Re: First Impressions
Posted: Sat May 12, 2018 10:16 am
Kuybyshev
This one gave me some troubles but I had a feeling there is room for tactical improvement on my side. Air Drop supply could support up to two mobile units outflanking but in that case they would be missed in combat and after first objective was cleared there was too much mopping up required which hampered further advance. So I used concentration of force up until closing to first objective and then released mobile groups. Total destruction of Soviet forces around first objective enabled me to be in good shape in front of second objective with some dispersion around flanks. Capture of Kuybyshev was confident on turn 14.
Foot infantry was lined around railroad as protection measure against partisans. Some force rearrangement was done from start by reorganizing Engineer specialist steps and giving them to tank and mobile infantry instead. Also some infantry regular steps from weakened unit were kept in reserve to maximize strength of mobile infantry. Infantry with towed equipment was placed far in advance because on next turn it can benefit from specialist step in attack before moving.
This scenario is rather long and has two phases so even if one is solved properly it can all go wrong in second phase. This to a certain degree gives feeling of wasted time during retries but at the end when I got Brilliant Victory I had feeling of accomplishment which was not the case with those ultra random scenarios. Probably because this one motivated me to dive deeper into combat mechanics.
Toggling of some UI elements was useful around last objective.
This one gave me some troubles but I had a feeling there is room for tactical improvement on my side. Air Drop supply could support up to two mobile units outflanking but in that case they would be missed in combat and after first objective was cleared there was too much mopping up required which hampered further advance. So I used concentration of force up until closing to first objective and then released mobile groups. Total destruction of Soviet forces around first objective enabled me to be in good shape in front of second objective with some dispersion around flanks. Capture of Kuybyshev was confident on turn 14.
Foot infantry was lined around railroad as protection measure against partisans. Some force rearrangement was done from start by reorganizing Engineer specialist steps and giving them to tank and mobile infantry instead. Also some infantry regular steps from weakened unit were kept in reserve to maximize strength of mobile infantry. Infantry with towed equipment was placed far in advance because on next turn it can benefit from specialist step in attack before moving.
This scenario is rather long and has two phases so even if one is solved properly it can all go wrong in second phase. This to a certain degree gives feeling of wasted time during retries but at the end when I got Brilliant Victory I had feeling of accomplishment which was not the case with those ultra random scenarios. Probably because this one motivated me to dive deeper into combat mechanics.
Toggling of some UI elements was useful around last objective.