Bulge Ruminations

[Marquo]

HirooOnoda,

When you write, "Let's face it, very few players patrol in these games. A little bit of agressive patrolling and the gambit fails," you elegantly prove my point about HPS historical perspective and adaptability. The patrol feature came out many years after B'44 was released. Even it can't save the 99th and 2nd IDs, because too many of these units are fixed in place.

I am on move 25 of a stock CG against an Axis opponent who has learned how to play the "game" very well. Not only did he do the 12ss end run, he also sent Lehr to the south where he tried to annhilate all the southern shoulder forces. He is trying to win by simply killing a maximum number of my units for vps; this is a valid way of playing but very "antidoctrinal;" and I for one have no problem with players creating their own doctrines. :)

:chin: He has gone so far as to send engineering units 2/3 up the southern side of the map to blow bridges to impede the arrival the much later arrival of Allied southern reinforcements. This is where I start having issues with playability. Why should one player be able to use historical aftersight and knowledge of the exact time and place of reinforcements, while his opponent is condemned to be scripted to historical facts with no ability to react to something as contrived as the death ride of engineers to blow the exact bridges that reinforcements are going to use 3 or 4 days later? In "reality" and in a really good tense "game," this could/would not happen. :soap:

Marquo