Eliminating Routed Units.

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.

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Champagne
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Eliminating Routed Units.

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Is there some tactic or technique for eliminating Routed enemy units, rather than merely Displacing them?

My question arises as I review my own Noob play and ponder ways that I could improve Axis progress during the opening turns of the Grand Campaign.

I think that a Routed unit takes more losses every time it displaces, so, perhaps pursuit of them is sufficient. Still, if the "core" of the Routed unit escapes, it's easier for the Soviet to form a better "new" unit from that core, I think, based on my reading of the manual.

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RE: Eliminating Routed Units.

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the only way to manage this is to encircle them but not to move adjacent. The next turn they are 'isolated' and thus eliminated if beaten in combat.

Probably only really feasible on T1-2 when there should be decent gaps in the Soviet lines so you can try to sweep around displaced units.

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If you surround them and they do not recover from the rout, they automatically surrender in your initial phase. So you would not even have to move adjacent to them or attack them.
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RE: Eliminating Routed Units.

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For my purposes as Axis vs. AI, I try to apply pressure all along each front and do not chase any particular unit to destruction. One gets plenty of destroyed units and opponents total losses are enormous. Strategy for Axis requires early acquisition of big population & industrial centers (L'grad, Moscow, S'grad) and then the Russian will fall through attrition.
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