janh
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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx The weather gods are a fickle bunch. Over the course of a full game it's by no means clear that weather favors the Soviets. If you think the blizzard is still too strong -- I'm doubting this, but let's go with it -- then random weather can toss in a few snow turns and reign in the Soviet counteroffensive. The random weather really makes things much more interesting, and less predictive, which means also means it gives the game a much more realistic feel. So far I would agree it doesn't give either side any significant favor, though. A snow turn during December 41 can easily disturb the Soviets more than a mud turn the Germans in their 41 summer offensive, though, as time is much more scarce for that lot. However, it appears also rarer, so it probably evens out. But we all like to keep our myths alive, like then one about random weather. Regarding blizzard, I have recently caught myself thinking the same. With the recent patches, it appears more manageable from the German side. Not a heavy crush as back at the time when BigAnorak wrote his guide. On the other hand, we now see pretty much every German PBEM player do the Sir Robin. Not matter how much it is despised for a Soviet player during summer, also for the Germans it still seems to be better than to have a Hitler forcing you to take the beating. Both side rather use hindsight to pick the fights they can win, and withdraw from the ones already lost before started. It has little to do with what happened back then, but that is ok as it seems fair for both sides. Nonetheless, I guess it would be more interesting if (a) the CV modifiers weren't as brutal so the Germans would stand a better chance for fighting forward (though still face a disadvantage), (b) pockets in both sides could be sustained easier and longer. I miss the aspects like the Demyansk pockets, for example -- that would be spice to the blizzard part, or later in war. It can not be recreated, even with an airbase inside, much as the Soviet pockets melt too easily and allow for an increased op-tempo in the summers. The CV melt too quickly it would seem. On a side note: During summer 41, when counterattacking with numerically superior the Soviets, and doing so even with morale 30-35 infantry divisions and anything else you can lay hands on, do you also often get results that basically wipe out some 1->4k Soviets, perhaps a couple dozen to a hundred tanks in case you brought some, yet many times the Germans even get out with 0/0/0 losses? Is that just FoW? I have tried to find some way to attrit the Germans with relentless forward fighting, but I find that the engine results for engagements with strong disparities in morale seem to give very poor losses for the highly experienced side, maybe too small losses to recreate the attrition?
< Message edited by janh -- 9/5/2012 1:37:53 PM >
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