[WarInEur] CWIE-2 Placement thoughts

sgminfo sgminfo at aol.com
Fri Jul 27 11:06:29 EDT 2007


In terms of ease of use...

A thought.

Particularly with the Soviets.

Would it not make for significant savings in time and effort, if the 
reinforcements are deployed entirely by random pro rata deployments of 
units in their placement hexes by the computer?

We have, effectively, a lot of pointless chasing around to placement 
hexes/centers for minimal effect in the game. With attrition options in 
force this is doubly so. It would reduce the admin overhead 
significantly for the players, and despite the niceties of the situation 
effectively under BWIE-1 with the length of time it took to train things 
like 2-5s and 3-5s thence into 8-6s and 9-6s the tactical situation 
usually bore no relationship with the envisaged one, so the effect of 
moving the admin overhead is a bonus, wheras the tactical effect would 
be both more relistic and almost minimalist, in terms of the war.

The latter stages of 1944-45 were full of instances of units arriving 
almost at random in the chaos of the Reich , to the consternation of 
field commanders. i.e. production planning worked at an international 
scale,but was a singularly fragmented mess at the level of the Gauleiters...



-|steve|-


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