Kuniworth

Already from 1941 Stalin ordered "not a step back", the formal order at Stalingrad did not make a difference. There is unfortunately a misunderstanding of the war in 1942 that the Red Army fell back towards the Volga to make a stand. That is not the case, the Red Army counterattacked during fall blau and sought to halt the invader numerous times during the later half of 1942.

Hubert you got PM.

I think the map is so large that you should in another patch change the name of unit types. Armies should be renamed corps. And corps should be renamed to divisions.

LOL! What's the timeline?

Hubert while you're at it, look into SC3 a bit further and hook me up as ww2 details consultant. I will not charge a penny and be glad to help.

Well the game is not only about MMP it's also a game of position. Even income means axis advantage as the allies are split in three majors with tech advances not combined. I'm sticking my chin out a bit here as the allies might win the game but it seems to me that Russia is too weak. It might be the flaw of no penalty for disregarding the molotov-pact but Germany has advance too far cosidering it was just a limited offensive in the south to begin with. When Germany did not use the wide space to overwhelm inferior red army formations the russians should have been able to contain barbarossa.

Seems like that no molotov-pact penalty seriously shifted balance in this AAR. Russia is too weak.

Replica in real size of the horsa glider at the pegasus-museum The reason it's called the pegasusbride: named after the british paratrooper-symbol This is a sign from Juno beach where the canadians landed with slight casualties and made good progress. At the beach is a museum that tells the story of Canada in world war 2. Well that's it. If you are interested in ww2 I can tell you that Normandy is a must see along with Auschwitz and Volgograd that I visited before. Tons of museums and things to see and all very well preserved. For people here D-day continues to bear massive presence in their lives. In Caen a british memorial garden was recently opened to commemorate the british forces that liberated the city. And streets are named after Eisenhower etc.

American cemetary with 10,000 dead from the Normandy-campaign. Located at Omaha-beach just above on the hills. Very well looked after and security seems to be high for whatever reason. This is where the opening scene of the movie saving privat ryan was filmed. All crosses are put in perfectly straight rows... Pointe du Hoc: it was here the 2nd ranger batallion moved up the cliffs to capture the german gun positions. When you see it in real life it's hard to imagine the rangers getting to the top at all, it's very steep. Crater from what appears to be battleship bombardment at pointe du hoc. There is clear evidence that battle has taken place, the whole area is complettly littered with craters of different sizes. There must have been hell for the german defenders going through that. This is the pegasus-bridge at Ranville that the british paratroopers captured in a glider-assault. Extremly skillfully executed. There is an excellent museum at the spot that is simply world class. Prince Charles is presenting the museum in a video so the british state apperently put a lot of effort to make this one a honorable tribute to the veterans.

This is from Longues Ser mer where wehrmacht had deployed a battery to control both Gold beach(to the east) and Omaha beach(just to the west). It's some of few remaining guns of the atlantic wall. Omaha-beach. Not much remains of the ferocious battles that raged at parts of this beach. Today it seems to be very popular to visit, lots of people there. Note that this picture is taken during ebb so the beach-area was much narrower at june 6th, 1944 when it was flow. One example of many monuments and memorial that litters the Normandy cities and villages. This tells us that on this spot at Omaha beach the 56th field artillery landed.

Hey guys! thought I share some pics from this summers ww2 trip. I went to Normandy to visit the landing sites and it was very interesting to see it more than 65 years later, the coast is beautiful. Here are some pics and comments: This is looking towards Gold beach from Arromanches. It was here the british landed and built the mulberry harbour. Arromanches got a brilliant museum and is commercialised so if you go you can buy all kind of souvenirs here. Arromanches. You can see remnants of the Mulberry and the pontons further out that was sunk to create the walls of the harbour. Arromanches hails the 231st brigade that lliberated the village. At the museum in Arromanches: Real Sherman M4A2 at display outside Arromanches museum. Belonged to Leclerc's 2nd armoured division, it's in good condition.

Dare I say that much of the credit goes to you Bill for excellent scenario design. However I'm still waiting for you all to get SC3 going. Tell me what you need and I fix it, I can make a scenario if you want or help with command ratings etc. Just get the h*ll moving!

Any news on sc3? Will it happen, is there a work in progress going on?

In fact the whole tech tree should have a pretty fixed time to get things. Would be more strategy if you knew that investing would give you an invention in a certain time give or take some minor delays. This is vital to industry. It should not be a question of chance if you gear up for war. You should now that if I put this much effort into it I would know I get my investment back. Do you honestly think that during the world wars, any nation would gear up industry without knowing the time to it and what the effects would be?

It had to be important as it was vital also during ww2.

Cheer leader stuff is not working on me. I want my hexes.

Give me something dammit. How long the wait? Have you started working on it?

Yes I also agree the sc3 might be rescued. Bill can you give us some positive inside thoughts on sc3???

I don't see why a fortress should defend equally good encircled as not encircled. No point cutting off enemy cities and fortresses then. Both Corregidor and Brest-Litovsk held out for some time yes, but they did not stay as strong instead they got weaker. In SC they never get weaker which is absurd.

That is already simulated through supply level and morale. Problem is a unit can rebuild to 10 over and over again. That makes it dull. Units cut off from friendly lines in fortressess and cities should not be able to reinforce. A cut off unit in open terrain is canon fodder and the same should apply for all encircled units. They should not be able to reinforce.

units cut off from the supply sources, regardless of being in cities, forts or else should not be able to reinforce. And you should not have to use 8 units to keep a surrounded units from reinforcing above 5r. All in all, cut off units are cut off from supply and reinforcements. Then if the surrounded unit wants to break out it can of course try it so and then it becomes the question if the enemy guarded the encirclement well enough. But that is another question.

Well but as there is no possibility of airsupply how come units survive and can reinforce in forts?

At least they should not be able to reinforce. You should not have to completly surround a unitwith 8 units to stop it from reinforcing.

Al, in my battle for russia mod there is trouble with scripting this as we are talking about hundreds of units. And also not all should pop up next to a resource. Anyhow another feature that is weird is how resilient enenmy forces is to encirclement. Say you cut off an enemy army in a fort. The enemy can keep fighting and reinforce despite no connection with the rest of the enemy's lines. The units value should begin to drop immediately but doesn't.

Bill: If it's impossible to rebuild units would work as well. As long as you can start a scenario with them and then not be able to rebuild.