[WarInEur] Comment on Attrition

[sgminfo]

Kent & Sue Haunschild wrote:
>
>
> It was almost impossible in the SPI board game to duplicate the German 
> historic advances in the Ukraine.  With the severe weather rules it 
> isn't even theoretically possible.
>
> The German have a limited amount of time to accomplish their goals. 
> Attrition (and its operational pauses) robs them of the limited time 
> they do have.
>
> I think that we will find that the limited supply range, the automatic 
> exchange for OOS attacks, and the Soviet Ar subsitution result will 
> have to be turned off when playing with attrition.
>
> We will also probable have to scrap the First winter Axis 6-5 flips, 
> and give the axis the ability to convert Soviet rail in Snow turns for 
> play balance as well.  Otherwise we are going to find the entire Axis 
> army at about 95% attrition in Spring of 42 at it will take two cycles 
> minimum to get supply to them and get them restored to full strength 
> for a 42 offensive.

> Kent
>
>
Have been considering  this over the last couple of days. With the 
current crop of attrition effects, it seems to me that:-

1. We can scrap the "flip a 6-5 rule"

and
2. We can scrap the reduced range for supply rule in the first year.

3.We may even be able to scrap the chaining of MSUs rules.

A lot of these are simulated by the wear and tear on MSU rules.
OK it does not cater for the railheads, but that may, or may not, need 
any tampering with.

If it works then we may be somewhere along the line of developing a 
logistical system that may need no special bending to deal with the 
Eastern front in the first year. If the rules start to respond in effect 
like that, then it is more likely that the effects are becoming more 
fundamentally accurate...and cater better for the game without any 
awkward kludges.

It is by no means perfect, but it might make the fall of shot a little 
way nearer the real world approximation.

"Special" rules tend to indicate that the natural rules underpinning the 
simulation are not yet finalised, as they fail to accommodate some 
aspects of their role.

-|steve|-