Battle for Moscow- AAR

[Currahee]

I should have mentioned....in Battle for Moscow, the Germans' armored equipment gives their units a lot of staying power. On the pivotal turn when Moscow was taken, I had to hold it through the Russian turn to get credit and to invoke all the events, as the German is player #1 in that scenario. At the end of the German turn, I had only one unit in Moscow, the 35th Schuetzen Rgt of the 25th Motorized Division; it had proficiency/readiness/supply of 83/33/1. Furthermore, it was not entrenched, and had only 25 rifle sqds (of 72), and 6 SMG sqds (of 20), etc; but it had some Stugs, and it had all 32 of its halftracks! They are only armored at 1, but against the poor Russian AT assets, they are very hard to evict from the defense. Well, Fabio was not able to evict them, and the next turn, I was able to pour reinforcements into Moscow. The game then began to turn, although my shock continued to worsen for several more turns. There was a bad moment a few turns later when Fabio cut my rail lines to Moscow; but my units there were "unsupplied" for only one turn; I then reestablished a non-rail supply line, and they were "supplied", albeit at a very low supply level; and then within a couple of more turns, rail supply was reestablished. It really was a battle over the supply lines.

So although the German units look pathetic when you just look at their summarized combat power (unit attack and defense factors), they are really more potent because of their armored vehicles. My armored vehicle count actually increased during the game, and they are also more resistant to pestilence (here, frostbite!) because 100% of pestilence-attrited vehicles are eventually returned to the replacement pool (vs 50% of soft assets, such as squads).