Mius Historical Campaign

[Philippe]

Have been playing the Mius Historical Campaign in a pbem as the Germans and have started wondering if it's balanced for HTH play.

The campaign game is 66 turns long and the map isn't really big enough to trade space for time. And 66 turns is a lot of time. To make matters worse (or maybe to simulate a stand-fast order?) almost all of the victory locations are near the front line: if you try to roll with the punch the Soviets will win on victory location points, and he's so much stronger it's hard to imagine mounting an effective counter-offensive, even after the panzer and panzer grenadier divisions come into play.

I'm a third of the way through the campaign and suffering horrendous losses. Every time I manage to contain a break-in, the Soviets start coming through somewhere else. I've started to launch an armored counter-attack, but I'm not holding my breath. And I don't seem to have any schwere panzer abteilungen in my reinforcement roster.

The short scenarios seem very nice for solo play, and maybe even for HTH. Was the Mius Campaign added as an afterthought, or am I doing something dramatically wrong? Or maybe that's why there's a hypothetical scenario with a very early arrival of SS units.

A scenario where the defender gets beat up and ground into powder can be interesting, but the defender needs a chance to win some kind of relative victory. As it is, I'm having trouble seeing how the defender could get a weak draw, because when this gets to turn thirty or so I would expect the defender to simply collapse.