TSPC37730

Have to chime in with a number of others here - seems there are a tad too many "5's" out there for tech advances - especially for 1943. Don't know if the developers have already though of it, but, one thing I've come up with would be to "cap" the number of highest level units for the first turns after a tech breakthough was made. Limit the upgrades to 1-2 units. This could be gradually increased, simulating a ramp in production. Another idea that could work alongside this would be to adjust the size of the cap depending upon the level of the tech advance. For level 1 or 2, no big deal, a nominal cap & you can upgrade lots of units to those levels in fairly short order. For level 3, a more noticeable cap. At level 4 things would get pretty scarce. For level 5, units would be ultra-rare. Another thought is a temporary drop in organization/readiness to go along with an upgrade, to simulate getting the new weapons out, the training of the crews & unforseen problems. Think Panthers before Kursk. My apologies if somebody's come up with this stuff already... I'll be sure to drop my cheque for 2 cents in the mail later today...

Attacking Russia (ok the Soviet Union) early carries it's own penalties for the Axis, namely, there is less time & fewer turns of MPP income to build up units prior to the attack. There's also a need to rush units across Europe from France. No matter what you do, you go in with a smaller force. Further, this takes alot of pressure off the Brits - case in point in this AAR since there was never much action in North Africa & now it's completely in Allied hands. Yugoslavia lingered for quite some time as well...

Graphics guys, graphics... Gotta have the illustrated version of the story here. Thanks! I'm curious to see how it will all turn out.

How is the rule book (pdf?) for the game? I'll need to figure out how supply works & how the artillery units interact before I can offically lose a game or two...

My first post here... I've just spent a good chunk of time reading through this entire thread. I own Strategic Command Blitzkrieg as well as a number of other PC games. I like the scale of this one & look forward to scoring a copy. Thanks in advance to everyone who is putting it all together.