How many losses is too many

Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: The German-Soviet War 1941-1945 is a turn-based World War II strategy game stretching across the entire Eastern Front. Gamers can engage in an epic campaign, including division-sized battles with realistic and historical terrain, weather, orders of battle, logistics and combat results.

The critically and fan-acclaimed Eastern Front mega-game Gary Grigsby’s War in the East just got bigger and better with Gary Grigsby’s War in the East: Don to the Danube! This expansion to the award-winning War in the East comes with a wide array of later war scenarios ranging from short but intense 6 turn bouts like the Battle for Kharkov (1942) to immense 37-turn engagements taking place across multiple nations like Drama on the Danube (Summer 1944 – Spring 1945).

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Raver508
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How many losses is too many

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Just wondering about this. I'm playing Germans in a game and have lost something like 1.6 million men. Its the start of 1942 and I'm roughly on the historic lines of advance (plus have Leningrad). Am I screwed?
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RE: How many losses is too many

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Not too badly. Depends a lot on what those losses are made up of...if there are many disabled, they will eventually return (tirckle back) so they are not total losses. The true total losses are the dead and the prisoners. Production will start ramiping up as well so don't lose heart.
 
BTW a lot of prisoners translate in a lot of Hiwis, that help a lot from Oct '41 by letting Germans transform support in rifle squads (as happened in real life). Also keep in mind that there are substantial allied reinforcements coming in '42, namely the Italian 8 Army (which is present approx for a year) and more importantly, a Hungarian army. The latter tend to by underestimated, but in '42 they actually become quite useful, especially since they can take over stretches of the line in quite sectors.
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