paulderynck -> RE: Rules Clarification List (4/28/2007 7:17:30 AM)
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ORIGINAL: composer99 Outside of the Pripet Marshes, where would a partisan placed in Eastern Poland actually be safe? And aside from letting one less Russian army stand on the front line, how would it do any good as a speed bump? By 1941 most partisans are still 0-1 factor. Sure, there are plenty of forests and swamps in Eastern Poland, but a single partisan unit will stand no chance against any German army force that wants to take care of them - and since the slow-moving German forces will end their impulse in that area, I don't see how a partisan in Eastern Poland will actually slow the German advance. Either it goes in the clear and dies from the overrun, or it goes in the Carpathians and/or Pripets and either gets screened or gets blown away by slow-moving Germans, or it goes in the forests and gets blown away by slow-moving Germans. Thank you for recognizing that the partisans can - at present - go there. The CW would and should place them where they will do the most good to the Allied cause. In such a case, they sit out of the way of the Russians until needed and so they are the safest anti-axis partisans in the world, pre-Barb. The following are possibilites: - there could be more than one of them - in forest (and swamp in winter) even a zero, is a potential hex blocker that cannot be overrun - many have enough movement points to be able to move to somewhere more useful while the Russians withdraw, for example Lvov & Vilna, in which case if it held up the Germans and had zero combat factors, it would even be sweeter! Who cares if they get blown away as long as they slow down some German units? Aren't free units for this purpose better than 2 BP units? Sure they don't have ZOCs, but in combination with other speed bump garrisons, the overall cost to delay the German advance is lower. And, if they are to be blown away in East Poland anyway, how much quicker would they uselessly have their existence terminated in western Poland?
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