OldCrowBalthazor
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Joined: 7/2/2020 From: Republic of Cascadia Status: offline
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mdsmall, et al. First, I want to give credit to Crispy131313 and his excellent Fall Weiss mod for my small change to my homebrewed mod that was made for my personal use and a few of my buddies in my local club. If you want a solution to this, play his mod, and everything else is a moot point. However, what I did was very minor. The first thing I noticed playing (and seeing some examples of play) was that there was no movement of Finnish Forces into East Karelia...nor was it possible to do so..because there are No forces there to do so. Now, when the Finns decided in 1941 to join Germany on the attack on the Soviet Union, their primary reason was to take back that land lost after the Winter War. Simple as that. Cutting the Murmansk railroad and other considerations in theater were German ideas. Anyway, below is a list of units we added to the Finns and the Soviets to balance it out and satisfy my ocd on this subject. One additional note: The supply issues in East Karelia are severe, as they should be, and no changes were made to scripts or features to the map. Most of the roads are dirt, and in the summer of 41..the dust clouds of the advancing Finns could be seen for miles..even in that northern boreal. Add these as initial units, making sure to keep them west of the 41 line in case the Winter War is lost. Finland Town of Joensuu: HQ Oesch 1 hex south: Army (Karelian) 1 hex north: Corp 2 hex north: Div 2 hex south: Div 3 hex nw of Joensuu: Engineer (for Onega isthmus or Svir line) Town of Kajaani: Brigade (ski) Town of Kusamo: Brigade (ski) Town of Petsamo: Brigade Helsinki Port: MT Turku Port: CL Kemi Port: SS Soviet Union 1 hex south of Murmansk: Div Town of Segezrsk: Div Town of Kandalaska: Div Town of Petrozovodsk: Div If the additional Finns seem excessive, we haven't seen them rolling across the Murmansk RR easily or rounding Lake Ladoga. We have had big battles to take Petrozovodsk or trying to reach Kem on the lower margins of the White Sea. The Brigades are weak But they have been used to raid and break tenuous supply lines of advancing Soviets in the middle of the front. Mind you, unless there is deeper editing, if playing against the AI Soviet, those Red Army divisions screening the Murmansk railway tend to get taken away to a fate worst then the boredom of wilderness garrison duty.
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