sage2
10-12-2002, 10:10 PM
Freakin' bleedin' hell... The evil bastidge the design this Operaton should burn in torment for a good chunk of eternity (half?).
The Stuka that showed up dropped a (500kg?) bomb plop in the middle of a tank formation that had momentarily clustered to get through a bottle nectk. I lost 3 tanks destroyed and 3 imobilized and had about 80 infantry casualties. The surviving tankers were cleaning the gore off their tanks for a week afterwards.
Okay, I don't think he (Berli? Rune? I don't remember) should really suffer. It was great fun to play. :=)
Quick feedback:
I really enjoyed this op, but found it too easy. Despite being brutalized by the Stuka, I won a total victory the first battle, without needing recourse to the following battles.
It was actually pretty easy -- I saved my arty fire, moved infantry up each flank, dropped the arty fire, and hooked around each flank with my infantry (1 battalion to the left, 2 on the right). The anti-tank guns of the defenders were almost useless -- I infantry rushed them from different angles and took them all out with only a few casualties. My tanks provided a base of fire in the open area in the middle, but were unecessary to win the battle.
I think a 25-30 minute time limit per battle in the op would work a lot better. This would keep things a little more nerve wracking for the soviet player, and make such a slow and methodical approach useless.
Aside from the casualties I suffered from the frickin' stuka, and a platoon that got beatup by arty fire, it was almost bloodless for the soviets.
Sage
The Stuka that showed up dropped a (500kg?) bomb plop in the middle of a tank formation that had momentarily clustered to get through a bottle nectk. I lost 3 tanks destroyed and 3 imobilized and had about 80 infantry casualties. The surviving tankers were cleaning the gore off their tanks for a week afterwards.
Okay, I don't think he (Berli? Rune? I don't remember) should really suffer. It was great fun to play. :=)
Quick feedback:
I really enjoyed this op, but found it too easy. Despite being brutalized by the Stuka, I won a total victory the first battle, without needing recourse to the following battles.
It was actually pretty easy -- I saved my arty fire, moved infantry up each flank, dropped the arty fire, and hooked around each flank with my infantry (1 battalion to the left, 2 on the right). The anti-tank guns of the defenders were almost useless -- I infantry rushed them from different angles and took them all out with only a few casualties. My tanks provided a base of fire in the open area in the middle, but were unecessary to win the battle.
I think a 25-30 minute time limit per battle in the op would work a lot better. This would keep things a little more nerve wracking for the soviet player, and make such a slow and methodical approach useless.
Aside from the casualties I suffered from the frickin' stuka, and a platoon that got beatup by arty fire, it was almost bloodless for the soviets.
Sage