Adjusted S42 Alt Campaign - v1 - von Nev

[von Nev]

Thanks for the feedback so far. Keep it coming. I have already made some changes to the campaign I posted based on the feedback.

I am fixing the German infantry divisions that I listed and moving both the 24th PzD and the 16th PzD to fixed status for 1/2 the day on Nov 19th. Both of these changes will help slow down or reduce the effectiveness of the "Southern Gambit."

Additionally, to improve the pace that the Russians can break through the Romanian defenses on both the southern and northern attacks I have changed most of the Romanian defenses to trenches instead of bunkers. Bunkers remain although in forests and in villages but the bulk of the Romanian defensive lines is trenches in the open. I did this because play testing about 10 turns of the northern attack last night I found that the pace of the Russian breakthrough was too slow. This gave the German commander time to rush the 22nd PzD and the Romanian 1st Armored Division north with enough time to actually contain the breakthrough. Down south the breakthrough was also a little slower than I liked and gave the Germans the opportunity to pull infantry divisions and the two Panzer divisions out of the front lines in Stalingrad itself to reinforce the southern front.

I thought long and hard about just changing the Victory Point levels to solve this issue, but changing the VP levels never really addressed the fact that by 140 turns into the game the German pocket was eliminated. I am still looking at the VP's to make sure it makes sense with all my changes.

Regarding the question on the Luftwaffe, the hard attack numbers may seem high but the effect in game play is rather limited. In testing (and I have tested this about 25 times) I found that on average a Stuka strike of 10 Stukas with a hard attack of 50 destroyed 1 to 2 tanks in a 20 vehicle T-34 company and destroyed 3 to 4 when the 20 vehicle company was in travel mode. That doesn't seem high to me. What I was finding testing at the stock hard attack values of 16 that about 85% of the time the result was "fatigue" or "no effect."