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ORIGINAL: Searry

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ORIGINAL: thedoctorking

I remember in a game about the Market Garden offensive, the bridging units were key. You could bridge a minor river in a turn (8 hours), but a major river took a day IIRC. And the bridging units were vulnerable and started out far from where they needed to be. But for that operation, capturing intact bridges over major rivers was key to victory. Same thing with the US offensive across the Rhine - capturing the Ludendorff Bridge intact was key to 3rd Army's move across the Rhine - the other armies were a week or ten days behind because they had to build bridges. And the Germans ultimately destroyed the Ludendorff Bridge but by that time the US engineers had deployed several pontoon bridges.

At the scale of this game, don't know if it is worth getting to this level of granularity but certainly commanders at the Army Group and Front levels were concerned about holding or destroying bridges. Having to build a bridge versus being able to cross an undestroyed one, and even being able to repair a damaged bridge versus starting anew made a big difference to the speed that motorized forces could move across major rivers.

Market Garden was a terrible operation from the start. They planned a whole corps moving via a single road.

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ORIGINAL: Wheat

Well, I am against needless micro-management in a game that simulates a turn of 7 days. I would much prefer options to do more variable things, like have the Germans double up the RR repair units (at the cost of having other fronts suffer from no rail repair), so that the game introduces more variable play. Right now, every good Russian player can know EXACTLY how far the German rails can be repaired on any given line, and plan accordingly. With no gas, the German tanks are toothless.

Same for victory conditions. Right now, if all factories in say, Moscow are evacuated, the cost for gaining or losing the city is not the much other than the manpower. Something the Soviets never seem short of in most games.

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ORIGINAL: BigDuke66

Is there anywhere a compact list of the changes that come with WitE2?

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ORIGINAL: GrizzlyKt

so 3 years in the making and still no release date this will be nearly as long as the war took in total why promote something that doesnt exist yet

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ORIGINAL: GrizzlyKt

so 3 years in the making and still no release date this will be nearly as long as the war took in total why promote something that doesnt exist yet