Rich Hamilton is taunting us

[Volcano Man]

In East Prussia '14 the Russians face an opponent with an excellent supply situation, whilst having a mediocre to bad one themselves. Though that might indeed be mostly historically accurate, there are many mechanics tied to supply which in EP '14 all work in favour of the Germans.

Yes, I am aware of what game mechanics are connected to supply. And I am perfectly fine with the behavior in general; it was certainly all factored into the decision making and balance.  These are not unknown observations here. Nor are any of these games perfect either. That is simply the nature of wargaming. But to suggest any sort of major supply level change to benefit the Russians in EP14 is just biased in my opinion, because then the Germans would have absolutely no chance at all to replicate anything close to historical (and arguably, they have a very slim chance as it is).

That said, we have made some great improvements to the FWWC engine (including the command system for brigade HQs as mentioned previously), and additional improvements to when and how much replacements are received. I have always felt that the issue with the replacements feature is that it gave too much strength back. This is greatly improved in the next title, because I can now customize the replacement level in a much more elegant way (allowing for decimal numbers and side specific modifiers).

All of these improvements will be carried over to F14 and EP14 in a future update. And in regards to EP14, the issue is NOT that Russians need to receive more replacements, its that the Germans should receive less replacements than they get, and this is justified considering that East Prussia was a secondary theater of operations to the Western Front, so had lower priority in receiving replacements. So, with less German replacements overall (via the new side specific modifier), then this would make it where they cannot totally disregard casualties anymore, which benefits the Russians in a more elegant way. Other than that, I am perfectly satisfied with how everything else is modeled now with all the improvements. The FWWC series continues to evolve.  

And now, its back to work for me... that is all I can say for now.