One of the reasons that I'm so big on the Sturmpanzer I's, and why I'm using them exclusively, is how much they change the way that the AI will counterattack. Having 5 Sturmpanzers in my core means that I can wheel them into a trouble spot, and instantly guard the 3-4 hexes in front of them. (..) I...

Ouch! Out of curiosity, what's your core force looking like: how many infantry (and type), tanks, Recon units, etc...? Like you, I rely on suppression fire a lot, unlike you, I only use two Sturmpanzer. Yes, they are more versatile than the 20.15-cm (had three at Stonne), but the added ammo and the...

I just played Stonne for the second time. I half-expected the same thing too, the first time I played it...although once I ran the Panzerjaeger down the left side of the map and didn't find anything, I stopped worrying about it, and marched everything right down the center. I thought troops would c...

a) Which Level? FM or Rommel b) When do you reload or restart? With the old dice rule, I loved to reload to see how I could improve a turn but now I play more forceful. I reload when I do something stupid, like missing that I have activated an air unit instead of the ground troops underneath and so...

The long corridor-like nature of the map + the streets in the north vanishing east and west into the unknown outside the map + the support troops stationed there made me uneasy: I fully expected a counter-attack from the west or east in the north as soon as I would have progressed so far into the so...

(any volunteer present to generate a statistically sound sequence of repeats to verify or falsify that sentiment? ). I think it was in this thread that Rudankort and rezaf discussed just such tests and results. http://www.slitherine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=28199&postdays=0&postorder=asc&a...

So most likely, things will remain as they are in 1.05. But yes, if anyone wants a harder game, something like "Guderian+Rommel+Manstein" will become available in the form of custom difficulty levels. I'll get used to it - and at least one advantage is already apparent for me with the now...

Btw and even though it's off-topic: the fact that the publishers didn't push for the now ever present and more and more crazy copyright protections was well received in my case - and even though I could have easily borrowed the game from a friend of mine, it never occurred to me not to pay you for 1...

Ha, and I was just criticizing the lack of difficulty in another thread. Sometimes, the developers must cry out in despair. Well, it might be true that you get more unfavourable results in combat than you should suffer statistically (any volunteer present to generate a statistically sound sequence o...

I only lament that members, like yourself didn't come before 1.05 manifesting their pro opinion, while this was being debated before update 1.05. It seemed that there were more voices pro random seed than against. Probably we will hear now more voices against random seed than pro. Both groups have ...

@Regin I understand your point. But in this case we're talking about a game, and it seems, everybody has its personal agenda, how the game should be. To fulfil everybody expectations it isn't real. Of course not. And I didn't want to make a big deal out of it but didn't want to ignore the emerging ...

@ Rezaf , I see your point, I really do. The basic problem here is insufficient difficulty, of course. You see, without any "precognition", I simply ignore the occasional unlucky hard hit (which I avoid when I know about it beforehand) and roll forth. And since the AI falls for even the mo...

When I read/understand the rest of the paragraph correctly, you actually hangled back "wasting" attacks of units which would be less impacted by negative results - to me, that's less "tactical gameplay" and more "gaming the system". It's just as much of a cheat than re...

rezaf wrote: The only way to get the "strategic facts" mode you're describing is to play out the turn EXACTLY as before, moving the units in the same order. That's not my experience with the preserved seed. An unfavourable result with the ATs or Stukas didn't necessarily mean an equally b...

There is no problem, so no need to fix it, we agree to disagree on this matter, that is all. Ah, if only there hadn't been a "fix". :wink: I will return to the 1.04 version and reduce my prestige with the cheat code at the start of each scenario, so that I can replay a turn at will withou...

The arguments in favour of the change in 1.05 are not without merits and I perfectly understand why it was done; and, most likely, the majority of players prefers it that way. I am not one of those. I belong to the type of player who likes to use every possible angle to make the optimal move in a gi...