Offense or Defense

[Mike Bowen]

Attacking is more fun in a general sort of way but I think to be really good at Pz Camp you need to know how to defend, that shows a truly good player IMHO. Having said that learning to defend can be fun and as mentioned springing the odd counter attack can be very rewarding.

I also think learning to pace a big game is very important. You have 200 odd turns for a reason you need to rest regroup. You may not win quickly but you can loose quickly.

Just played Smolensk and the joy I got from destroying a GD bat was almost as good as winning a hard fought game, if defending when you are getting kicked all over the map as your historical ego did these little victories are what keep me going.

However attacking against a position where you take a 10:1 loss ratio is not fun and I have just spent 50 odd turns craking my head open and racking up VP for Foul in a game of Salerno. Once he was dug in there was little to do and I found that quite depressing.

Also the tactic of choice to surround disrupt and destroy is perhaps not right in historical terms. Isolated units could keep going for ages Arnhem for example and I think an option so that isolated morale effects took a while to kick in based on the morale of the unit would be interesting.

Sometimes blocking a river 10s of miles away has an instant impact and that seems wrong.

Sorry I wandered off the point a bit. The main thing is normally attacking or defending is good fun which is why the games are so excellent.

Mike