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RE: Russian economics - 4/30/2011 2:15:52 PM

hfarrish

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Exactly right - and if you combine that with the current mechanics of using panzers to counterattack (by which you will take an unacceptable loss ratio attacking anything but tank corps), there is zero chance of holding a line late war longer than a few weeks.

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RE: Russian economics - 5/4/2011 1:44:41 PM

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ORIGINAL: Klydon

The issue in your argument is you assume the Russians need to break through someplace and try to pocket Axis forces. The Russians get a pile of artillery together and get a nasty concentration of power in infantry corps, they can simply roll up to the line and drop the hammer. The Germans may kill 8-10K of Russians in that attack (maybe 10% tops of the Russian force), but in turn will absolutely get blasted for 4-5k in casualties and most of their artillery destroyed. That sounds like heavy losses to the Russians, except you just killed off roughly 1/2 a German infantry division in that attack. Do it say 6 times in a turn and you are killing a corps of German infantry a turn and they can't take those types of losses.�

Holy smokes, okay now I understand!

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