doktorbole wrote: ↑Mon May 22, 2023 11:53 am
Hello everyone,
I would like to hear opinions from people who have played and completed Typhoon scenario. What is the best approach to win this scenario from your experience? The way I see it, there are basically two options.
First one is to go straight forward and slowly push through mine fields and obstacles. This will probably take high casualties as Luftwaffe can't silence the Soviet heavy artillery because of the bad weather. Best place to attack would be in my opinion between Mozhaysk in the north and Kaluga in the south, big problem is that this is a narrow front, your forces will be channeled and not able to fully develop as they ideally should.
Second one is to go around the obstacles and hit Soviets in the back. One pincer going north east and then swinging back at Ribinsk. Other pincer coming from the south east after taking Voronezh. I think that this approach reduces casualties but troops have to cover a long distance in a bad weather, so it would be time consuming.
Possible third option would be combination of the first two options mentioned.
What is your take on this, what worked for you?
This one was one of the most difficult Panzer Corps scenarios I played. I managed to get a Decisive Victory mainly due to the massive stocks of PP I saved from my earlier successes, they were all almost depleted.
Initially I thought I would surround and take Moscow from the rear, to help myself with that I used my sizeable core force of paratroopers and dropped them east of Moscow in an attempt at securing the ground for my land troops. I realized I committed a mistake when the Siberian units (we're talking of 25 units of ski infantry and 9 tank units) arrived and wiped out my entire force.
At that point I kept pressing from three different directions to divert the enemy around the front. I managed to reach the inner ring of defences with my western approach, supported by the one on the south/south-west; my north-western approach was stalled but I nonetheless kept moving and attacking to tie down enemy forces in that area.
On January 12 (turn 35/36), the grenadiers of the Gross Deutschland Division enter Moscow and plant the Reich's flag on the red bastions of the Kremlin.
I was expecting it to be the end of the war in the east but the game instead continued to the Spring of 1942 with Kharkov and Case Blue. I'd like to know from the dev whether this is intended to continue or if the game is supposed to be over but you didn't complete the branching yet. At the end of that scenario I got a debriefing with just the words [Final briefing text to be added later].
Also does v.2.00 require to start over a new game? I assume it does, right? What major changes took place?