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Adam Parker -> RE: How do you usually start? (4/16/2004 1:08:40 PM)
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What you're experiencing is very normal in any game! First up take some time to acquaint yourself with the spread and location of your forces, check the locations of forseeable reinforcements. This gives you a solid understanding of your assets.
Next look at the enemy's locations from what you can see. A very basic summary of the military art is to look for weakness in your enemy, exploit it and then break into the rear - all with an eye on your overall strategic goals. In Korsun there are a few of these targets - break the enemy, take objectives that won't overly spring the enemy into "reaction" and hold the roads because everyone knows the MUD is coming!
So first up - find your forces, seek to keep your divisions together and initially maneuver them so that they can fight that way, move your artillery to spots you plan on attacking early on, then slowly over the first few turns chisel the enemy's front lines away starting with vulnerable positions and moving on as your breakthroughs form. Use your engineers to subsequently clear the residual minefields away.
Your west flank will take a lot of finesse in locating the right spots to exploit first. As historically.
There's another military concept you can seek to prove too. "Schwerepunkt". The saying goes "he who defends everything defends nothing", hence on the attack the belief is to mass at a point where you possess an absolute superiority in numbers and then strike at that point massively. Seek to make your main thrust at one particular location albeit for ruses and feints to lure a cautious enemy away. Once you've cracked the enemy open feed everything into the seam, broaden it, push it wider and then feed highly mobile troops to play havoc with your enemy's rear.
And just remember that if you're playing the Russians it took them about 4 years to master that art. So go easy on yourself as you see some plans hit and others go badly missing!
Lastly, avoid the urge to restart if you don't like something you've seen. I'm sure Wellington didn't like loosing his Scotts Greys eiither but he won the day regardless. Yet, he wasn't facing the SS Wiking was he?
Adam.
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