What's a Greenhorn General to do?

[Skryabin]

WOW, I can't imagine playing total blind a full campigne!

In CS, yes I find it challenging especially when your opponent is playing blind too (unfamiliar scenario for both sides). Because those are more like tactical battles.

But here on this operational level first of all it seems totally unrealistic. In historical situation in most cases commanders were familiar with most of the enemy dispositions and created their plans based on that knowledge. I may be wrong as a beginner, but it seems to me that all this game is about realisation of such strategic plan which was built from very beginning.

How much detail you want to know is another question. All the beauty to me is to see if your plan works. And how can you possibly even build your strategic plan without knowing enemy as far as lets say on divisional level: how many divisions, were are they?

In my opinion it is enough reconnaissance during the game itself, because after a few turns all rear dispositions may change.

Am I wrong?

Skryabin