Slitherine

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If a isolated unit is air suplied, without to have an airport, will be in air supplied-beached mode?

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is this normal ? attacks are now disabled for the rest of the turn

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ORIGINAL: Helpless

Since the automatic night strikes (manual works fine) are broken right now - i.e. all eligible planes participate. You can only choose missions which can run more then once for the group. These groups which didn't log any miles can't fly any kind of strike mission for other reasons, eg. frozen base.

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So basically, if you want to bomb a unit you should always manually select your attacking squadrons.

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ORIGINAL: LittleBen

It's quite amuzing ! I don't say that it's impossible to get 5 000 losses in 1.05, perhaps a better player than me could achieve this in a second! Not the problem. The fact is that I'm the same player, wether I play 1.04 or 1.05, I'm doing the same movement, the same "great" moves or the same "silly" ones ! And in one case I could easily achieve 5000 losses, in the other ones the best I could get is 3000 ! So there's a difference ! Perhaps this is for a good reason, and has a "ground", but don't tell me that the same, as I could easily see that's not the case !

If you prefer, let the AI play the first german turn with 1.04 and with 1.05, and you will see the same difference...quite 1 for 2...

My purpose is not to "claim" about the game or the patch. I love the game, and I'm enjoyed on your work for the future of it, but here, there's something I would just like to understand.

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ORIGINAL: Helpless

Btw, one very important point - there was a scenario data corruption bug in 1.04.xx which was corrupting (increasing) air losses statistic. So in realilty losses could be much different.

I found it on another thread...that's should be my answer...

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ORIGINAL: Industrial

Interesting changes, might have to try these out. Last time I played a game was with patch 1.03, only playing the AI so far.
One thing I noticed back then was how easy it was to stall the Axis AI and counterattack early in 41/42.

I had a look at some of the historical reinforcement figures and compared them with the in game numbers.
Here are some soviet drafting/casualty numbers I've found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties_of_the_Soviet_Union

According to those numbers (29,5 Million man drafted) the game produces roughly those numbers when the soviet player manages to hold on to approx. 3000 manpower resources throughout the war... so, seems plausible.

Here are the numbers for the germans I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Military_Casualties_by_branch_of_service
They had roughly 17 Million ground + Luftwaffe units (+ unknown numbers of Volkssturm + Soviet citizens in German military service), minus the 3,2 Million they start with and the losses from earlier campaigns + troops that fought in other theaters (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II) : 1,5 Million from 1944-45), so, maybe 12-13 Million served at the eastern front all together. To reach these numbers the germans would require 9-10 Million reserves from their manpower pool while the game is only giving them (with an estimated hold of 3800 manpower sources throughout the game) 5,9 Million.

Whats more, the first source I quoted is putting 10 Mio of the drafted 30 Mio soviets into: "Discharged during war-Includes those sent on sick leave, those sent to industry, NKVD or foreign units and 437,000 imprisoned after sentencing", which is an important point to remember. Factories require workers, not every drafted man was send to the frontline, in that sense the soviet reinforcements seems excessive. And the germans? Used roughly 12-15 million slave labor from occupied countries, so most of their drafted numbers did indeed serve in the army. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II)

Maybe the reinforcement numbers could need a little tweaking?

Something else: In my game vs the Axis AI I noticed that the germans at one point had 1 Mio Manpower in their reinforcement pool but couldn't use them (most units were at TOE < 30% at that time). The reason was an empty armament pool. I see that the latest patch is correcting this somewhat, but these numbers ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_War_II)#Industrial_output ) suggest that the german industry should have even greater potential than the soviets, they just weren't using it for an all out war production until late in the war. But, being starved of armaments so that conscripts can't even be armed with sidearms seems a little excessive.

My 0,02 Euro for today

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Here are the numbers for the germans I found: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II_casualties#Military_Casualties_by_branch_of_service
They had roughly 17 Million ground + Luftwaffe units (+ unknown numbers of Volkssturm + Soviet citizens in German military service), minus the 3,2 Million they start with and the losses from earlier campaigns + troops that fought in other theaters (according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Front_(World_War_II) : 1,5 Million from 1944-45), so, maybe 12-13 Million served at the eastern front all together. To reach these numbers the germans would require 9-10 Million reserves from their manpower pool while the game is only giving them (with an estimated hold of 3800 manpower sources throughout the game) 5,9 Million.

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Whats more, the first source I quoted is putting 10 Mio of the drafted 30 Mio soviets into: "Discharged during war-Includes those sent on sick leave, those sent to industry, NKVD or foreign units and 437,000 imprisoned after sentencing", which is an important point to remember. Factories require workers, not every drafted man was send to the frontline, in that sense the soviet reinforcements seems excessive. And the germans? Used roughly 12-15 million slave labor from occupied countries, so most of their drafted numbers did indeed serve in the army. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forced_labour_under_German_rule_during_World_War_II)

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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx

Marty, those numbers are actually grossly in excess of historical losses.

WitE has always exaggerated the effect of the surprise air attack, by a good factor of 2. Not that it matters much...it's just a bunch of obsolete planes.

Funny thing is, even if you skipped the entire surprise air attack, the Red Air Force wouldn't be worth a lot until at least 1942. There's some very nasty stuff coded into it in 1941 that lobotomizes its performance.