Minsk '44 Team Game Opening

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What's unrealistic about the ability to target the locations without a direct line of sight for any ground forces? The idea is to be able to perform harassment & interdiction fires on suspected enemy focal points - like river crossings and FUPs - or enable the air force to run their operations on their own by enabling the aerial reconnaissance. Lots of folks are afraid of that due to the cheaters who - according to what I have heard - used to peek into the enemy forces prior to the game and bomb the hell out of the units already present on the map in travel mode deep in the rear - at least that is the only explanation I have ever heard about this rule. Limited air recon which I also ticked prevents that completely. In practice mostly it's not used at all, even by me, because there are always lots of targets in sight and if not, it's good to rest the men and equipment a bit and conserve the ammo.I just like to open those options which I really do think support realism. I also used to use alternative computing for fires, assaults and airstrikes - Soviets did take huge losses in the Eastern Front - but indeed it tipped the balance way much more into the German favour than reasonable for the sake of gameplay - so I don't use it anymore.

Regarding "Delayed Reporting ..." -come on, it's a campaign scenario, there'll be plenty of time to make the most of reconnaissance and if You still want to be quick - figure it out when to attack headlong and when not as each good field commander does. It is realistic, at least in theory unless a nasty game engine mechanism I don't know of spoils it. The situation changes form title to title and I have never played any Minsk '44 scenarios.