The Competition & Teaser Thread

[ComradeP]

Hmm, what Xaver mentions is another point that requires micromanagement which some might find tedious: even if you keep the support weapons stacked, they still have different movement rates. This would again possibly be a primarily German problem as the Soviet motorpool was less diverse in terms of vehicles used by certain unit types and their infantry divisions would rely even more on horse transports than the Germans.

For example, in the HW/support stack in the screenshot, the RSO's would be moving at about 30 kilometres per hour tops, the Sd.Kfz. 7's at 50 km/hour tops on roads but only about 20 km/hour off-road, the Opel Blitz and abstracted other trucks could move about 80 km/hour and about 20 km/hour in non-mud off-road conditions respectively.

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In addition to Xaver's comments on small unit vs. bigger unit performance: with unlimited return fire, smaller units are also at a disadvantage of sorts as more of them have to fire compared to larger units. Their fatigue would also increase more quickly. Concentrated fire to take the units out one by one could be quite effective, and when the PaK 40's are gone the Germans already lose a big chunk of their AT capabilities.

The survival chance of individual units composed of guns or a low number of vehicles might thus be lower than in PzC, which isn't necessarily problematic, it's just an observation. I wonder what kind of strategies the playtesters use to keep their opponents from cherry picking their best units off first.

As far as leaders, all regimental units and above (and in some cases battalions) have named leaders. The appropriate leader photos has been used where available. This means the order of battle has hundreds of historical leaders in the correct command slot. We first started this named leader approach in PzC Moscow '42.

The detail is appreciated.

All things considered, this thread should show the development team that at least the community over here is excited about the upcoming series.

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With the new hidden unit and spotting rules, as well as the various other changes, is it still possible to fire at units in unspotted hexes with indirect fire if the terrain blocks LOS but the visibility range would normally allow the unit to be spotted?

That's one of the minor annoyances of PzC for me: let's say an enemy unit is behind a woods hex and the visibility range is 2. If you move a unit into the woods hex (and back out in this case) to discover that there's a unit on the other side, or if you know there's a unit there, you can still target it with indirect fire even if artillery fire by the map is off. This unspotted fire can still cause considerable losses to the defender.