Minor change in bombardment effects in rail capability

gerones · Post by **gerones** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:30 pm

Should we reduce the rail capability of any country but ONLY when the city with rail capability is dropped to 0 PP´s? This is a change that supposes to benefit the germans in late game when they have to rail lots of units to threatened areas and it will favour a little their position in late game. Right now the allied bombings have an excessive effect in german production: in 1944 the german PP´s is reduced is such way that the germans cannot build nothing but garrisons. This does not match with the situation in the real war in which Germany reached max production in 1944. So a way to simulate this would be to reduce rail capability only when a bombed city is dropped to 0 pp´s.

Peter Stauffenberg · Post by **Peter Stauffenberg** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:46 pm

I actually don't agree with this. In the real war the Allies constantly bombarded ther German rail network to prevent units from moving around. This was particularly important during Overlord. Air interdiction was necessary to ensure the invasion force could establish themselves before the German reserve units arrived.

I think the rail system works pretty well at the moment. The Germans have to pay for overuse of the rail network if they wan't to get extra units to the front line. If they send the units there ahead of the invasion they're vulnerable to bombardment.

The Allied strategic bombardment were destroying many German factories and oil plants. The Germans had to spend a lot of PP's to repair these facilities and then they were bombarded again.

I think the production level the Germans have at the end is pretty accurate. The war effort is above 140 and the production should be above 100 even after Overlord and the Russians entering Poland. That's enough to repair losses to land units. The Germans will have to repair losses to the Luftwaffe and armored force instead of building a lot of new ones. The Germans were good at replacing their losses and they can do so in GS too.

What we really should look into is how the German front line crumbles. If they can afford to repair all losses then it will be very hard to breakthe German line. The main reason the Luftwaffe becomes decimated is that the Germans can't afforfd to repair the air losses anymore. I think that's right.

Peter Stauffenberg · Post by **Peter Stauffenberg** » Sun Oct 02, 2011 9:46 pm

If we're going to change anything then it should be because something is broken. So far I can't what needs to be fixed.

rkr1958 · Post by **rkr1958** » Mon Oct 03, 2011 11:18 am

I agree with all that Borger wrote on this. I think allied strategic bombing works well now. That includes it's bombing of oil and especially rail. So I would vote no for any change in this area.