Dog Soldier Wrote:Can you tell me if there is some increase in the defense rating of the Russian 76mm AT gun units? My experience was these units could not utilize a field of fire due to the 14 defense rating. Axis HW co's would fire from three hexes and weed out the 76mm AT gun units.
Just as in our 48th Pz Korps scenario we are playing, Russian 76mm AT guns have a defense of 16, not 14.
As Strela said before, the German HW units are about 1/3 (or at least 1/2) the firepower of the stock game. If anyone has played N44_Alt then they have already seen these ratings in effect.
Quote:The Russian tank Bns (9 tanks each) can not combine to form rgts. in the stock game. This results in Russian tank stacks being picked apart by German Bn sized tank units (20-30 tanks each). It appears you are working on a solution to give the Red tanks a fighting chance.
Russian T-34 tank battalions and regiments start out with a maximum cap set at their TOE level so that they can possibly regain some vehicles over time, rather than be forever relegated to 6 vehicles. Of course whether they do regain some vehicles is up to the Russian player and how they are used.
Quote:I can add that I do not have a problem with K44 being a game of an Axis mobile defense. That is what they should have done historically. There is a CG scenario that simulates Hitler's stand fast orders which I was never able to convince any Axis player to play.
Actually, I have already set this too. The Germans *do* start out fixed around the salient with gradual releases as the campaign progresses so that they cannot immediately pull back from turn 1. Also, the objectives are much higher value to influence the Germans to contest them. This part will not be changed and if people do not like it then, well, they don't have to play the scenario (they can play the stock game where nothing is fixed). The intent is to create something at least semi-historical here, and go from a situation where the Russians don't have a chance in Hades to a balanced, at least semi-historical outcome. The Germans have well enough tanks and firepower to get out of a pocket I believe, and not influencing the campaign to the point that a pocket will never form is a waste of a scenario.
Just as no Axis player would elect to play a campaign where they are fixed, it should be equally true that a Russian player never elect to play a campaign where they are not fixed. So there is no way around this other than to forcibly influence the semi-historical and have people try to "do their best" with the cards they are dealt.
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