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Hard Sarge -> RE: OKH Plan 1942 - Alpha AAR (4/1/2010 12:59:38 PM)
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ORIGINAL: ComradeP
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and, over all, your plan/idea, is worthless to the battle, you are not gaining anything, but getting some troops killed
You're saying you're not gaining anything by making a pocket? Judging by the screenshots, the Soviets don't have a lot of quality forces in 1941-1942, which is historical. If you can pocket those quality forces (Guards units, Tank/Cavalry/Rifle Corps), you will gain quite a lot. Killing units in a pocket will usually result in far less casualties than attacking them head on if the casualty reports from elmo's AAR are an indication.
If you can let the AI advance into some steppe/clear/farmland hexes without much strategic value (ergo: most of the western and southern parts of the map) and can kill units by pocketing them, I don't think that's a "worthless" thing to try. The Germans have to kill Soviet units, and pocketed units seem to die a lot faster than regular units. Besides, it's sort of a backhand blow+ method, and the backhand blow was used with a fair amount of success by both sides (the first years of the war from the Soviet perspective eventually turned into one giant nationwide backhand blow).
well, to be honest, you are twisting the statement, what I was trying to say, to from a line, get a pocket, clean the pocket, and then from the line to set up another pocket, is what I meant is worthless (now, if your moving forward and gaining a pocket each turn, each two turns, great, but, staying in place, to try and suck the AI into a Pocket is not going to be of much use, and as Jon has shown, the AI does not react that way)
last night, I was running the Typhoon battle, on turn 3, I cleaned up my pockets, got 30 Divs and 9 Armor Brigs (about 350,000 men, 350 AFV)
most of the end of the turn, I set up a new pocket, and was able to force a gap, though that gap, I drove deep, because I could get 3 VH's, if I had went for the northern pocket, I may never of gotten to those VH's
as it is, I am getting my butt kicked (those 3 VH and the ones I have taken from the SU, will start to even the score now, if I can hold them)
but, just trying to say, forming pockets and then trying to trick the AI into making a new one, will not help you in the long run (make your stats pretty though)
okay back to Jon, he is the Master at taking Moscow, let him show you the way
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