Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42?

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

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> Time of Fury >> Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? Page: [1]
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? - 2/28/2012 7:22:36 PM   
ItBurns

 

Posts: 85
Joined: 1/3/2009
Status: offline 		I'm playing the grand campaign as the Axis and started Barbarossa in late April of 41. Captured Moscow, got to the edge of Leningrad and winter came along with literal hoards of Soviet armies. They're like the hydra, for everyone I kill 2 rise to take its place so finally I switch the USSR over to manual to take a look.

Up and down the line the Russians are 3-6 armies thick with litteral streams of new units walking toward the front and a production que stocked full of even more troops. The USSR war economy is at 243.

Is this normal? I was expecting at least another summer on the offense to sort of echo the historical war but I'm hard put to just hold my gains right now. Is the rest of the game with Russia going to be like this?
Post #: 1
RE: Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? - 2/28/2012 7:40:00 PM   
gwgardner

 

Posts: 6722
Joined: 4/7/2006
Status: offline 		It's my opinion that the Soviets have way too many PPs, and the Germans too. But the Soviets are indeed worse.

I am currently playing a game in which both the Germans and Soviets are set to hard, which reduces their PPs by 25%. Will continue to report on how it looks as the game progresses.

Are you playing the 1.1 beta patch or the original 1.0. In the beta, each country is supposed to reach a limit on number of infantry units, at which point they get a big upkeep hit.

All these production rates and upkeep costs and penalties are moddable.

(in reply to ItBurns)
Post #: 2
RE: Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? - 2/28/2012 9:00:18 PM   
ItBurns

 

Posts: 85
Joined: 1/3/2009
Status: offline 		I'm playing the original 1.0, does 1.1 help with this issue?

(in reply to gwgardner)
Post #: 3
RE: Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? - 2/28/2012 9:14:41 PM   
doomtrader


Posts: 5321
Joined: 7/22/2008
From: Poland
Status: offline 		Looks like you are in the opposite situation to the people claiming that the game as Germany is too easy.

_____________________________


(in reply to ItBurns)
Post #: 4
RE: Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? - 2/28/2012 9:41:49 PM   
ItBurns

 

Posts: 85
Joined: 1/3/2009
Status: offline 		Well its my first time through and maybe I bought too many Sub's and fighters and not enough infantry.

(in reply to doomtrader)
Post #: 5
RE: Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? - 2/29/2012 6:58:14 AM   
LiquidSky


Posts: 2811
Joined: 6/24/2008
Status: offline

The Russians do have too many PP's. They reach a point where you cannot kill them faster then they are killing you. And they attrit you by causing damage faster then you can repair in russia.

A solution is to play them on hard German, hard Russian...and they are still tough. Trouble is you reach a point where you cannot advance as a line, although you can still take on any hex with air/panzer corps.

That first winter, the germans lose a lot of AP's which makes it hard to attrit the Russians to keep them down....I am awaiting the patch so I can try a few experiments with the combat tables (removing the Russian efficency penalty in early Barbarossa and replacing it with combat tables that change for the Germans and the Russians over the coarse of the war)



_____________________________

“My logisticians are a humorless lot … they know if my campaign fails, they are the first ones I will slay.” – Alexander the Great

(in reply to ItBurns)
Post #: 6
Page:   [1]
All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> Time of Fury >> Massive Soviet Armies in Jan 42? Page: [1]
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

0.922