Hanny
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ORIGINAL: jwolf Is there, or will there be, the possibility of allowing minor or small random variation in the initial deployments? The goal would be to try to minimize efforts at perfect plan opening moves which are based on unrealistically perfect intelligence of the defenders' position and strength. I agree this would be very nice. As things are now, It makes T 1 almost redundant. Simply a few small changes in the initial deplyment of both axis and SU would make things more unpredictable and interesting. What might be interesting, is to have a larger random of TOE for the SU initial set up, by 1 June c75-85% of TOE was achieved for front line formations, while c50% for the second echelon arising from the 950k call up in the last 2 months of reservists, and the time spent in transit to bring up existing strengths, and create new units etc. So by havinga larger random number for SU initial strength you can find the SU either at historical levels, (May 179 Rifle Divs and 21 more added in June) given above, or higher/lower mobilisations levels for both increasing first echelon strength and the number of formations raised, ie a quicker mobilisation level according to the MP41 plan. I think that would simply give the germans more men to bag in some games. In T 1 there is nothing the soviet player can do about it. The first turn is all about bagging, so I think changing where some units are placed, especially if they are strong units, could be a nasty surprise. In some instances thats correct, in others, the opposite. T1 is out of the SU players hands, but having a larger random mobilisation level means the SU formations will be at a larger range of TOE, some games more than the historic level and other games less than that level, had more arrived quicker during mobilisation, or the 39 TOE remained in use, then more can be bagged easier, however if more are at 41 TOE and slower arriving at formations, then the T1 formations could be vastly under TOE and instead of being bagged, remain in being to be used by the SU, increasing instead the next number of formations, in the next echelon of raised formations from these unused assets. Ie a faster mobilisation of the millions of trained reservist acording to the 41 MP.
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