Taking Leningrad from the North?

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

Taking Leningrad from the North?

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [New Releases from Matrix Games] >> Gary Grigsby's War in the East Series >> Tech Support >> Taking Leningrad from the North?

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Taking Leningrad from the North? - 4/5/2011 3:07:27 AM

Choles1

Posts: 52
Joined: 8/10/2004
Status: offline

Finnish unit take Leningrad? After an attack on a Soviet unit in front of the no-attack line (Soviet unit retreated), the Finnish units pursued the Soviet unit and attacked it on the no-attack line. The Soviet unit dissolved and the Finnish unit was able to then take Leningrad? Why was that possible?

_____________________________

Post #: 1

RE: Taking Leningrad from the North? - 4/5/2011 4:40:22 AM

larryfulkerson

Posts: 39932
Joined: 4/17/2005
From: Tucson, AZ
Status: offline

Was this Axis AI vs Soviet AI, or Axis AI vs you, or PBEM or .....????

_____________________________

If we're all created in the image of god then why aren't we all invisible?

(in reply to Choles1)

Post #: 2

RE: Taking Leningrad from the North? - 4/5/2011 6:35:31 AM

Aussiematto

Posts: 344
Joined: 2/13/2011
From: Australia
Status: offline

The no-attack line is NOT a no-move line. Therefore, if you don't need to attack, you can move. It's why the Soviet player has to garrison the line (and I am sure this is the intent). The AI builds a row of fortified regions to keep the Finns at bay (since it has huge numbers of APs I believe it is a no brainer).

Personally, I think the whole no-move / no-attack line issue could be rethought. Nothing urgent, of course, but it leads to rather peculiar game play at times. Example - my current (brilliantly successful) Russian opponent has butchered me in the blizzard. He basically put no troops at all anywhere on the Finn no-move line (i'd taken Cheropovets with them so was as far east as I could be). This also allowed him a hanging flank as he terrorised 16th Army all the way back to Novgorod. OTOH, if you tinker with it, Leningrad even more obviously the key target in the 1st year. Better to have penalties rather than magic lines (ditto on the frozen Rumanians who wont move when Constanza is taken!). I'd use the AP system -- if condition a, then x points allows Finns to be activated; if b, then y points -- that kind of thing.

But, to be honest, it's still realistic at a strategic level, just not so much operationally.

_____________________________

I still remember cardboard!

(in reply to larryfulkerson)

Post #: 3