lhughes41

You guys are doing a great job getting across your strategy and thinking. Why is Russian armor cheaper? Built in or some tech? If built in was that always the case in Sc2?

Were the soviet air force and tank so far forward because they were locked? Like the idea of locked units. Allows soveits caught offbalance. In WAW I would ahistorically keep almost all Soviet units except road blocks back.

OK let's see how the surfing goes! Really enjoying this AAR

Thanks for replying. What I was really reacting to was the Nazi-Soviet pact not being signed and the earlier Soviet mobilization (i.e. higher MMPs).. if I understand correctly.. so maybe you have to wait till 1941 regardless but boy its seems like the soviets will be strong by then! I hear you thought.. it's all about "catching the wave"

I predict an Allied victory. The Soviets have been building up way too long. That's if the Soviets are very careful about preserving their army :-)

Does Oil play any role in this scenario other then another source of RPs (or whatever $$ are called in the game?).

2nd that. but with all fixes you were planning of course ;-)

Happy to see that the go for France in 39 (and Poland) has costs.

Thanks Bill. Very encouraging decisions: 1) Force Pool Size -- the WWI and this scenario potential downside for me was increase scale and time.. SC already took a fair commitment of time anyway :-) (though not like Grigsby games ;-) ). So this is welcom news. You might want to suggest making this aspect clearer when promoting the game since definitely influence my buying decision. A lot of turn based gamers are probably have families and this would matter! 2) Anti-air unit upgrades -- this is great news 3) Garrison -- like the mechanism Any other new features spring to mind? You are definitely getting me in the buying mode. I hope you'all will organize a tournament after release. I want to have my fanny kicked by folks like you'all and SeaMonkey. I got "decent" at one point and need to be humiliated by masters ;-)

Thanks for all the quick answers. One more question (for now ;-) ). How long would you say a turn in this finer grain scenario takes then older European Theater SCs? 2x's as long? about the same in practice? Curious.

First, thanks for doing this. Seems like a most interesting match. I played a fair bit of the pre Global games, but was turned off by descriptions of Japanese engineers in France and and Japanese invasions of UK.. so did not buy the global. But I am thinking about getting back into SC now that there is a European Theater focused scenario (also would like to try WWI). So this is a very timely AAR! Now a few questions and comments: -- Days of Decision -- this would be a wonderful addition to SC. So I second SeaMonkey's advise here. The board game "Totaler Krieg" does an nice module on this as an illustration of what can be done. -- Poland/Lithuania -- as a followup to the last point I noticed a mention of USSR attacking due to Lithuania pact option. From what I've read of the history of that pact Lithuania as German was originally going to be a part of the pact and Stalin would get more of Poland. So a bit surprised on Lithuania going to Axis yielding a war... comments? -- Air Power -- in pre Global Tactical Air Power seemed quite overpowering. I always had to focus the soviets on anti-aircraft and then airpower to try to stay alive. I noticed comments recently to the same effect about Global. So I'm curious as to why the German player here has decided to treat Air as a 2ndary tech objective (I know tech in general is secondary for him...understood.. but within tech he says Air is still secondary as well). Does this mean tac air is less powerful in this scenario? That would be welcome news. -- National Morale -- I've read on how National Morale impacts WWI game. I don't recall it being present in pre-Global. Can you speak to it's impact in this scenario please? -- Moscow -- sounds like Moscow is central to victory or defeat for USSR in this game. True? I don't recall clearly it being absolutely key in the earlier SCs but maybe I have forgotten. France winter -- I'm also not too keen on the whole 'conquer france in 39 to 40' from a history standpoint and it always seems to be a big advantage in SC. Getting France early pays off big. I'd like to see winter toughened perhaps. Just a comment. Or at least you can't take down poland and france in this period. One or the other. Thanks guys!