Top ten things I have learned.

[Dan Caviness]

I would mention that the VP values reflect the higher quality of German armored equipment and as such should help to counterbalance their greater effectiveness when calculating victory totals. Not saying it does, but nodding to the designers intent to find a way to balance that effectiveness.

Historically, (please forgive me Larry), even battles such as Kursk could be viewed as local or tactical German victories simply due to the greater number of Russians killed, destroyed, and captured. Especially in light of recent declassified documentation of how many Russian casualties were incurred.

Still, Kursk cost the Wermacht the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war, and they never went on the offensive again.
A strategic disaster.

When you consider their delay of Kursk, knowing full well the depth of defenses the Russians were constructing for several months while they built up and delivered Panthers and massed Tigers to the battle, it would seem the Germans themselves were just as convinced as the CS designers that quality would tell...lol...

In the end though the Wermacht was in no position to replace those losses, the Red Army was.

I think it's difficult to capture this in a game scale like the CS series, and as stated above, it does make for more enjoyable and playable scenarios.

Hey...my two centz worth only...

Regards,

Dan