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larryfulkerson -> RE: Sicily to Brenner Pass Revised (2/25/2014 5:49:10 PM)
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ORIGINAL: frankieITA
Those are the same problems I faced im my previous game: slow crawling advance on the western side,
little to no advance in the middle or eastern side.
I have a faulty memory but I seem to remember Steve saying he designed the scenario to be this
way on purpose. He said, I think, that the game advance is way way faster than historical and
this lack of supply thing is to force the scenario to give a more historical advance. It's
working as far as I can see. The effect on the player is frustration however, because every
once in a while an opportunity will arise and the player will be unable to take advantage of it.
EDIT: I found a way to get around this little problem. For the past four turns now I've moved
only the RR engineers and lengthened the supply rail closer to the front to raise the supply level
in the front line areas. It seems to be working so far. Another benefit from this is that the
readiness of the supply-poor units rises by not being moved and not attacking.
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ORIGINAL: frankieITA
When I decided to assault on the east I got tremendous losses, like ruining two infantry divisions,
one armored in reorg (New Zealand Div. for me is counting as Armoured Div.) and two armoured
brigades destroyed; as I stated before I started the attacks on the eastern side of the line
and Elmer reacted ordering a Panzer counterattack on the near poor Polish troops. They kept
coming for two consecutive turns, they kind of succeded keeping me at bay and at the third
turn they retreated the whole line keeping two regiments as retroguard.
Keep attacking and they'll give up eventually.
Using the hexes of the Gustav Line ( and the Gothic Line ) where they are 100% entrenched
Elmer has excellent defenses and assaulting them is costly like you've documented. I've
decided that I'm going to try to get some units around behind most of them before I try
to assault the dug in defenders and that theory is slowing down the advance I must say.
But like you said Elmer has ways of plugging any holes I might make.
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ORIGINAL: frankieITA
I see you have the US units really spread up along the width of most of the peninsula.
Since I was waaaaay more concentrated and felt I needed way more divisions for the
Americans, aren't you having problems of lack of regiments?
Yes, as a matter of fact I do feel the need for more regiments. I used the units at
the time where they were needed most without reguard for formation integrity and it
shows. It's time for me to get better organized if possible. Fortunately most
formations are on force support instead of something more restrictive so I can get
away with this sort of tactic.
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ORIGINAL: frankieITA
I see also you're using Canadians and New Zealanders linked to the US units, maybe
they're better fit as you use them instead of historically attaching them to the British.
See my quote above about using units at the time where they are needed most. I'm getting
to the point, however, where I'm trying to get organized better and I'm replacing units
on the front line to move them to where the rest of the formation is.
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ORIGINAL: frankieITA
Also a question for sPzAbt653: I don't want to spoiler Larry the challenges that are to come,
but there's a way to make Elmer do a Mobile Defence on the Padan Plains(the zone between Gothic
line and the Alps)? He seems like giving up the whole theatre of operations after he loses
Gothic line!
I'd like to know the answer to this one myself.
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