golden delicious
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Well, I don't have much time either and this period isn't my speciality- but a few comments based on the screenshot: 1) Unimproved roads: in TOAW, this means a road which becomes more or less useless in heavy rain. I suspect every single road hex in your screenshot would constitute "improved road" in TOAW terms, or no road at all if it's too small for use by significant forces. Heavy rain would not materially impact the ability of mechanised forces to move around West Germany in 1990. 2) Urban: I picked a town at random, Selsingen. Wikipedia gives a population of 3,601 in 2019, and helpfully also suggests a density of 86 per square kilometre. That means a single 5km hex, with an area of 25 square kilometres, would actually only contain 2,150 residents. Go to Google Maps and check out a 2.5km radius around towns like these: this hex isn't urban. I'd suggest setting a minimum population for an urban hex and sticking with it; as it is, the Soviets are basically advancing through suburban sprawl across the entire North German Plain. You should do the same for dense urban, too: check the area between Osdorf and Pinneberg, it's actually mostly open country. Perhaps "urban" at a push. 3) Ant units: There may be some improvements in the way TOAW handles these with recent releases, but I'd suggest that having loads of 1-1 AA companies dotted across the map could cause serious problems. They'll get in combat, they'll subdivide, and suddenly a hex is "full" because it contains nine platoon of AA troops totalling about 300 personnel. At a minimum, give them the section icon so they don't subdivide.
< Message edited by golden delicious -- 5/13/2021 11:47:20 AM >
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