New S42 Campaign!

[Ricky B]

Maybe you guys are thinking about this German pocket all wrong. Why not put huge victory locations outside of the German pocket. That way the russian is more interested in holding territory and keeping his pocket formed with layers. Historically speaking the first month of the pocket was the Russian consolidating there gains and reinforcing there inner and outer rings around the Sixth Army. Best way to have a german pocket is giving the russian no reason to collapse it.

If as Marquo suggested there were victory points per turn for objectives, or something similar, then this would help I am sure. However, it only matters who holds the objectives at the end of the game, and the common tactic in these games is rather than drive for the objectives, you wipe the defender out first and then they can't hold the objectives anyway. So having huge objectives in other areas won't matter, I believe, a Soviet attacker will still concentrate on crushing the pocket, then send everything after the objectives. Now your idea would work if the scenario length was cut significantly, making it a choice of crush the pocket or take the objectives, but there is a scenario like that already and it doesn't have the issue of a quickly collapsing pocket so much.

Rick