Matrix Games

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Really it's just ridiculous looking.

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ORIGINAL: jjdenver

Honestly the triple/quadruple/quintuple line carpets on display here make me a bit nauseous. I really doubt this is what the game designers had in mind and it's spectacularly gamey to see this sort of play.

Is there anything planned to get rid of the carpet syndrome and the huge density of units in the game? Really it's just ridiculous looking.

Sigh.

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ORIGINAL: Encircled

Probably a daft question, but is there any value to having a hex between your defensive lines, rather than just a carpet of forts?

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Seminole


German losses were about 1600 to 19500 russian loses.
12 to 1 ratio. Not sure what that was all about, but I will take it.

OMG!
Obviously the game is completely broken!
This is a flying pig result and shows that the devs are all closet nazi sympathizers!
Or somefink.

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Flaviusx


Kamil, how many artillery divisions have you got? Looking at your combats, it seems you're kind of light on guns in a lot of them. I would be making fewer attacks with more guns concentrated on them and try to trash forts on a concentrated sector of the front as rapidly as possible. Literally pile on 30 odd artillery divisions in the Ukraine, and add 3 or more per attack. If you can blow up 10 odd forts a turn, the Axis will have a tough time maintaining the integrity of the fort belt. That's 40 APs right there, not including expenses involved in building FRs in hexes that will need to be abandoned when a line becomes untenable due attacks nearby.

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ORIGINAL: Kamil

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Flaviusx


Kamil, how many artillery divisions have you got? Looking at your combats, it seems you're kind of light on guns in a lot of them. I would be making fewer attacks with more guns concentrated on them and try to trash forts on a concentrated sector of the front as rapidly as possible. Literally pile on 30 odd artillery divisions in the Ukraine, and add 3 or more per attack. If you can blow up 10 odd forts a turn, the Axis will have a tough time maintaining the integrity of the fort belt. That's 40 APs right there, not including expenses involved in building FRs in hexes that will need to be abandoned when a line becomes untenable due attacks nearby.

Not to many art divisions. I have to confess I considered them not really useful so I focused all my AP on creating hordes of corps and now I am changing my C&C.

One thing makes me wonder - each corps have 1 sap regiment, should I add one more at expense of tanks?

At the moment only problem is AP. I have 3M manpower and 800k armament in pool. (not to mention few thousands of tanks)

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We were static for 18 months and German morale was forsed lower and russian morale lifted up, for no reason other then a random number coded into game engine.

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The impact of bombing on German morale was significant according to Professor John Buckley. Around a third of the urban population under threat of bombing had no protection at all. Some of the major cities saw 55-60 percent of dwellings destroyed. Mass evacuations were a partial answer for six million civilians, but this had a severe impact on morale as German families were split up to live in difficult conditions. By 1944 absenteeism rates of 20-25 percent were not unusual and in post-war analysis 91 percent of civilians stated bombing was the most difficult hardship to endure and was the key factor in the collapse of their own morale.[/link] The United States Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that the bombing was not stiffening morale but seriously depressing it; fatalism, apathy, defeatism were apparent in bombed areas. The Luftwaffe was blamed for not warding off the attacks and confidence in the Nazi regime fell by 14 percent. Some 75 percent of Germans believed the war was lost in the spring of 1944, owing to the intensity of the bombing.

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ORIGINAL: Seminole

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We were static for 18 months and German morale was forsed lower and russian morale lifted up, for no reason other then a random number coded into game engine.

The change in national morale actually abstracts the growing understanding among Germans that Germany was again trapped in a no-win, two front war.  You're dismissing the context of the War in the East.
The losses in Africa, invasion of Italy, and beginning of the bombing of the German homeland, none of these served to raise German morale.  In '43 the Americans were firebombing Hamburg.

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The impact of bombing on German morale was significant according to Professor John Buckley. Around a third of the urban population under threat of bombing had no protection at all. Some of the major cities saw 55-60 percent of dwellings destroyed. Mass evacuations were a partial answer for six million civilians, but this had a severe impact on morale as German families were split up to live in difficult conditions. By 1944 absenteeism rates of 20-25 percent were not unusual and in post-war analysis 91 percent of civilians stated bombing was the most difficult hardship to endure and was the key factor in the collapse of their own morale.[/link] The United States Strategic Bombing Survey concluded that the bombing was not stiffening morale but seriously depressing it; fatalism, apathy, defeatism were apparent in bombed areas. The Luftwaffe was blamed for not warding off the attacks and confidence in the Nazi regime fell by 14 percent. Some 75 percent of Germans believed the war was lost in the spring of 1944, owing to the intensity of the bombing.

- der wiki

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ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

Apples and oranges with that wiki link

Regardless of what the people at home were feeling, the actual combat troops were ever more determined to fight as hard as possible, especially in the east according to von Luck, Guderian and Mellenthin.

National morale on the counter itself does not really mean national morale of the nation. I would think of it more as Proficiency, experience, cohesion or something along those lines.

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ORIGINAL: gingerbread

I won't call it gaming, but it makes me more than a little uneasy when a tactic is based on placing an unfillable demand on a limited synthetic resource (Admin points).

Maybe forts should prevent decay in adjacent hexes - they do allow level 3, so they already have a ranged effect.

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ORIGINAL: Pelton

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ORIGINAL: Baelfiin

Apples and oranges with that wiki link

Regardless of what the people at home were feeling, the actual combat troops were ever more determined to fight as hard as possible, especially in the east according to von Luck, Guderian and Mellenthin.

National morale on the counter itself does not really mean national morale of the nation. I would think of it more as Proficiency, experience, cohesion or something along those lines.

The game engine over all is far far to dependent on a random NM #. If you have ever served in war the only thing you care about are the guys in your unit.

The CV in general is to hung up on NM. I would have to find the posts, but I beleive 1/3 of the formula for cv is based on morale.

Flaviusx I am sure can answer this with out me wasting 3 hrs to find out what Hapless posted or pmed me.

Pelton

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German troops did not surrender in mass until early 45.

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If the German player is doing far better then historical there is no reason based on facts to forse german morale down.

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The English poeple's morale went up when they were bombed.

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National morale on the counter itself does not really mean national morale of the nation. I would think of it more as Proficiency, experience, cohesion or something along those lines.