Slitherine

The addition of a hot, saucy Fraulein to help with the briefings is definitely one that I can support! That is quite awesome.

Longasc wrote:
Briefing/Map:

Ah well, Habermann... now I know why Kerensky named the GFM Habermann.
History freaks will shoot Kerensky for taking the Hollywood license by basically making a hot saucy secretary do the briefing for our General.
Also, "Helferinnen der Wehrmacht" usually did other things. She is more like his secretary but she would never give orders to a General.

But that is up to Kerensky and the team to decide and I personally found it quite funny and entertaining, but see above.

Ah well it doesn't help that I just saw Sonya Kraus on TV... http://www.cineastentreff.de/teleschau/ ... _2_024.jpg

Anyways, here is the briefing inspired by the images of Eva Habermann and Sonya Kraus.

http://www.cineastentreff.de/teleschau/ ... _2_024.jpg

lol now THAT is definitely going too far.
We'll see what happens when the texts go through editing though.

For the record, she isn't briefing the General (player) she's just passing along orders. Here's the updated version of the text you posted.

<p><b>August 5th, 1941</b></p>
<p>The Generalfeldmarschall sends his greetings to you, Herr General, but has sent me to inform you that he has been recalled to Berlin and will not be briefing you on your next few assignments. In the meantime, I, as a member of the <i>Helferinnen der Wehrmacht</i>, will be assisting you in your briefings. Shall we begin?</p>
<p>Your instructions are as follows: </p>
<p>Per your request, you have been temporarily transferred to join Army Group South to aid in the eventual capture of the Kiev Pocket. You are advised, at this time, to avoid directly engaging Kiev, as intelligence has reported a buildup of at least 500,000 Soviet troops in the city and surrounding area.</p>
<p>Your task for the next several missions is to slowly encircle, isolate, and ultimately cut off Kiev in order to weaken the Soviet positions to the point that they surrender or are too feeble to threaten our continued advances. For the moment, you are ordered to advance no further South than Zhitomir and Kockeriv, and no further East than Katyuzhanka. This should keep your forces well away from the buildup at Kiev, and your objectives have been marked accordingly.</p>
<p>I wish you luck, Herr General. I look forward to seeing you soon.</p>

monkspider wrote:The addition of a hot, saucy Fraulein to help with the briefings is definitely one that I can support! That is quite awesome.

Panzer Corps needs some females. I don't mean half naked girls fighting on top of tanks of course, but in at least somewhat proper historical content.
And actually, the Russian did have female tank and aircraft crews... that's real history right there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_wom ... rld_War_II

Zhurivka: DV 9/18

Start: 5444 (+1000)
End: 5302
First turn: 3703
Losses: 1 Gebirgsjäger

Summary:
This battle was harder than Zhitomir, mainly due to nasty counter-attacks from all sides. That's the main feature of this scenario and I like it.
In the final turn I lost a Gebirgsjäger holding the city next to Kiev.

While the middle turns were quite intense the counter attacks in the final turns were performed by few units. I think at least the city defenses around Zhurivka and other cities need to be improved, it's to easy to get in their back with tanks and shoot artillery and flak to pieces. The many cities and victory hexes also generate tons of Prestige.

IMO: Better defenses around the final objectives and some extra tanks for the counter-attacks from the South, West and East. Plus somehow this is giving by far too much Prestige.

Longasc wrote: Beware of the fortress at Brest, it packs quite a punch. But the Honey Badger of the Wehrmacht, the StuG IIIB, gives a shit! It is an incredibly useful unit and does exactly what I expect a Sturmgeschütz to do. This stat rework really worked! It also reduced and absorbed the attacks of the KV defending Brest.

I just found this video....
*Warning contains some language and graphic content of actual Honey Badgers*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5 ... r_embedded