faos333 wrote: ↑Tue Jan 09, 2024 9:39 pm
Have you played the Normandy/Bagration save? and with what result?
Sure, sure, many times.

Maybe you know my single player play style, which is with tons of reloads (+ dice chess - this can be implemented even in the saves with the "dice chess" cheat), so probably it is much easier. I played also a few times with manual double Rommel (always calculated the 50% prestige loss/gain and with cheat I corrected it) - but that is really-really frustrating. On the other hand, playing with 100% prestige it can gives the player some chance to get smaller victories. But the overwhelming Allied air power is surely a cause of lot of swearing.

The Western Allies cannot be stopped, nor fully destroyed, but contained. This is important to use the V1's, V2's to gain the really needed extra prestige. OK, the Dragoon/Anvil forces can be eliminated and if you focus fully on Italy than probably you can win back also South Italy - but than you will suffer in the East... So, nice variety here.
On the east, my experience is if we can really fast send reinforcements to Army Group Middle and hold the ground than we can stop the Soviets. It is a hard time in winter without the rivers but after that it is possible to move again to the eastern direction. The other extreme important point is to not let the Soviets near to Romania. Look for the editor. If there are more than two armor units west of a given river, Romania turns side, you loose your last oil source and anyway you will be in big trouble... You can play it so, that you station a lot of units in Romania, let the enemy make his move and initiate the side switching process - than you capture everything back in the next turn, you gain extra prestige with the recaptured Romanian cities plus you get a lot of Hungarian units. But my experience was that those German units were needed more elsewhere.
I could reach Moscow and also very far south. So I could make a decent peace, giving back the Soviet capital, but holding other territories.
OK, I will look for my Normandy saves and send to you in few days.