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gwgardner -> RE: A couple questions... (11/25/2015 12:52:19 PM)
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ORIGINAL: 76mm
Has anyone played far enough into the campaign to have encountered the cold snap yet? Can anyone briefly describe how these effects are modeled? Also, are weather conditions generally the same over the whole map, or are there various weather regions?
As Bartheart said, yes the encircled units can mount a counter-attack along with units outside the encirclement. However, early in the game, the power of the German forces can usually contain any such counter-attack IF the player watches his flanks and keeps his fuel/supply going.
I've played to the end, in Feb 1. '42. I took Leningrad, but only with the help of the Finns (they can come in sometimes if the conditions are right and the Germans make the right decisions). I took Kharkov but could not cross the Don farther south, so was well away from Rostov. I got to within the outskirts of Moscow, but lack of fuel and the effects of bad weather stalled me, and the Soviet AI counterattacked and reinforced the central front.
The great thing about weather in this game is that it's not all one or the other. As in real life. There SEEM to be like 15-20 zones (don't quote me on that), the player is hit by fronts essentially, that can leave a swath of mud for instance, or later snow, then frozen ground. Lakes frozen over are modeled, with movement and supply across them.
The mud can occur not just in November; I had one game in which a rain front crossed parts of the north and central sectors in August, followed by a week or so of mud, generally from Estonia to to Moscow - but not totally blanketing all that area, but in a realistic swath. That early in the year was rare - only happened a couple of times in the 10-15 campaigns I played, although smaller, localized bad weather occurs more.
There is also an option to alter the historical/typical weather pattern.
Weather effects vary by unit type, on movement and combat. By the time I hit the snow and ice in December/January, my panzers were severely restricted in movement (although I was also suffering from low fuel and fatigue. I had failed to go over to a sustained offensive or even defensive posture early enough). Infantry is affected also.
There are decisions that can effect the vulnerability to weather also - such as early recognition that the troops need better winter equipment. However in my winter game, I was also hampered by low PPs (political points) and bad relations with Wagner and Gercke and Brauchitcsh, and couldn't do anything with those decisions.
But back to the weather itself - it's not simply randomized across the map. It's quite realistically modeled.
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