ToxicThug11 wrote: ↑Fri Apr 15, 2022 10:27 am
In my game against jubjub (the best player I have ever had the pleasure of facing) I have to say I was surprised by the resolve of Axis ally divisions.
Here's some context for my picture: I was able to cross the major river at Kyiv. I then saw a relatively strong 10 CV Romanian unit which hasn't been involved in any fighting and must be quite well rested and combat prepared.
Turn 7, I am able to basically smash this division and inflict nearly 70% losses and the rest of the elements are mauled.
Then I am able to recross the same major river and man my fort.
What impressed me was the 265 losses I took. I'll have to be careful. If I attack another 100 times against Romanian divisions, my division may be completely depleted.
In all seriousness though this is absurd
Interesting. Here are some reasons the Romanian defense may have failed:
1. It's possible that the attack took place at night. As we all know, people sleep at night. Russians do not sleep. They can also see in the dark. It seems to me that the Romanians were wiped out in a daring night raid. 10 Romanian defensive CV essentially becomes 0. People need to sleep. And some people are hard to wake up.
2. You should note the amount of bombers in the attack. The Soviets have 1000 KG bombs.
It doesn't take a genius to work out that ten thousand Romanians may have all been clumped in one area, resulting in a massive rout as other Romanians feared being vaporized by precision bombing from strategic bombers.
3. The Germans made the classic error of trying to use Romanian troops. I've been playing this game a long time and I have found the best use of Romanians is to disband them and gather their trucks for useful resupply operations. You could even send them to the theater box where they can pretend to be useful, which will allow you to pull out real German divisions.
This attack was a bad move from the Soviet player. By attacking, he has reduced German supply problems in the area (10,000 less Romanian mouths to feed). It would've been much smarter in the long term to leave those Romanians on the frontline where they would continue to be "useful" to the Soviet player as a severe drain on Axis supply.
