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ORIGINAL: Alexander Seil

Well, the title sums it up. From what I understand, the production schedule is fixed. The question is, why?

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ORIGINAL: benpark

Here's my take on it (as an informed alpha tester rather than speaking for the developers)-

Think of this game as putting you in charge of STAVKA or OKH, with no possibility of replacement by the two crazies in charge. You put the forces in place and run the offensive and defensive plays, down to divisional levels (and some below). The game is (and I'll invent a phrase here) "massive-operational" rather than strategic. They (and other departments) run the economics.

I get the need to control all aspects of the war, but you are going to be stunned by the amount you can do each turn if you wish with deciding where to put sub-units within armies, corps and divisions and figuring out where you need to be allocating your scant resources to deal with the land mass you will be attacking and defending.

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ORIGINAL: itsjustme

With all due respect, its concerns me greatly that there is no intention to allow players to change production.   If you want to play with historical production, there is no reason this can't be agreed to or simply include a "switch" to allow custom or historical production.  Pyledriver, while I can certainly understand that you may not want the additional micromanagement, others certainly will and do.  (see the fact that WITP is far and away matrix's most popular title).   Moreover, as with WIR, the game will rapidly deteriorate into a simply german punching bag towards the end of the war.  While certainly many players, including me, will relish the challenge of "doing something with nothing" against the Red Army in 44-45, I would also like the ability to play "what if" games by changing production, rather than having to delve into an editor.   Additionally, I find it very odd to have a Gary Grigsby game where production cannot be altered.  After all, logistics are an incredibly significant part of all of his games and logistics doesn't just mean supply movement.

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ORIGINAL: itsjustme

Flipper-

I apologize if that's how you read my posts.  Not intended that way.   As I've said, this is generally out of character for GG games and as for replayability, it is hard to argue that leaving production out doesn't affect that.   I look forward to continuing to follow the development.

Kid-

Neither you or Pyle Driver should take my posts as anything other than love and affection for the theater that you guys are recreating.  I was 20 when I got my first copy of WIR and have been playing it ever since (I'm 40 now).  As with most of Gary's games, the criticisms are made out of wanting the best game possible, not out of malice.    I appreciate the thankless job that testers do and encourage you to continue to make it the best game it can be.  I won't change my mind that the lack of ability to change production is a pretty big flaw, but I don't proffer that opinion out of malice.

Carry on.