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gids -> RE: WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WANT TO PLAY THE RUSSIAN SIDE! (4/9/2012 11:39:40 AM)
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with te latest patches it isnt tbh,i played a game now against the AI and yes there it is like it should be ,a good dam game ,but against a german human ,wel get yourself ready to get the whipping of your life
i played against some superb opponent i have to say though
1st 1 was tarhunnas you can read the AAR :) beating of a lifetime ,i played very offensive which costed me in the end 15 million casualties,then i tried a game against a michael some month ago well lets say i gave up he took leningrad moscou and was a good chunk onwards to stalingrad ,pretty amazing that game ,i think he found a way to handle the supply like modern times and then i played anorak ,that game started out ok but after a while i noticed i never was in a position i could hurt him ever,maybe sometimes cut a unit of yes
i decided to play defensive against him....so retreating when i was in danger losing tons of lives,trying to use rivers as defensive lines ,a mix of carpet and line defense that went ok till the blizzard i still lost leningrad and moscou though .....just like glaca in his last game and i think hes defense was even better planned then mines with more thought to the units,he should never have lost moscou ,but i was ok ..lets play on maybe i gave up ground to fast(which i still find ridiculous,playing smart being punished),then blizzard came and i couldnt do as much damage as i wanted tbh ,german players already know they will get hurt so they just retreat every turn 1 to 2 hexes (pretty much calculated) and you dont get through and they survive the blizzard without to much problems ,but ok thats a tactic and still have np with it
then i made defense some turns before blizzard ended ,because from my game against tarhunnas ,i know the germans in 42 are still damass strong,so i knew he would hit in the south(leningrad moscou taken,dont need rocketscience degree to figure that 1 out) and i made 1 a 3 to 4 layer defense line all over strengthened with forts on keypoints ...lol he went through it like the re was nothing,units in reserve nothing helped ,y i had some small succeses but once the german player gets through....well youre in for a treat its 41 all over ,he kept going and going i piled up army after army in front of him (as russian you are not allowed to be smart,you need to play like the russians in their time)till he reached stalingrad then he decided to go for baku and he reached it alright
he did tons of supply through air ,your airforce wont intercept em even close, because the airmodel in the game is ....special,your AA units dont seem to fire very good (il be nice ) ,the supply system has never been worse for the soviets ,because apparently the german players have systems now to let it peak and maximize it till over 100%,you as a soviet you will be hindered by your 1-1 counters Thousands of units which rarely will have enough of anything til 43,and dont get me started about the Command cap that changes from 24 to 18 after a year or something so your forced to make HQ and spand AP on a whole reorganization of the front ,(ofc you can avoid that by using immediatly 18 cap ,but you still wont have enough HQ then)
but anyhow i decided to build 2 tankarmies and try to puncture through the sides ,waiting for level 10 freeze weather ,and made guardcorps units with tons of arty to get through it ,wel lets say after that i saw the results i decided to give up,
and yes i put half my units in static mode and yes i put the units that needed it in refit and maximized the supply
a good german player will now go for leningrad and moscou before the blizzard(which in 95% he will reach),and after the blizzard he will put everything in the south ALL his panzers all his SU (something that didnt really happen in real,but in the game they can pull it off because your units in the north and center wont be strong enough to push through ,so he will screen em and all reserves south,you wont stop that train i promise you
conclusion if you want to play a good fun game as the soviets you have 2 options
A play the ai ,it does a good job and still will prove a challenge ,but not as satisfying as playing against a human(although never had much satisfaction tbh) :p
B play a retarded human germ player who drools and never heared of WItE and is its first game so you have a chance :p.
this is not critisism tbh it is just like it is ,not ment to play against a human german opponent ,if you try it against anyone like some famous german names here in the forum get prepared to be very dissapointed :),ofc still give it a go by al means
PS this all my personal opinion,i still have dam big fun playing the scenarios and the AI ,i just hope they will rework some things in time,i read in WiTW about supply depots , that sounds like a dam great idea,even if your units are trapped you still can draw some supply from that depot and have a chance to free your units ,where it is now zero chance or maybe 3%
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