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ORIGINAL: Centuur
It's amazing how things have turned around in the USSR, don't you think. A couple of turns earlier the Soviets looked to be gone, but no, they are alive and kicking...
Using MWiF as the engine, I feel that I'm interacting with history in a way that you can't get from books or documentaries. For example, though the timeline is different, the situation at Stalingrad paralleling history has given me insight into what must have been the ebbs and flows of expectations and emotions at the top level of the German and Soviet governments and military. As the Soviets knowing the moves I made at a critical time has most likely given Germany Stalingrad, which will result in the isolation of Georgia and the Caucuses from the rest of the Soviet Union. And knowing that this isolation will mean the loss of over 40% of the resources feeding Soviet factories. As the German player, knowing that all it takes is one or two more blows to permanently cripple the Soviet Union which will then allow me to focus on the growing threat from the West. Then to see all that flipped on its head when two Soviet infantry armies heavily outnumber and outgunned hold the line against all odds (i.e., the Germans rolled a 4 I believe). This is not reading or watching about history but interacting with it! I've played other strategic level WW2 corps games, but nothing compares to the hours of entertainment, enjoyment and knowledge I gain when playing MWiF.
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ORIGINAL: Centuur
Why isn't the 6-1 GAR moving towards the frontlines? It's a very usefull winterized loss taker to have around next turn, when the chances on snow are pretty high... I didn't move him because any move, even on a rail/road, would disorganize him. But I probably should have moved him anyway especially if the turn ends on the axis impulse.
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ORIGINAL: Cohen
I am pretty not sure why the Luftwaffe operates in the Med - entirely against the odds - and risking precious quality assets (such as the Ju88 that has only 1 pt of Air-to-Sea, that any AA would anyhow deny too) which would be much more useful on the ground (It's still a 3 ground strike worth bomber in bad weather) The Ju88 was added to the West Med to open up the flow of supplies through that sea area. The reality was that any air unit with any air to sea factors would do, the Ju88 was the only unit available. Keeping axis supplies flowing through the West Med and the Italian Coast was deemed to be much more higher priority than the potential loss of the Ju88 unit.
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ORIGINAL: Cohen
and why there are W.Allied forces scattered on all the boxes in general (Like the FTR in West.Med in the 1 box; to find Axis with a dice of 1 out of 10? Or better to use it on the 0 box where probably there are also ships bringing more troops as extra cover if the Axis is lucky and finds you?)
The allies had gotten complacence about the control of the West Med and only had SCS there. When the Germans moved the Ju88 and then a fighter unit there, the allies scrabble to get some fighters to the West Med. The allies decided to put the fighter units into the highest box they could get them in order to maximize the possibility of engaging and shooting down, or at least aborting, the Ju88.
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