Moscow '42 Released

[ComradeP]

Thanks for the welcome, Compass Rose.

raizer: Thanks for the insight in how/why the things I referred to happened, for starters.

I understand that operational decisions sealed the fate of the units, but I'm mostly wondering about overall losses from combat .

In Kharkov '43, the Soviets don't have anything near the kind of "room" for losses that they have in Moscow '42 presumably, but even if you would suffer just, say, a couple of percentage points of strength per day, it will mean that after a month or so you're running around with shells, whilst German units (though also low strength) can still occupy good defensive terrain and still have that advantage in quality over you. The Soviet player, on the other hand, lacks strong mobile units like Tank/Mechanized corps and will need to slowly outflank German positions/make defensive positions untenable to achieve a slow and methodical breakthrough if there's little to no "punch" left. If your crucial exploitation units, cavalry and ski units, become more or less platoon to company strength in a matter of days, that could be a problem.

Judging by my previous experience with wargames, balancing losses with replacement rates for longer scenarios can be very challenging as for lower quality units there seems to be a substantial risk of running them into the ground (which is what happened often enough to the Soviets, of course, but it tends to happen more quickly in many of the wargames I've played thus far).