PC: Progressively Stronger German Inf AT?

[alaric99x]

Historically the Soviet Union won the war on the eastern front primarily because of immense reserves in manpower. Secondarily because of the material aid from the west in terms of machinery, raw materials and weapons. A few examples would be that 50% of the aluminum used by USSR industry to produce airplanes came from the west, all railroad engines and carts came from the west as did a huge portion of the foodstuff consumed by the Red Army. Allowing soviet factories to produce weapons and tanks exclusively. About 100.000 trucks were provided the Red Army from the western allies, mainly USA. Without that help the Red Army would not have seen the widespread motorization it enjoyed in '44.

The fact of the matter is that german weapons quality, level of training and experience of the troops were superior to that of the Red Army. Many games use 'morale' as a way of representing not only morale but the training and experience level of the unit, i e how much pressure that unit can withstand before routing. Red Army infantry were generally poorly equipped compared to their german counterparts in terms of firearms and personal equipment. Wehrmacht soldiers enjoyed a clear advantage in training and experience werever they fought. Especially against the Red Army whose training was simple combat. Inexperienced troops were sent into combat and those who lived learned a lesson or two about how to do things and more importantly perhaps, how not to do things. The german superiority in weapons, training, morale (unit cohesion) and doctrines were offset by the sheer number of soldiers the Red Army fielded, and reserves brought to the front. With extremely heavy casualties as a result.

This is all just historically speaking, I've not played the games enough to know if it's modeled correctly in the game. Bought the games a couple weeks ago.

I generally agree with your evaluation of the historical facts and I think the games model this very well.