ORIGINAL: BigAnorak
IMHO the December transition is warranted by historical evidence
Historically there were less KIA in December than there were in July, also there were 122,000 casualties from frostbite. The current game modelling ignores this completely and increases KIA and Disabled by a factor of 4x the historical numbers, because the designers chose to use a particular set of variables to achieve the overall desired result, now when the same set of variables are used to reflect the situation in March, it should be no surprise that less/better than historical results are being achieved.
I am not saying there is not a problem, I am just asking that the same degree of testing and adjustment takes place for the March "problem" as took place for the December "problem". Much of the knee-jerk reaction to December was misplaced. The same could be happening in March.
You might well be right on the numbers, yet December saw a dramatic shift in the initiative from the Axis to the Soviets, and the game simulates that fairly well. IMHO more of the shift should be due to supply related factors than to "artificial" winter rules, but still, the effect is OK I think.