Matrix Games

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ORIGINAL: Michael T

IIRC somewhere over the years I read it takes 10 men in the rear to put one guy up the front with a loaded rifle. All these support squads in HQ's have a job to do.

It seems some people expect to disband tons of HQ's and set the remaining HQ's TOE's to 50% and expect the system to work. They think they can get 5 men in the rear to support 5 men up the front with rifles. Guess what what? It don't work. What he sows he shall reep. He made his bed, let him lie in it I say.

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ORIGINAL: Cannonfodder

Your right about the game being to forgiving in offensive situations. On top of that it punishes the units that are in contact with enemy units at the end of the turn (at the end of the week).

If the game would be consistent then any unit that has been in contact with the enemy in a given turn would take attrition losses, not the just the units that are in contact in the logistical turn execution.

Is this something that has been suggested?

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ORIGINAL: Flaviusx


Even down south with good supply you still have to shuffle units around from front to rear simply because rifits aren't guaranteed to work on the front line and units will not draw from the pools.

I get that replacements ought to be difficult at the ragged edge of an advance where logistics are strained at the breaking point. But the existing game engine makes replacement difficult in situations well short of that where it ought not be an issue at all.

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ORIGINAL: Michael T

Chicken Little strikes again

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ORIGINAL: Manstein63

In my opinion there shouldn't be an AP cost for going into & or out of static mode at all. What should happen is there is a gradual increase movement points over 3 turns

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ORIGINAL: Michael T

The point is Pelton every time something in one of your games gets out of whack your knee jerk reaction is to cry bug. Which results in wasting other peoples time to prove otherwise. When in the end it is just your own making through the settings you choose. The replacement system, whether good or bad has been unchanged now for some considerable time. Once again its WAD.

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ORIGINAL: Michael T

Pelton, of course discussing a mechanic of the game is acceptable. Thats what we do. But your first instinct is to cry bug. Thats my complaint.

If its discussion you want open a thread in the main folder. Not shoot from the hip about the game being bugged in the tech forum. This is not a tech issue. Never was.

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ORIGINAL: Kamil

Replacements situation (one of many shortcomings of game engine) massively spoils my current game and it fells like WitE should end in summer of '43. I am deeply disappointed, because my struggle against Mike was my most enjoyable encounter so far, but current system will soon take most of the pleasure away by imposing trench warfare and boring passive defence.


At the moment German player is forced abandon attack far to quickly because of designed snowball-effect.

I attack so I suffer loses and they won't properly be replaced. So to maintain momentum I need to weaken other parts of front handing initiative to Soviets everywhere but in area of attack.

My forces on the flanks get beaten so they suffered losses, but obviously they won't be replaced, so either I continue attacking and make situation on flanks even worse or I switch to defence and slowly rebuild forces what won't change anything, because by the time German forces regains strength Red Army will be too strong for any prolonged attempts to create pockets. Once it happens attacking stops being option for Germans, because loses ratio favours Soviet massively.

And it leads to constant withdrawal for one side, and dull grinding for the other.



Game is to be fun and WitE slowly stops providing it.

After removing +1 rule '42 was fun. Not so any more.




Having said that, I don't want to take anything from Mike who is playing better than me, but I need to add that current replacement system is not helping me at all and I feel this is factor that is tipping the scales.

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ORIGINAL: Kamil

Game is good and lively, but I find it irritating when I have 450k manpower in pool and my divisions melt-away.

Imagine situation when all of my divisions were 15 to 20% stronger. It would be the case if replacements were being send properly to the front.


I have lots of 2CV infantry divisions, that have morale in low 70s and I can't do anything to increase number of infantry squads.