This is good stuff you have posted....although I'm still messin' around in the sand with Rommel & friends I look forward to the GC. Again....Good Post!

goose_2 wrote:By the way I like the way you lay it out quick, clean, and concise.

I could learn from that.

Agree!

Almost sounds like one of my threads :) Yeah real time is only attractive to the really young as I see it. With the exception of Panther Games, I find it hard to play fast enough to matter in the long run. It's not that I can't think fast, but my arcade days are back where they belong, in the 80s. ...

Add me to this list of RTS detractors, sort of. While I don't like playing them, they do as a whole look more realistic then their turn based cousins. What I don't understand is why game companies don't combine the two. Sid Myers Gettysburg, and the Combat Mission games come to mind. Giving orders,...

:D yes! Back in the days of the 1980s and 1990s when computer gaming just getting popular, slow-play Strategy games were more popular than real time tactical games with aStrategic over-lay. Even Nintendo style game systems produced a number of these. And there was a very popular stategy system of se...

Well...here I am again...Orel...1943....playing at higher level....Prestige level "hoovers" around 3500....was last here about a year ago (2014)....way way more difficult now...Three air aces....but not nuff Prestige to get them all the way up to 13-14 level....have 3 Tigers....same issue....

On third play-round...but first time for Tatsinskaya scenario ...which according to history was a tactical loss for Soviet Armored forces......sent to disrupt the German forces massing to punching a hole through to relieve the 6th Army....However this was basically a suicide mission that did achieve...

CUSTER had better chance than I did in "Storming Stalingrad"....He only lost 1/3 of his battalion...whereas most of my core was got shot to hell (except for my Arty's)..Prestige I had hoarded went fast as we adsorbed hoards of those Russkie Dudes pounding the crap outta my folks.....I'm to...

well...here we go again....staggering into Stalin-whatever....Storming?..that's a misnomer.. .as we move on to the next scenario....this game is VERY challenging...very much like chess....although in chess there is NO fog of war.....can't see how some dude's have so many Prestige Points...at one poi...

Am still fairly new to PC..don't get to this nearly as often as I would like. ya'all yappin' 'bout this new KV-5 is well....frankly.... scaring the crap outta me.....'twas enuff to deal with the updated T34's, Guards Units, other KV's and miscellaneous Russian riffraff...but now this?...so...just te...

well.....here I be...staggering into Simferopol of 1942.....Kharkov42 was a dogfight....I had thought the Soviet Air and Armored forces would be more numerous....through sheer stoopidity I lost an SE tank unit during a flanking move...left it exposed to a small horde of enemy infantry...'twas sad wa...

I am berry berry rusty.....loss's now include several core units..one being a SE....Have just started the 1941 Demyansk Pocket....it's been a struggle....Tho the Germans have interior lines....The sheer number of Soviet grounds forces is at times a scramble for me when I need to plug a gap or two......

For Allied Corps too?

Getting ready for deployment now for the Maginot Line scenario.....

I find your analysis of the AAR's very helpful and insightful ...what would be also cool if the AAR's would show in detail your initial deployment of forces. This game is an absolute blast.
HMSHood

I brought in 4 fighters for this one.......the "88" was extremely effective...against ...well...almost anything....nice balance for this scenario
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been gone for awhile...returned to work after retiring several years ago.....going to start GC again at higher level & c what happens....

Dark days ahead?..Hell...almost all of 1944 was dark days...So here I go limping into 1945 with whats left of my core...yes I have a couple of Tiger II's...3 Tigers I's some rather quick Panthers and some older captured crap...and yes I have Heroes & Medals galore....but not nearly enuff prestig...

IF one can survive the initial wave of Russian forces you have a chance. BUT good grief...that onslaught...if was massive and unrelenting. I used two battle-groups of Panthers & artys with INF support to take care of the Rumanians. Everything else was up front except one small "firefighting...

I didn't like playing this scenario..for the reason's stated above. Tactically it was not nearly as difficult as others. When one play's it's easy to see or imagine the folks that lived in the City having a hard time fending off the veteran troops of the German Army. Every turn one plays one wonders...