Platoon ZOC rule

[Dog Soldier]

I think the real point to the new K44 rule was to prevent entire Russian divisions from being surrounded and isolated by those small German HT and flak units present in K44. The tactic allowed German players to place such small units a hex away from the front line and paralyze much larger Russian units from assaulting and breaking out. As a Russian player you had to hope artillery or air strikes (when available) would blast the small enemy unit out of the hex and restore some mobility to your front line troops. Problem was that you might kill two out of three German vehicles and the ZOC still held your battalions in place for destruction the next turn.

Holding back the Russian tanks to deal with this threat in the mid game turns of the CG could counter the threat. It seemed to me a waste of the armored corps to do this duty. There are just too few mobile Russian units in the K44 CG.J ust the threat of a German panzer division counter attacking could stop the Russian player as he would have to deploy in depth and lose concentration of force or risk this type of tactic with the small, fast German vehicle units.

Dog Soldier