Moscow '42 Released

[Aditia Holdem]

Hi ComradeP,

I remember you from the WitE forums over at Matrix. Welcome here! ))

I have been playing PzC on and off for the better part of 10 years now, and just came back to the game after 2 years absence. Together with CMBB/CMAK it became my exclusive wargaming platform. It is just the most elegant scale/ruleset for wargamers I have come across, and ofcourse the scale suits my interests perfectly: this scale is IMHO the best possible for a merge of tactics and strategy. I would recommend to buy a title that suits your interests (personally I dislike titles that lack maneuver and are about reducing/holding a static defensive line), you wont be disappointed :) Also the Modern ones are also awesome, even if your main historical focus is WW2 ;)

The only other wargame I tried seriously was WiTE, which was a very enjoyable experience until I got frustrated with the bugs in the first year of release and the, what it seemed, inevitability of the course of the game.

About your questions:

- Keep in mind that a typical PzC game will last about 2 to 4 weeks for a FULL campaign. That's just 2 to 4 turns of WiTE. The game also focuses on active operations obviously ;)
- Losses, and recuperation of losses (and more importantly, fatigue), depend very much on the decisions both players make. For example, one of the most delicate decisions is being able to gauge whether or not keeping certain Bn's in contact is going to be beneficial to you, or just a waste of manpower and fatigue levels. Same thing with whether or not to move to contact in areas where you are not focusing efforts. A common mistake in PzC is exhausting divisions without getting any significant gains (because hey, you want your units to pew pew. Sometimes you should refrain from giving the shoot command :) ). Sometimes you need to have your divisions fight tooth and nail for a good reason (and these fights are awesome to manage), but having a standard practice of letting all your line units engage until they are spent is a good way of losing PzC games.