HardLuckYetAgain
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ORIGINAL: HardLuckYetAgain Tyronec and Roadwarrior are far better players than me & I believe Tyronec said it the best on the current state of the game. I can only parapharse it but went something on the line of, "if you don't take the Soviet out in 41 early 42 then the Soviets will grow massive and Germany will die in 44". Of course Tyronec put it much more elegantly. I do think that the game does favor the Soviets. But it isn't that bad at the moment, I think... I think this is an excellent point, and I am coming to agree with this. I am about to start a Stal to Berlin as Germany vs. a good opponent (Speedysteve) and I expect to get quashed. In testing I played the other side vs. Loki, and by early '44 was rolling toward Romania. I don't think the solution is necessarily to help the Germans in '41 take out the Soviet Union, but rather some later help for the Germans....not sure how, since 1943 turns into a feedback loop where Soviets win, increase morale, get stronger, while Germans constantly doing the opposite. I really don't know the cure......the game certainly favors a supplied attacker, especially in clear terrain The crux is the casualty rate to the Soviets. The Soviets can control the flow in 41 with retreat & retreat and retreat. The Germans are hard pressed to do anything about it if the Soviets retreat correctly. To have a chance the Germans have to surround then force surrender many many Soviets and it isnt going to happen in WITE2. By the time the Germans get to a Soviet line the units are rested, with good leaders, well supplied. Thus when the germans do attack the casualties are way low and Soviets retreat from a combat with minimial losses. Then during their turn the Soviets just rotate out the Divisions that got hit for a rest. I saw this and was no way I was going to play the Soviets again in WITE2 and decided to end a game before even getting started when I came back this month. I like a challenge and thus went back fully to the German side. On top of that my game is a no early end which will be "Hell on Earth" for me to even survive til 1944. I don't think it can be done as Germany. But that is just me looking into my crystal ball. Don't even get me started on the free AP's given tot he Soviets by mid 1943. 1500 AP is a very large number of AP to do anything with. If you are going to give APs then subdivide the gifted AP where you have the normal AP you get a turn then break it down to what it was given for and only can be used for it. Thus the AP for Cav should only be used to purchase Cav & not build a whole bunch of forts instead.
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