Yogol
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Thanks a lot for this AAR! It sets a very nice benchmark for my campaigns! I like how you do the pockets so well. Punch a hole, drive tanks to it, kill them all off. You make it look easy, but I know it's not, lol. I do have two questions, if you don't mind. 1/ I see in your save-game that you build several depots along the railroads, like we all do. But you set several of them at priority 4, not just the one next to the front. Why is that? I only set the one next to the front on 4, the next on 3, the next on 2 and all the others at 0. So, with me, it would be something like 0 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 0 > 2 > 3 > 4 With you, it's more like 0 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 3 > 3 > 4 > 4 > 4 > 4 2/ You do not seem to move units around in your command structure. Why is that? - For example, there are several units with non-matching types & command points. Take the XIII corps, led by Freissner. He has an Infantry rating of 8, but he doesn't commands any regular infantry, only Mechanised for which he only has a rating of 6. On the other hand, the XXXVII has several infantry divisions and is led by Lemelsen. He who also has a mechanised of 6 but an infantry of 6. So, if both troops are switched and Freissner leads the mechanised and Lemelsen leads the infantry, the infantry units would have the same command quality (6), but the mechanised units would now have a command quality of 8 instead of 6. That means that they would lose only half the rolls that they now lose (20% instead of 40%) on corps level. - Another example are the infantry divisions that report directly to the OKH, instead of following the typical division > corps > army > army group > OKH structure. They will lose about 30% of their rolls (Kluge has an infantry rating of 70%), which is a lot more than in a typical setup. - There are also a lot of unspent APs (241 in turn 98) that are not used to replace bad leaders with better ones (such as Konrad or Stemmerman, who both have an infantry rating of 7 or even Rommel which has a mechanised of 8 and an infantry rating of 8). You are doing very well against the AI, so maybe it doesn't matter as much as I thought, but you seem to lose a lot of command quality overall and I wondered why you do it like that.
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