wosung -> RE: Play Balance in China (11/15/2006 10:35:11 AM)
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In WIF Chinese OOB isn’t really consistent: Some of the units, which, besides defending against Japanese Army, were also involved in inter-Chinese fighting/maneuvering during WW2 are in the game (like the CCP New 4th Army), some aren’t (like Nationalist 34th Army under Hu Zongnan in Sian). Some WIF field units IRL were most of the time acting as Partisans (like the CCP New 4th Army). Probably, it’s a myth, that the Nationalist unit, which was to guard Mao’s Yennan Soviet (Nationalist 34th Army under Hu Zongnan in Sian) was the best equipped and trained Nationalist unit. This elite thought (see: Tuchman’s book about Stillwell, p 384) is doubted (Sheng Ch’I, The Military Dimension 1942-1945, in James C. Hsiung and Steven Levine, Chinas Bitter Victory, p. 175: There were other Nationalist anti-Yennan forces, their task was also to monitor the Chinese Muslim armies in Kansu Province, and of course the Japanese). I checked infos about General Hu Zongnan: Absolvent of first class of Nationalist elite Huangpu Military Academy, Guardian of Chiang Kaisheks son Weiguo, Commander of 1st Div, in WW2 of 34th Army and Vice CiC 1st War Zone, in Civil War conqueror of Yennan (March 1947), fled to Taiwan, vainly impeachement because of fatally weakening Middle China for his Northern strategy in the Civil War. (Ci Hai, Bd. 3, p. 3949. Jung Chang, Mao: The unkown story, p. 367-374.) Jung also speculates that from the mid twenties on he was a communist defector. Bottom line We should wait for the play testers’ impressions. Probably it’s all a question of fine-tuning before it comes to fiddling around with game rules. (Remember the warlord units, which also come to play). That said I strongly recommend, before finally launching MWIF, to post an AAR report in this forum: Every player gets his own thread and is forbidden to read all the other threads. All of them describe what they are planning and doing. Plus there’s a meta-thread for everybody for asking questions without giving away players’ internas. Exactly this is done around the corner in the Forge of Freedom forum. It’s enormously popular and is attracting potential buyers. Regards
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