Flaviusx -> RE: Disaster in the making. Oloren (axis) vs Terje (USSR) (1/15/2012 6:34:00 PM)
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ORIGINAL: Q-Ball 172 Rifle Corps seems like overkill there, too. There are about 100 hexes of frontage straight-line, so max 130-ish. IMO, Corps should never man the front-lines, it's way more efficient to use Rifle Divisions. You should have 100-ish Rifle Divisions still, but much Fewer Corps. They are offensive formations. Partially disagree. It's completely fine to dump all your rifle divisions into a corps. However, using an entire corps for mere passive defense of one given hex is bad economy of force: split it up into 3 and use the breakdowns for to defend 3 single hexes. You can always reform the corps later if necessary. In general (not just in this game) I'm seeing very poor economy of force in the late game from Soviets. They are not massing in limited sectors and are defending with too much in others. There's a bad tendency to spread out the Red Army more or less evenly along the front. The only way the Soviets can ever get things moving is by massing on important parts of the fron in great depth and launching attacks in echelon. Merely attacking along the entire length of the front and hoping to gradually attrit the Germans isn't enough nor particularly imaginative. This is no way to get the Red Army to Berlin in timely fashion. Pick a good spot on the front. Pile everything you've got on it, blast a hole open, and pour the reserves through. When I mean mass, I mean mass, put more or less all your artillery and mobile stuff along with a disproportionate amount of rifle corps and drill a hole. Attack in echelon, that is to say, have forces available to launch multiple attacks on this sector of the front, and to exploit gaps in the line. If you're doing this right, you will piled up 3-4 hexes deep in the area of concentration with all your bad boys.
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