Flaviusx
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Baron von Beer, if you want to know what happens if the Soviets attack first, see my posts uptopic regarding Fire in the East and the Icebreaker scenario. Same result here. It's boring and stupid. Simply by avoiding the surprise turn the Soviets win from the getgo and the conflict turns into a grinding war of attrition. They won't go anywhere, of course, and the Germans may even push them back some, but it's pretty much over as soon as it starts. Even as a self professed Red Army fan boy, there's nothing interesting about this. (The Nazi fanboys, of course, never even consider such scenarios. They're only looking at making things easier on the Wehrmacht, which is equally boring and problematic.) And, of course, the game's entire mechanics cannot support it: it truly is fantasy in that sense. For example, the entire order of battle and reinforcement is premised on a strategic situation where the Red Army has to radically reorganize and simplify itself in the face of huge German gains, before then building up more complex military units later on in the war. Your whole order of battle becomes as rotten as Denmark and quite divorced from the strategic situation. Then there's the entire first winter rules which would hardly seem to apply again a German player who may not even get so far as the Dnepr. Even if the developers provided you with an open ended game editor to support such things, nothing good would come from it. The end results would lack the integrity of the historical and original design and play very strangely indeed. You could make up anything you want but at the same time fatally compromise the integrity of the game and lack all the loving detail and research that went into it. This is not a grand strategy game. I wish people stopped trying to turn it into one, it won't work for that any more than its boardgame predecessors did. Edit: also, what is the effect of all this on Lend Lease? On US entry? (And, for that matter, US strategy after entering.) On neutrals? On the war in Africa? Etc. Nobody really knows nor is the game equipped to make adjustments for such things.
< Message edited by Flaviusx -- 8/19/2010 3:57:20 PM >
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