running back was not as much as the fear of reduced morale, but more from the fact that in my last few games I have lost far too many divisions during blizzard. Makes no sense to stay and let them die. Better to fall back to the "no blizzard effect" areas and keep your divisions. Atleast when you do not gain more ground in -41 than I did.
Sadly, falling back 2 hexes per turn just is not enough, as the USSR will still be able to ZoC-lock some of your units.

What is scary though is just how many units Brad had to lose before the AP-crunch really took effect.


Terje

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ORIGINAL: AFV

Terje did not run like hell or just go back to the start line- he did a graceful retreat 2 hexes a turn during most of the blizzard- and did it very well- limiting the number of Soviet attacks while keeping as much land as he could. It was a lot more masterful than just run like hell. He ended up well to the east of the start line! He never lost Riga, for example.

I think a lot of the issues with the replacement system come from setting units across the board at 85%. I rarely see issues when I have units on refit, on rail, TOE set at 100%. There is no doubt it is harder as the German to have units off the line refitting- not trying to debate that. Also, I have observed that all things being equal- if I have two identical shell units, in the same situation, except one has TOE set at 50% and the other at 100%, the 100% TOE one will get more replacements that first turn.

I'm just saying what I see from my games (mostly as Russian). I have not set down and ran turns over and over testing this, so I cannot prove it- its just the feel I get.

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

If you look where he stopped was very same lines I stopped at. I did not lose Riga until many months later and only because of an exploit, which has been nerfed.

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ORIGINAL: AFV

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

If you look where he stopped was very same lines I stopped at. I did not lose Riga until many months later and only because of an exploit, which has been nerfed.

Thats a nice fun fact, but I was referring to Terje's game, not one of yours.

The rest of your post, I more or less agree with- except the replacement system working differently for the German depending on where the lines are in relation to Berlin. If that's what you have seen, I will take your word for that but in your game with MT- I went and looked at that game (now I am referring to a game of yours :), you felt at one point there was an issue with replacements, but Matrix went back and said they did not see an issue when everything was set at 100% (agrees with what I have seen in games).

I am not saying the replacement system works and all units get exactly what you think they should. They generally get something, it seems to have a lot of random results in it, and I think, its WAD- to reflect the fact that getting replacements was hit or miss. Look, it took Radar 2 months to get toilet seats in Korea (MASH reference).

About the only thing I can conclude is:
It helps to be on a rail.
It helps greatly to not be adjacent to enemy units.
The closer to full TOE your unit is currently at, the less it will receive
The lower you set your TOE%, the lower the priority for that unit to get replacements, regardless of what is available.
Shells can get massive amounts (like from 0% to 60% in one turn), while a unit next to it at 75% will gain 5% only
Some kind of random factor is applied across the board.
It seems leader rolls should be a factor but I don't see it.

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ORIGINAL: janh

Congrats! Now this looks like a serious haul of prisoners. Let me guess -- this is de facto the end of the Red Army? You are happy to have such an opponent, btw. I fear I would already have come with a white flag at this point. Looks very disastrous to loose at these units now.

Question: Does he defend in depth, or does he stack everything at the front, like it would seem from you images?