N44 Campaign (alt) - Do the germans still need help?

[LBouton]

I'm playing two of volcano's N44 alt campaign games - one as the allies and one as the germans. From both perspectives I feel that the germans still need a little more help and would be interested in hearing other players views on this campaign.

A number of issues pertain to historical accuracy vs. play balance. Here, for example, I'm thinking of air interdiction. The germans need to get troops to the front lines and throw them right into battle. Alas, those troops tend to be clobbered on the way to the front by air interdiction. I recognize that allied air supremacy makes this a historical fact but would suggest that for game play balance it might be toned down a bit.

Second issue concerns the availability of allied "carpet" bombers. Around Caen, the germans need to stack 'em high and stack 'em deep. Carpet bombers (if they hit the hex) will crush the poor germans. Also, carpet bombers can hit germans out of LOS (with air recon). Say good bye to any troops caught in transport mode. So... again for play balance I might say good bye to carpet bombers.

A number of pillboxes and trenches were added to the alt game. They are left unoccupied which really reduces their value. How about a little garrison to keep their value intact?

Perhaps another suggestion would be to move the german reinforcement arrival locations a bit further forward?

Now I recognize that the games I'm playing are still in the very early stages (turn 40), but the VP is around 6000 already in both.

Any other ideas on tweaking the scenario?

Larry