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Playing AK at General level, won required six VP's for marginal victory (at: Surat, New Delhi, Benares, Nagpur, Bhilai and Bangladesh) but end result is "Axis surrender" on final turn .
Is capture of Main Headquarters also required for MV?

46 views and no one can help me out? please...

I can't yet ptje63. I am still fumbling my way through the GC. I should probably try AK during my next break.

ptje63 wrote:Playing AK at General level, won required six VP's for marginal victory (at: Surat, New Delhi, Benares, Nagpur, Bhilai and Bangladesh) but end result is "Axis surrender" on final turn .
Is capture of Main Headquarters also required for MV?

Frankly I don't remember. I went for decisive victory. The briefing seems a bit missleading. It seems to indicate 10 objectives = marginal, 10 objectives + HQ = decisive. But the marginal victory statement says 6 VP required.
So I'm really not sure. I would tell you but when I played it I achieved DV... I never tried going for a MV on this one.

Ok, played it for first time and got a panzer-beating in the jungle, so went for MV instead of all-out kamikaze DV-attempt. Will try again!

Looking over the map now, I am wondering if the splash screen has the wrong MV requirements.

Looking at the map, 6 for an MV sounds pretty basic compared to most PC scenario requirements for a map like that. And especially a "crescendo" end of DLC/final scenario. I am thinking it is really 10 and it was not corrected in beta testing. This is my guess. I was a player in the beta testing for this and don't recall the issue coming up/being tested.

Doing a little more digging: I just looked at the beta log, and at my saved old Word notes from 2012/2013. Don't see any discussion of this.

In fact, looking back also at the beta forum, it looks like not many testers got this far or played the scenario much. I got a DV on the 1st try and we (Uran21) focused on a lot of map/geography errors and terrain tile errors since the scenario went off OK. So maybe the MV requirements are indeed different and it was not caught.

Can't that be looked up in the scenario editor somehow?

KeldorKatarn wrote:Can't that be looked up in the scenario editor somehow?

I just did, and ptj63, sorry I am a bit slow, because it seems there is an error in this scenario.

For an MV, the editor states that more than 6 VH need to be in your possession on the final turn. So it seems you actually need to have 7. Oops.

Ah well - patience pays off I guess... who would have thought an error would have surfaced this late, gone unnoticed...
I was close then, will start again, 2nd try...
Thanks!

Use strategic bombers to defeat the British navy, and deplete their super tanks. I like to use about four of them for this.

Conserve your own navy and use it to support your ground forces advance along the coast, and a major victory is not that hard.

Had a relative easy DV - but I guess there is only one first time in which a scenario is played most real. Each consecutive time more surprises are gone...

Does anyone know if there is a thread where other ending of Afrika Korps is discussed (Germans turning north heading to Kaukasus)?