Slitherine

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ORIGINAL: BillRunacre

It's not possible to have the terrain type amended by event, which means if they were made marshes in the game they would always be so, e.g. in 1940 when the Germans are advancing west, as well as later on when the Germans may well be retiring to the east.

So it will have to be up to the German army to slow the Allied advance. Though perhaps a good use of Engineers is the answer here?

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

The issue with Marshes is that they expose the troops to heavier air combat losses. Air combat losses are already quite substantial and a main reason I was able to break down the entrenched forces in the Netherlands with the American air force near London, especially when attacking the capital. I think I may actually try how things will play out without the ground attack aircraft bonus attack value in marshes in my next version, it would certainly make the battle of Leningrad more interesting, that is one place that comes to mind. I also think that I'm going to tinker with Anti-Aircraft units to make them a bit stronger.

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ORIGINAL: FOARP

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

The issue with Marshes is that they expose the troops to heavier air combat losses. Air combat losses are already quite substantial and a main reason I was able to break down the entrenched forces in the Netherlands with the American air force near London, especially when attacking the capital. I think I may actually try how things will play out without the ground attack aircraft bonus attack value in marshes in my next version, it would certainly make the battle of Leningrad more interesting, that is one place that comes to mind. I also think that I'm going to tinker with Anti-Aircraft units to make them a bit stronger.

Marsh terrain giving a BONUS to air-attack is rather counter-intuitive. You'd assume that, if anything, it would give a malus.

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

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ORIGINAL: FOARP

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ORIGINAL: crispy131313

The issue with Marshes is that they expose the troops to heavier air combat losses. Air combat losses are already quite substantial and a main reason I was able to break down the entrenched forces in the Netherlands with the American air force near London, especially when attacking the capital. I think I may actually try how things will play out without the ground attack aircraft bonus attack value in marshes in my next version, it would certainly make the battle of Leningrad more interesting, that is one place that comes to mind. I also think that I'm going to tinker with Anti-Aircraft units to make them a bit stronger.

Marsh terrain giving a BONUS to air-attack is rather counter-intuitive. You'd assume that, if anything, it would give a malus.

I agree, but not sure if it should be any more defensive bonus than clear terrain. I've tweaked the defensive bonus of marshes and set the Artillery/Bomber defense penalty to 0 in my next version. Marshes were the only category with a defensive penalty and I have never been a fan of it as the units were always just bombed to smithereens from bombers which already would have done a lot of damage even without the defensive penalty.