Petiloup -> RE: French North Africa (9/6/2007 11:36:56 AM)
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Think this is related to the main problem of playing a game. In reality the Allies will not have risked their armies by rushing an invasion of Europe to prevent the collapse of the Soviet Union. We send little icons to get killed by Germany and bitch about an automatic hit but it's just a game. In reality Eisenhower was sending hundreds of thousands of young guys to get killed and he had to live with it. In 1942 the US army was composed of Green units without any fighting experience, air supremacy was far from being achieved over Europe (read about the raid on Dieppe), landing crafts were being still build, the UBoats were still a real menace, so if you put Operation Torch in France at the same time it would have been a disaster. Even in 1944 Eisenhower was far from convinced D-Day would be a success. So in 1942 what they could do is make sure Rommel would be contained and hit the soft belly of Europe, Italy. Also don't forget that in reality FOW is not lifted so easily. So attacking is always taking a big risk which in AWD isn't as you can commit to an attack, look at your ratio and retreat if not favorable. In reality you send your troops, they die and if too many dies then you retreat but it's already a bit late.
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