Awesome accomplishment! This is pretty much exactly as I intended. You got the historical result, but changing history isn't completely impossible. However, I am working on a new version which should make the later war years somewhat easier. My current plans are:monkspider wrote:Well, I finally finished 1945. I suppose I take some measure of pride in being the only person I have seen post who managed to complete an entire campaign using your mod Herr Deducter. 1945 was not a good year for the Wehrmacht however, while I still managed to use elite replacements a majority of the time in '44, by 1945, it was clear that I could no longer make good my losses. I had to use normal replacements more and more. Moreover, I had more and more units destroyed outright. I tended to use Volksturm/7.5 artillery to fill in the gaps in my core, but they were generally little more than speedbumps for the Russians. One of my greatest victories was getting both of the prototype "mice", but by the start of the Berlin two of my divisions, the 40th Infantry and 9th Panzer were hollow shells of what they once were. The 9th Panzer was pretty much a panzer division with scarcely any remaining panzers (only one panzer unit remained) and my 40th Infantry was pretty much only a division on paper, consisting of 1 infantry unit, an anti-tank gun, and a single artillery. My 1st SS division still remained largely intact and largely managed to avoid the quality dilution that my other units did. My strategy in Berlin was to try to create a strong defensive line that would exhaust the Soviets and then go on the offensive to retake lost ground. This proved too much for my core however, and as my losses mounted, including even some of my most crack units, I had to fallback further and further. By turn 29 I only had maybe 12-15 units left, and decided that further resistance was futile, signing the formal surrender papers with an endscn 2.
Overall, a very satisfying and realistic end to the campaign. This time my core may not have been strong enough to stop the Soviet steamroller but perhaps next time I will prevail. Thanks for your awesome work with this mod Deducter, I look forward to starting another playthrough soon!
GreenReplacementsExp 30 to 50
CamEReplaceCost will be 25 higher than ScnEReplaceCost in 1939-1942 and 15 higher in 1943-1945
This will make it more viable to reach for both normal and elite reinforcements mid-battle in the late war. The choice of whether to reinforce during battle or deployment will now be more interesting, and it shouldn't default to just withdrawing all damaged units off the line and elite reinforcing during deployment. Both of these changes should help keep the player's experience levels higher while still maintaining an extremely high cost for overstrength.
Again, due to the large number of changes in the new version, progress has been much slower than expected.