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Telumar -> RE: Directive 21 v2.0 (12/4/2010 4:54:28 AM)
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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653
I swear I always laboriously check those events before distribution! Somehow they magically change themselves. [:(]
It looks like 'Oct Revolution' will come back, but 'Marat' won't. I'm pretty sure this was in the release version, and not just 2.0. But Telumar, you can check events 254 and 255 to see if they are for the withdrawal of those units.
They are there in my version. Leningrad fell on Nov 12. So.. i have no idea what happened. And yes, it was the 'Oct Revolution'.
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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653
Units reconstituting at Kronstadt is a problem. Maybe if we sneak a Suez Canal burr right under the Kronstadt name so it can't be seen, then Elmer won't be able to place units there?
I think removing the deep sea supply point (132/106) after the fall of Leningrad will do.
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ORIGINAL: sPzAbt653
Request for more Aggresion for Elmer in Winter '41 - noted. One word on that though - do you feel you put the Axis in the same historical situation that allowed them to be overextended, out of supply and far below strength, which in turn allowed the feeble Soviet masses to boot the Axis back a couple hundred miles? This always concerns me, and I've been waiting for Rick, Patrick, Me and any others to playtest 2.0 to see what the general feeling is (because 3.4 did alter Elmer).
Umm..well... Yes and No.
I think i know what happened. I am on turn 64 now and Elmer's winter offensive shock was over some turns ago. He started it already on turn 49. But pressure, especially on the front east of Moscow is rising (i took Moscow during Typhoon). Nowhere near threatening, but still much more than during the actual offensive. It would have been better for him to wait with the offensive until now. But i think tying the activation of the offensive to strength on the ground is impossible for Elmer.
What happened is, that Elmer lacked the forces to mount an offensive. Now, as the frontlines are static and my offensive actions very limited (in fact since turn 49, except for some mopping up in Moscow's rear) he is receiving more reconstituted units. Just as Moscow fell i could have advanced further east, he had almost nothing east of Moscow. Honestly, i had the feeling i could easily roll through Gorky, across the Urals and right into Siberia..
But i limited myself to not perform such unrealistic advances..
Also, my forces were in a pretty good shape. Panzer Divisions at 80% and more of authorized TOE. Infantry divisions far from depleted. The whole front rested. No signs of overextension at all, i even enveloped Moscow from the south and north with the pincers meeting in the area Zagorsk / Orekhovo-Zuyevo without running into too much resistance, not to mention supply problems.
It comes down to two things: Elmer had lost bitterly during the summer (more than historically). TOAW's supply system.
I never had the feeling supply was a real issue (except in the mud season), but this has not to do with bad design from your side, rather with the supply system in general. There's nothing that could stop me from rolling into Siberia. Well, at least not supply problems... i have begun to limit myself not to become aggressive with units in the red.
If i am at it. Another observation. Murmansk. I was able to take Murmansk. But it was a hard and long campaign, no easy achievment. I had to plan every move and every attack very carefully and have been rewarded. This part of the campaign is very challenging. Well done!
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