[WarInEur] SPI & War in Europe

[Karl Gaarsoe]

(Response to the comment about supply range in the East)
   
  Kent, 
  Sorry to be so murky but.... 
Your opinion is almost as good as mine. (Depends on how good your Russian is).
  I
  t's a situation where there is "no data";  I think (IIRC) the six hex limit is in War in The East (2nd) Edition, the question was should this apply to BWiE campaing games....
   
  Neil, being a good Bourgeouis Falsifyer, didn't think so.  
   
  Me- well, the Russians have enough probems.  Same with my efforts to impose limitations on German Air efforts in the east;  I have not seen the DG rules, doubt anything made it into it.
   
  But this does effect the whole production strategic dynamic.  OK, it is hard to encourage players to fly outnumbered;  But if the Axis is not suffering a steady trickle of AP losses in 1940/41/42, they "build the Box Out" sometime in (At least for AP) 1942.
   
  Hey, who cares if the Russians have trouble launching offensives in 1943 because they can't get any air support.  Which means not many dead Germans, so the German Front Line is three deep (high) by late 1943 (One Mcz, two 6-5);  Try and even put a Soviet Offensive together against that kind of Defense.  And again, no attritional losses (to the Germans).
   
  (The German player looks around, "where is the Soviet Artillery?"  Then retreat one Hex most of the time).
   
  But that's the way most of the campaign games Neil et. al. played went.  And several of mine.  And a lot of Germans STILL lost interest after 1943.
   
  The "Division Cadre Rule" was my effort to partially plug that hole with a simple to implement mechanic.  Crude, but it works.  In my entire playing life I have overun only a handful of Geman KG (Five?).
   
  Karl Gaarsoe
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